What is Marriage?

What is Marriage?:
Marriage is an institution which can be found in every human culture. Although the forms and rules differ, marriages always involve some form of legally legitimized sexual relationship. Traditionally, marriages have had a religious basis. In the modern, industrialized West, marriage is based on a legal contract. In the Bible, women occupied an inferior social position to the nearest male relations — fathers, brothers, or husbands. Marriages were usually arranged in the Bible by the parents.