significance of marriage
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Significance of Marriage as Social Institution in Indian English Writings
The institution of marriage is the central draft of all the forms of human society which are a part of civilization. Marriage is the deepest as well as the most complex of all human relations because it is a difficult task for two people to lead their life together when they have their independent thinking and way of living. In Indian life, role expectations are highly specific and institutional in marriage, thus a woman’s role in family has remained multifarious.
Marriage and family, as a set of institutions, also encompass formal and informal, objective and subjective aspects. Family is a fundamental building block of all human civilization. Marriage is the glue that holds it together. The health of culture, its citizens and thei children ultimately link to the success of marriage. The paper projects the marriage as a social institution in various writings of Indian English writers, which supports the social acceptance of marriage as a social institution through literature.
Meaning and Purpose
Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God, who created male and female in his image, so that they might become one body and might be fertile and multiply. Though man and woman are equal as God’s children, they are created with important differences that allow them to give themselves and to receive the other as a gift.
Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation. What is more, the Catholic Church teaches that the valid marriage between two baptized Christians is also a sacrament – a saving reality and a symbol of Christ’s love for his church. In every marriage the spouses make a contract with each other. In a sacramental marriage the couple also enters into a covenant in which their love is sealed and strengthened by God’s love.
The free consent of the spouses makes a marriage. From this consent and from the sexual consummation of marriage a special bond arises between husband and wife. This bond is lifelong and exclusive. The marriage bond has been established by God and so it cannot be dissolved.
In the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the priest or deacon, the two official witnesses, and the congregation all witness the exchange of consent by the couple who themselves are considered to be the ministers of the sacrament. In the Eastern Churches the sacrament is conferred by the priest’s blessing after receiving the couple’s consent.
Permanency, exclusivity, and faithfulness are essential to marriage because they foster and protect the two equal purposes of marriage. These two purposes are growth in mutual love between the spouses (unitive) and the generation and education of children (procreative).
The mutual love of a married couple should always be open to new life. This openness express powerfully in the sexual union of husband and wife. The power to create a child with God is at the heart of what spouses share with each other in sexual intercourse. Mutual love includes the mutual gift of fertility. Couples who are not able to conceive or who are beyond their child-bearing years can still express openness to life. They can share their generative love with grandchildren, other children and families, and the wider community.
The Importance of Being Married
New research suggests that a good marriage is good for your health – and that a bad one can be a real heartbreaker.
There are many good reasons to choose wisely and carefully when picking a spouse – not the least of which is that you will be spending an awful lot of time with them in both the near and distant future, possibly even raising children together.
So you want to find someone with whom you are compatible, share values – someone who makes you happy. But perhaps one of the most compelling reasons to make an informed choice is that your spouse can affect your physical health in very direct, measurable ways.
“The choice of spouse is one of the most significant you will make in your life; it is more serious than choosing a house or anything,” says Brian Baker, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto. “There is nothing like a good, solid marriage.”
Here are 5 reasons that explain the importance of marriage.
1. Beginning
Marriage is the beginning—the beginning of the family—and is a life-long commitment. It also provides an opportunity to grow in selflessness as you serve your wife and children. Marriage is more than a physical union; it is also a spiritual and emotional union. This union mirrors the one between God and His Church.
2. Oneness
When a man and woman get married, the “two become one.” Marriage is a bond like no other. It gives us a life partner, a teammate, as we move through the challenges of life together.
3. Purity
Purity designed marriage. We face temptation nearly every minute and from all directions. The bond of marriage gives us the support to defeat temptation by engaging in deep, satisfying love—a love that gives to, and receives from, our mate physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
4. Parenting
Whenever a marriage produces a child or receives a child through adoption, it is one of life’s greatest blessings. Roughly 40% of children raise today are in a home without a father. The effects of that fact are staggering. Father absence causes increases in mental and behavioral disorders as well as criminal activity and substance abuse. But when children are raised in a healthy marriage, they get a front row seat to see and experience the lasting benefits of a strong family.
5. Love
Marriage design to mirror our Creator’s unconditional love for us. It is a love that will always be there and will never leave us or forsake us. When a man and woman love one another unconditionally, contentment and joy follow.
7 REASONS MARRIAGE IS IMPORTANT
1. YOU SHARE YOUR LIFE WITH SOMEONE
2. IT TEACHES LOVE
You may begin your marriage by being head-over-heels in love but with time, you will have to learn how to love. And there is nothing more beautiful than loving intentionally. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it does not easily anger, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. However, where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will still; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”
3. IT IS HEALTHY FOR THE NATION
4.Makes you happier
The benefits or joys of single life may overrate. Experts believe that marriage improves health and financial satisfaction. A study using data from 17 developed nations has shown that being married was associated with significantly higher levels of happiness relative to cohabitation, and marriage increases happiness equally among men and women.
5. Improves life expectancy
Proponents of marriage believe that married people live longer and healthier lives. Statisticians Bernard Cohen and I-Sing Lee compiled a catalog of mortality risks, including marital status, occupational risks, socioeconomic factors, geography, diseases, substance abuse, and various other factors. They concluded that unmarried is one of the most significant health risks that people voluntarily subject themselves to.
6.May save your life
Experts believe that marriage associate with a lower risk of mortality in adults. Various studies have demonstrated that the chances of survival after major surgeries, such as cardiac surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), may be better among married people than unmarried people.
7.Makes the community better
It observe that married people have more civic responsibility and are more likely to volunteer in community service. In addition, they more likely involve in schools and churches.
Marriage confers several benefits. It helps improve different aspects of an individual’s life, including emotional, social, economic, physical, and mental health. When couples commit to marriage, they often become equally stronger and more secure.