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

  • Edvard Westermarck
Date:
1936
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    sexual instruction, 50; marriages between Jews and Christians, 84; between Protestants and Catholics, 84; the way to marriage for women usually over an occupation, 91; proletarian youths’ attachment to their families, 96, 97; the pro¬ portion of deaths to the number of births in a family, 99; legitimate first-born children conceived be¬ fore marriage, 105, 106; sexual intercourse among betrothed couples, 107; concubinage in mediaeval, 121; illegitimate chil¬ dren in, 127-130, 154, 155, 169; legal recognition of the double standard of pre-nuptial chastity, 132; legal conception of rape in mediaeval, 132; orphan asylums in, 161, 162; polygyny, 173, 174; divorce in mediaeval, 203; in modern, 204-206, 208; homo¬ sexuality, 249, 250, 253. See Teutonic peoples Gibbons, relations between the sexes and between parents and young among, 6; small number of young, 7; long period of infancy, 7; sexual season, 11 Gorillas, relations between the sexes and between parents and young, and other social relations among, 6; small number of young, 7; long period of infancy, 7; sexual season, 11 Greece, separation from bed and board in, 212; divorce, 212 —, ancient, importance attached to offspring in, 23; conjugal affection, 30; divorce, 63; attitude towards adultery, 63; ignorance and dull¬ ness of married women, 81; courtesans, 81; pederasty, 81, 247, 248, 251; opinions about the sexual impulse in women, 142; exposure of infants, 168, 169; abortion, 168; polygyny and con¬ cubinage, 183, 194, 195; notion of sexual uncleanness, 228 Group-marriage, 16-18, 157, 174, 175 Guatemala, divorce in, 211; separa¬ tion from bed and board, 211 Hebrews, importance attached to offspring among the, 22; adultery, 66, 67; polygyny, 185; notion of sexual uncleanness, 228, 229; punishment for bestiality, 243; abhorrence of sodomy, 245. See Jewish law Heretics, accused of homosexuality, 246 Hindus, importance attached to off¬ spring among the, 23, 183; con¬ jugal affection, 30; the art of love, 44-46, 50, 123; opinion held about the sexual impulse in women, 142; infanticide, 168, 169; polygyny, 183, 185, 193, 194; divorce, 213; sodomy, 247 Holiness, extremely sensitive to pol¬ lution, 229-232 Holland, trial marriages among the peasants of, 28, 29; marriages between Protestants and Catholics in, 84 Homosexuality, 81, 243, 245-256, 259, 260 Hungary, paternal support of an illegitimate child in, 127 Husbands, impotence of, 43; lack of skill or consideration, or ignor¬ ance, in, 43-48; adultery com¬ mitted by, ch. iv. 58-79 passim', less sensitive about domestic finances than wives, 88, 89 Illegitimate childbirth and children, 4, 126-130, 137, 138, 154, 155, 169, 178, 231, 238 Impotence, a cause of marital dis¬ cord, 43; a ground of polygyny, 173; of divorce or annulment of marriage, 206 Inbreeding, injurious effects of, 258, 259, 261-263 Incest, 256-263 India, polyandry and group-mar¬ riage in, 16, 17. See Hindus, Vedic people Indo-European nations, ancient, importance attached to offspring among, 22, 23; adultery, 67; exposure of new-born infants, 168 Infants, betrothal of, 137; mortality of artificially fed, or such as are suckled by strangers, 161; in¬ fanticide or exposure of, 167-169 Insanity, as a ground of divorce, 206, 207, 226 Ireland, economic equality between the parties at the conclusion of a marriage among the peasants in, 34, 35; trial unions, 105
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