What is Marriage ?

Marriage is a binding relationship between two people who are recognized by the civil authorities and / or bound by religious beliefs of the participants. This dual nature, which is binding legal contract and the promise of morality, marriage is difficult be cause.

In one form or another, marriage is found in almost every community. The oldest records that refer to marriage say that marriage is a custom sound. Although anthropologists have tried to detect the origin of marriage, such as the primitive random sexual hypothesis, they have failed to obtain any evidence.

In the Western world, marriage is traditionally understood as a monogamous kesedudukan between a man (husband) and woman (wife), while in parts of the rest of the world, polygamy was a general biasa.Secara forms of marriage, society's view of the concept of polygamy is when a husband has more than one isteri.Sebenarnya in anthropology, the concept that most accurately describes a husband who has more than one wife is polygyny, while describing the concept of a wife who has more than one man is polyandry. Polygamy usually takes the form of polygyny (a man with many wives), but a very small number of people allow polyandry (a woman has many husbands).