Title: Criticism of marriage - Wikipedia
Headings: Criticism of marriage
Criticism of marriage
Contents
History
Cultural criticisms
Male dominance
Normalization and discrimination
Social isolation
Symbolism
Violence against women
Legal criticisms
Economic dependence
Immobility
Marital rape
Relationship favoritism
State control
Violence against women
Specific criticisms
Anarchist
Feminist
Marxist
Queer theory
See also
Religious views
References
External links

Content: In the West, cohabitation and births outside marriage are becoming more common. In the United States, conservative and religious commentators are highly critical of this trend. They are also often critical of present-day marriage law and the ease of divorce. John Witte, Jr., Professor of Law and director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University, argues that contemporary liberal attitudes toward marriage produce a family that is "haphazardly bound together in the common pursuit of selfish ends" exactly as prophesied by Nietzsche. In his From Sacrament to Contract, Witte has argued that John Stuart Mill 's secular and contractarian model of marriage, developed during the Enlightenment, provided the theoretical justification for the present-day transformation of Anglo-American marriage law, promoting unqualified "right to divorce" on plaintiff's demand, one-time division of property, and child custody without regard for marital misconduct. A Catholic professor Romano Cessario, in a review of Witte's book published in an ecumenical journal the First Things, suggested that a solution to the current crisis of marriage in the West, could come from the possible revival of the sacramental marriage among Christians, thus counterbalancing Nietzsche's pessimism (