What is the role of the family in society? How important is the role that family has in society in your opinion?
After reading the article by Ralph Wedgwood, I started to think in a different way about the institution of marriage. I had the idea that people, who want to live together until the end of their lives, choose the way to marry. Maybe due to my nation, I was seeing marriage as an obligation to live together. In our society, in Turkey, to live together without marriage is not an acceptable process. In our country, people do not choose to marry with the people they love, to share the properties. It is not a mutual living agreement, it is not a document to show to society that “we are dividing everything into two, it is why we married”. In Turkey, it is just to get the permission of society to live together. This is why I saw the obligatory side of the marriage different than the writer. However, in an other way, I agree with him. If we consider other countries, where to live together without marriage is acceptable, it is true to say that people are choosing marriage not because it is an obligation, they are choosing it for the benefits of the legal side of it. Since it is to show that our marriage is a long-term marriage, it makes their marriage to gain good reputation from the society.
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When you say ‘I saw the obligatory side of the marriage different than the writer’ what do you mean exactly? Do you just mean that in Turkey it is obligatory for different reasons than in the west?
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