...This chapter focuses on the debate over homosexual marriage. It examines two revolutionary clauses of the National Family Security Act that cleared the way toward making a reality of what had until then been an impossible dream: universal marriage. The first is the child purity provision, popularly...

...This chapter focuses on the debate over homosexual marriage. It examines two revolutionary clauses of the National Family Security Act that cleared the way toward making a reality of what had until then been an impossible dream: universal marriage. The first is the child purity provision, popularly...

... – in Asia, early marriages, universal marriage, positive checks, parental authority (e.g. Malthus, Hajnal, Wrigley/Schofield, Macfarlane, Wolf, Skinner). This book challenges the rhetoric of an East-West dichotomy in marriage patterns and mechanisms, because it implies a picture that is too simplistic...

... checks, individualism – in Asia, early marriages, universal marriage, positive checks, parental authority (e.g. Malthus, Hajnal, Wrigley/Schofield, Macfarlane, Wolf, Skinner). The chapter claims that the East-West binary, based on studies of social norms and aggregate statistics implies a picture...

... European marriage pattern celibacy universal marriage individualism Since Malthus, demographers and anthropologists have pointed out distinctive differences between Europe and Asia in marriage patterns, household formation systems and family systems, and the role of marriage in the demographic regime...