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MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE. MARRIAGE. How many of you would like to become married on completing school? Can you give reasons why you would like to become married?. SURVEY. MARRIAGE. What is marriage in our society?. FORMS OF MARRIAGE. Monogamy --------------------. MARRIAGES.

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MARRIAGE

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  1. MARRIAGE

  2. MARRIAGE • How many of you would like to become married on completing school? • Can you give reasons why you would like to become married?

  3. SURVEY

  4. MARRIAGE • What is marriage in our society?

  5. FORMS OF MARRIAGE • Monogamy --------------------

  6. MARRIAGES • Which forms of marriage is practiced in your society? • A legal marriage takes different forms. • Monogamy – the marriage of one man to one woman (as in the Caribbean, USA, Britain)

  7. MARRIAGE • Polygamy – a generalized term for the custom of having more than one spouse at a time.

  8. MARRIAGE • Polygyny – customs of one man having two or more wives (as in Muslim societies eg. Egypt)

  9. MARRIAGE • iv. Polyandry – custom of one woman having two or more husbands (as the Sinhalese of Sri Lanka)

  10. MARRIAGE • It is important to note that the society one lives in, to a large extent determines the form of marriage that is practiced. • In our Caribbean societies for example, if a man marries another woman while he is still married to his first wife, he would be considered a bigamist. • Bigamy is a crime punishable by law.

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