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Marriage, like other close relationships, exerts considerable influence on health. [288] Married people experience lower morbidity and mortality across such diverse health threats as cancer, heart attacks, and surgery. [289] Research on marriage and health is part of the broader study of the benefits of social relationships.
Homogamy is marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. It is a form of assortative mating . [ 1 ] The union may be based on socioeconomic status , class, gender, caste, ethnicity, or religion, [ 2 ] or age in the case of the so-called age homogamy .
In a cross-cultural study that covered 37 countries, [50] preferences for age differences were measured and research supported the theory that people prefer to marry close to the age when female fertility is at its highest (24–25 years). Analysing the results further, cross culturally, the average age females prefer to marry is 25.4 years old ...
A Pew study in 2005 which examined Internet users in long-term relationships including marriage, found that many met by contacts at work or at school. [40] The survey found that 55% of relationship-seeking singles agreed that it was "difficult to meet people where they live."
The broader term is mixed-orientation relationship, sometimes shortened to MOR or MORE (while mixed-orientation marriage is sometimes shortened as MOM). [1] The people involved in such a marriage may not be romantically or sexually compatible, for example if the marriage is between a straight man and a lesbian.
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
Marriage in the United States is a legal, social, and religious institution. The marriage age is set by each state and territory, either by statute or the common law applies. . An individual may marry without parental consent or other authorization on reaching 18 years of age in all states except in Nebraska (where the general marriage age is 19) and Mississippi (where the general marriage age ...
In 1998, about 40,000 people living in Utah were part of a polygamist family, or about 1.4 percent of the population. [44] Polygamists have been difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to ...