For queer people, unions can be built around protection, friendship, parenting, finances or chosen kinship, just as much as ...

Marriage, as a topic of ethnographic and historical exploration, ties together kinship, politics, economics, and faith in complex and significant ways. In the United States, federal and state ...

Marriage in west Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society, and has evolved over time. While traditional heterosexual unions dominate discussions, a lesser-known but significant ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

The idea of marriage in its dominant, modern form is seen as a product of economic and legal conditions. But how do values such as gender equality, personal liberty, and dignity inform the ongoing ...

(L-R) Jonathan Van Ness; Person waves Pride flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court bulding; Chasten Buttigieg. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering hearing a case that would overturn Obergefell v.

For those unaware, Jana Bezuidenhout is Errol Musk’s former stepdaughter, through the latter’s marriage to the former’s mother, Heide-Mari, in 1992. At the time of the wedding, Jana was around four.

While culturally rooted and religiously permissible, cousin marriages require careful consideration of consent, compatibility ...

US state, Connecticut, has now passed a bill banning first-cousin marriages from next month (1st October) but it still remains legal in 16 other states.

Over the years, there have been significant changes in marriage and maintenance laws. But it is important to recognise that ...

Marriage: The sacred union of two hearts, two souls, and, less romantically, two tax returns. While poets and romantics wax lyrical about eternal love, accountants and financial advisors see matrimony ...