Personal opinion about trial marriage.

Posted by Matthew
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Nov 11, 2008
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Good idea.
Just don't consider having children until you know for sure you are solid and good parents.

"Some Eskimos, American Indians, Icelanders Africans, Arabs, and Sinhalese practiced trial
marriage. The length of the trial ranged from a single visit, as among the Chippewa’s, to a
one-year period, as among the Icelanders.

Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, suggests a two-stage marriage. The first stage,
individual marriage, would involve a commitment between two people, who would agree not
to have children. Easy to dissolve, individual marriage would last as long as both spouses
wanted it to. The second stage, parental marriage, based on the intent to have children,
would involve far more; the couple would have to show that they could support a child, would
go through a formal ceremony, and would be expected to stay together for life. Bertrand
Russell--philosopher, mathematician, and iconoclast--believed in a similar arrangement. "

http://www.apsense.com/article/124067.html

All cohabitation is not 'trial marriage', people live together for all kinds of reasons.
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