The Institution of Marriage

New figures show 50% of marriages end in divorce

 

The institution of marriage is not for the common people.  Historically speaking, they did not marry in the face of institutional marriage. It was for governors.  The question is who need the marriage as an institution. 

 

People might say that it ensures property rights or children’s prosperity.  But, it is doomed that the present regime protects only “legitimacy” and differentiates people slipping out of it.

 

There is an example in Europe.  That is “Pacte Civil de Solidarete(PaCS for short; in English, Civil Solidarity Pact).  It is that over 18- year- old people can make a contract of a communal life with each other and the Government approves it as the marriage equal to.  Especially in France, since the law was adopted on Nov. 15, 1999, more than 130,000 such contracts have been signed nationwide (2004).  Owing to it, the birth rate has been increasing there. 

 

It seems that the government respects individual rights of people, however, their aim was not to maintain the liberal relationship between men and women but to just evade responsibility to settle the matter, whether they should approve marriages of homosexual couples.  The Government could improve the appearances of peoples’ equality by giving the same rights and obligations coming from the institutional marriage for homosexual couples by means of the pact, without integrating them into the marriage as an institution.

 

At present, people have to be approved their legitimate existence by being integrated into institutions.  And after, they can demand their rights lawfully.  It means, for example, that homosexual couples firstly need to be approved their legitimacy by institutions, and secondly they can tell their right as legitimate ones. 

 

In a sense, if people, who are rejected in the present society, joined the society by means of approved by institutions, and all people had the same equal rights and were treated equally, it would mean that roles of the institutions would finally finish at that time, paradoxically.  There is no need to tell “we love each other” to the government, and also we don’t need to tell “we DON’T love each other anymore” to the government.

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