Even if the former spouse allows to have another marriage it is a punishable offence. Yet a person is legally allowed as many live-in-relationships as one wants even if the first partner objects. Isn't it a hypocracy?
2007-03-27 05:00:19 · 12 answers · asked by VILAS S 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Marriage has a legal definition. It also has a social definition. And I doubt someone would live in a multi-relationship house if they objected to it.
2007-03-27 05:06:30 · answer #1 · answered by Matt 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We live in a free society and are free to do anything we want that doesn't harm others
Marriage from a government perspective (not a religious one) is to encourage the best environment for raising children that will be good contributing members to society. The only reason that government encourages marriage is because of children - not because it's dictating morals to consenting adults.
It sounds like Arif is answering me rather than the question so I'll add more detail. First he is wrong. Illegitimate children are recognized for inheritance purposes and need to be specifically excluded in a person's will or else they can sue and get part of the inheritance. A person can also exclude known children by name so it is no different.
What Islam does has nothing to do with the question or what I said. Our government (through the people) feels that in our society the best way for children to be raised is with one mother and one father. It doesn't mean it's the only right way and that other societies don't have something that works better for theirs - it means that it's recognized as the best way here.
In middle eastern societies where women don't have rights and people in general get their wealth from inheritance a rich man should provide for more than one woman.
2007-03-27 12:17:57 · answer #2 · answered by Nobody Girl 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In a Live-In Arrangement - you well and truly Live-In(side) a Relationship - the Government is Happy
But in a Marriage - you Live-Out(side) a Relationship - More problems for you and the Government !
2007-03-27 13:50:37 · answer #3 · answered by Ganesh Babu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't enter into a legal binding contract with a live in...a Marriage is a contract between 2 people...
Your comparing apples and oranges
2007-04-03 08:38:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unwed, pre/extra marital sexual relations are not good, resulting in dissatisfied marital lives, AIDS / STD, and births of bastards/ illegitimates and put spouses in search for more betters, and destroy joyful marital lives usually resulting in divorces. High % of divorces and children of broken families are threat to the peaceful world.
All unwed sexual activities (pre/post/extra marital), perverted & homosexual acts are specifically forbidden only in Islam in clearly written unambiguous words as great sins & heinous crimes punishable with publicly lashing / death by pelting stones, etc. Islam strictly restrained Muslim men from sexual relations except in wedlock upto 4 with conditions of equality among wives, but recommended for only 1.
Premarital, extramarital or unwed sexual activities are not barred or prohibited hence no offence punishable in any Indian law. A wife’s sexual intercourse with other/s is also no offence, hence no prosecution or punishment to her. Thus a female’s physical sexual relations with persons/s of her choice (with their consent) is not an offence or prohibited / barred in any Indian law and she is at liberty to enjoy SEX freely and fearlessly. A male’s physical sexual relations with any 16+ female (with her consent) is no offence or barred / prohibited in any Indian Law, unless she is in the wedlock of somebody else and is done knowing her wedlock or without her husband’s consent or connivance. Prostitution (commercial sex trade, offering sex for monetary gain) alone is an offence punishable in Indian laws.
2007-04-02 12:45:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for your information Islam allows more than one wife upto four, maximum. But it abhores any live in relationship. Infact live in relationship are treated as adultary and punishment for adultary in Islam is death by stoning in public. Besides if you marry and have childern, these childern get full inheritance rights. While the childern born out of live in relationships are not recognised as ligitimate, hence are deprived of their due rights for no fault of theirs.
2007-03-27 12:30:30 · answer #6 · answered by arif anwar 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no live in relationships are not entitled to the protections and benefits of a marriage. By benefits i dont mean sex i mean legally, tax benefits, and things like that.
2007-03-27 12:14:19 · answer #7 · answered by eawolfpack04 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Law governs such relations also. You can be prosecuted for bi-gamy, adultery, immoral trafficking.
2007-03-29 06:23:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ain't the world hypocritical??
2007-03-27 12:12:41 · answer #9 · answered by eviot44 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not true.
It is called Adultery and is punished if reported.
2007-03-27 12:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by minootoo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋