Markun, Leo
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With us, just as with savages and barbarians, there is an inner circle of relatives with whom we may not mate, an outer circle beyond which we may not go. Thus, in modern civilized countries, brothers do not marry sisters, mothers do not marry sons. There are jurisdictions in which the marriage of first cousins is forbidden. As to the outer circle, it sometimes engirdles the whole of humanity. We are, however, familiar with narrower limits, since we have in the United States laws forbidding white people to…- 7.7 K • Completed
- In recent years, much publicity has been given to the prevalence of infant and child marriages in India. This particular indiscretion of Mother India is, at any rate, not very new. The Law of Manu, which was established perhaps three thousand years ago, provides that a father may marry his eight-year-old daughter to a man of twenty-four and his daughter of twelve to a man of thirty. But, in truth, the usual age of marriage for females has gone down in modern times, though it is now tending to go up…
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- Our young people seem to be fully capable of choosing their own mates. At any rate, they feel that they are, and they deeply resent interference on the part of others. Such a condition has not always existed. It does not exist everywhere even now. For one thing, parental authority means comparatively little in twentieth-century America. Mothers and, to a lesser extent, fathers, are honored chiefly by the singing of sentimental songs and the giving of useless presents on certain days of the year. In…
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