why we need marriage is it hormonal or psyhological stuff?

Answer 1

social norms. (your desire to be considered part of a society or culture).

Answer 2

Jak got it pretty much right.

Marriage is not about the adults so much as the kids.

Really hard to see that when you are young, but that is really the point.

You get married as a foundation for having a family. Er, that means children.

That is what it is there for.

Now, before someone flames be about that stupid "Marriage between a man and a woman" crap going on in congress...

If two people of the same gender make that commitment, then they are willing to support a family.

Marriage is not about the adults, it is about the kids

-Dio

Answer 3

If hormonal or psychological are my two choices, then I would have to say psychological. Marriage "cements" a relationship, giving it the appearance of lasting forever (of course, the divorce rate in the US belies that concept). Marriage was at one time a method of transferring property - including the wife. Marriage currently is the best way to ensure certain rights and privileges pass to your spouse, such as inheritance, medical decision making, etc. Marriage is also traditional, and many people want to follow traditions.

However, over the last century, I would have to argue that marriage is no guarantee of parental stability or ability. Many, many marriages are bad matches and children suffer. At the same time,many non-traditional relationships such as single parenting or step parenting produce stable loving homes.

Answer 4

Probably the original reason for marriage occurred a few thousand years ago when a man-centered society replaced a female-centered one. For 99 percent of human existence (2 million years), women controlled sex and had sex with whomever they wanted. The problem is that it is then hard to tell whose kids are whose, except through the mother. About 10,000 years ago, when agriculture began, the farmers needed to know whose children were whose, so they could know whose kids they could use to help farm their land, and who could take over when they died. Marriage came into existence: one man and at least one woman; Moslems think it's at least four wives, who when they have children know whose children they are (ours, me and my wife or wives), and thus you can hand down land and other property from generation to generation.

We've forgotten this origin today, and we get married for "love". We talk about needing "a better half", another person to create balance (a psychological need).

Actually, love and companionship had very little to do with the original institution of marriage. Its basis was regulating sex between men and women so that men (primarily) could know whose kids were whose. Jealousy, for example, is probably a mechanism for defending "my" woman (wife) from other men, because if my wife fools around, how do I know if the kid is mine?

Today, with DNA testing, we could probably eliminate marriage and still know whose kids are whose, and so preserve inheritance laws. But since the psychology of jealousy would remain, marriage will probably continue for a while longer.

Answer 5

It's a "God" thing.

Gen 2:18 The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

Gen 2:21 The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Gen 2:22 He made the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Gen 2:24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Answer 6

marriage, first off, is 100% psychological and training to most people. there are some people who are born to be monogamus ands their are some taught by religionand parents(etc.0 to be that way. but I now believe that -with 56% of the american population being female, that 1 on 1 marriage is almost certainly obselete.if we continuewith marriage, then we are condemning 13% of the population to celibacy and aloneness- and that's sad.

Answer 7

Marriage is not necessary in any biological way. It fulfills various social functions and creates a stable socio-economic unit for raising children but it is not really necessary.

Anthropologists, if you happen to believe in Anthropology, tell us that early humans were more tribal (raising children more communally) and pair bonding (marriage) is a more modern adaptation.

Now if you're talking about sex, thats another question.

Answer 8

Marriage is necessary to fulfill the work of dominion given to man by God in the begining. Marriage also makes manifest God's relationship with mankind.

Answer 9

Is human nature and the need to procreate, just like animals. Instinctively or not.

Answer 10

IDEALLY:to provide a stable nest for the young to be protected, nutured and thrive and you don't have to carry your pots and pans everywhere you go

Answer 11

i think hormones and psychology is related
so marraige is both hormonal and psychological