Marriage has traditionally embedded views about normality, with married people considered “normal” and possessing the power to dictate norms. However, marriage isn’t for everyone, as evidenced by declining marriage rates and rising divorces during lockdown. Despite this, some countries, such as China, are actively encouraging marriage and childbirth for economic reasons. Marriage has also been used for patriotic and racial reasons in the past.
However, marriage’s decline could be a positive thing. Shorn of patriarchal expectations, new forms of marriage could emerge, with individuals better able to communicate what they want from the institution. De-normalizing marriage could also lead to more experimentation and creativity, with marriage as a testing ground for different ways of living and existing together on a shared planet.
Despite Tolstoy’s famous adage that all happy families are alike, unhappy marriages are more likely to reveal their true natures. Those who enter into marriage happily are not just reproducing societal norms, but reimagining them. Ultimately, marriage remains a relevant and important model for the creativity and solidarity required to face our uncertain future together.
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