The future of marriage in Western civilisation / by Edward Westermarck.

  • Edvard Westermarck
Date:
1936
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    Cruelty, as a cause of divorce, 61; as a legal ground of, 61, 205, 207, 215, 216 Customs, rules of conduct based on public disapproval, 8; the earliest rules of duty, 234 Defloration, 46-48 Denmark, birth control in, 26; con¬ cubinage in mediaeval, 121; di¬ vorce in, 211, 212; separation from bed and board, 211, 212 Desertion, as a ground of divorce, 61, 64, 204, 205, 207, 215 Dislikes, sentimental. See Aversions Divorce, ch. x. 202-227; causes of, 21, 22, 36, 37, 56, 60-62, 88, 89, 153; frequency, 41, 42, 82, 151, 152, 210, 211, 214-218; legal grounds, 61-65, n8, 154, 201, 204-227, 239, 264; by mutual consent, 109, 112, 113, 115, 117, 207-213, 220-223; at the ^desire of either party, 43, 63, 114, 115, 207-209, 213, 223, 224; costs of, 154, 216-218, 223. See Alimony Dogs, disinterested resentment in, 235 Drunkenness, as a ground of divorce, 205, 207 Economic circumstances connected with marriage, 4, 17, 33; influ¬ encing the choice of a partner, 34-36, 241; satisfaction in mar¬ riage, 88-91; the form of marriage, 182, 184, 186, 192, 194 Egypt, ancient, notion of sexual uncleanness in, 228 England, contraception in, 25, 130; divorce, 36, 61, 64, 65, 72, 201, 204, 206, 207, 214, 216, 221, 224; matrimonial unhappiness, 38-40; sexual ignorance among girls, 49; adultery, 61, 65, 66, 69, 72, 201, 207; murders due to jealousy, 78; women marrying out of their class, 83; consequences of ex¬ tra-domestic vocation of married women, 89; trial unions, 106; concubinage, 121, 122; illegiti¬ mate children, 130, 155; punish¬ ment for fornication, 131; re¬ marriage, 152; the marriage-rate and the age at which people marry, 153; proposals to legalise 275 polygyny, 175, 176; annulment of marriage, 206, 216; bestiality made felony, 243; punishment for sodomy, 246, 249, 252; frequency of homosexuality or sexual in¬ version, 252, 253 Eugenic measures, 101-103, 238 Exogamous rules, 256-259, 261 Family, the, consisting of parents and offspring among animals, 6, 7; universal in mankind, 7, 19; presumably prevalent with primi¬ tive man, 7, 8, 19, 259; marriage rooted in, rather than the family in marriage, 9 ; suggested or pre¬ dicted break-up of, 156-164, 170 “—, the animal”, according to Dr. Briffault, 18 Feminists, sexual equality between men and women advocated by, .133-135,. 148 Finland, illegitimate children in, 128; separation from bed and board, 212; divorce, 212 Fishes, paternal care among, 167 France, contraception in, 25; sexual ignorance among girls, 49; free love, 52, 123, 125; parents’ in¬ fluence on their children’s mar¬ riage, 53, 54, 210; paternal rights and filial duties, 54; divorce, 65, 203-205, 209, 210, 224; adultery, 65, 68; paternal support of an illegitimate child, 126, 127; homo¬ sexuality, 246, 248, 249, 253 Frederick William II. of Prussia, bigamy of, 173 Free love, ch. vii. 123-150; frequency of, said to indicate the doom of marriage, 154, 155; stringent divorce laws leading to, 214; sentimental aversions influencing judgments on, 241; superstitious ideas relating to, 258 Frogs, paternal care among, 167 Gaul, ancient, polygyny supposed to have occurred in, 195 Generation, artificial, 170 Germany, contraception in, 25, 26, 130; trial unions, 28, 105, 106; money marriages and economic equality between the parties among peasants, 34; prevalence of matrimonial unhappiness, 39;
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