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  2. Nuclear family - Wikipedia

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    An American nuclear family composed of the mother, father, and their children, c. 1955 A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

  3. Consanguine marriage - Wikipedia

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    Upholding familial structure and assets, and ease of marital arrangements are valued among consanguineous marriages. [4] [5] Low age and a lack of awareness of the consequences of inbreeding are common in consanguineous marriages. [2] Consanguineous marriage is present in every religion, and cannot be accredited to any one religious mandate. [4]

  4. Family - Wikipedia

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    Typically, societies with conjugal families also favor neolocal residence; thus upon marriage, a person separates from the nuclear family of their childhood (family of orientation) and forms a new nuclear family (family of procreation). Such systems generally assume that the mother's husband is also the biological father.

  5. Marriage - Wikipedia

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    By its nature, the institution of marriage and conjugal love is ordered to the procreation and upbringing of offspring. Marriage creates rights and duties in the Church between the spouses and towards their children: "[e]ntering marriage with the intention of never having children is a grave wrong and more than likely grounds for an annulment ...

  6. Types of marriages - Wikipedia

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    The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil marriage and religious marriage, and typically marriages employ a combination of both (religious marriages must often be licensed and recognized by the state, and conversely civil marriages, while not sanctioned under religious law, are nevertheless ...

  7. Consummation - Wikipedia

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    The relevance of consummation in a civil marriage varies by jurisdiction. For example, under section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, a refusal or inability to consummate a marriage is a ground of annulment in England and Wales, [3] but this only applies to heterosexual marriage because Paragraph 4 of schedule 4 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 specifically excludes non ...

  8. Divorcee who stopped having sex with husband wins ... - AOL

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    Europe's top rights court on Thursday ruled in favor of a 69-year-old French woman whose husband obtained a divorce on the grounds that she stopped having sex with him.

  9. Conjugal visit - Wikipedia

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    A conjugal visit is a ... Los Angeles stated that criminologists believe allowing conjugal visits would build family ties ... the same-sex marriage or domestic ...