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  2. History of courtship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the Puritan colonies of New England, marriage required the consent of both parents and children. Law and custom governed courtship. [6]: 281–286 Marriage in New England was considered a civil contract, rather than a sacrament. [7] A potential suitor would approach a young woman's parents, often with a small gift, and seek their consent.

  3. Timeline of civil marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nearly 500 couples obtained marriage licenses before the ruling was stayed on May 16 by the Arkansas Supreme Court. On May 14, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban and ordered the state to start recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions as well as license them.

  4. Courtship - Wikipedia

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    God Speed by English artist Edmund Leighton, 1900: depicting an armored knight departing for war and leaving behind his wife or sweetheart. Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, de facto relationship.

  5. Marriage - Wikipedia

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    Child marriage was common throughout history, even up until the 1900s in the United States, where in 1880 CE, in the state of Delaware, the age of consent for marriage was 7 years old. [38] Still, in 2017, over half of the 50 United States have no explicit minimum age to marry and several states set the age as low as 14. [39]

  6. Boston marriage - Wikipedia

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    Katharine Coman and Katharine Lee Bates lived together in a Wellesley marriage for 25 years. Boston marriages were so common at Wellesley College in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the term Wellesley marriage became a popular description. [7]: 185 Typically, the relationship involved two academic women. This was common from about ...

  7. History of marriage in California - Wikipedia

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    On September 8, 1850, California entered the US as the 31st state of the union. At the time marriage statutes described marriage as "a civil contract to which the consent of the parties is required" [9] with gender specific pronouns applied to "husband" and "wife". Later court decisions and some statutes dating from both statehood and the 1872 ...

  8. Civil marriage - Wikipedia

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    A civil marriage is a marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official. [1] Such a marriage may be performed by a religious body and recognized by the state, or it may be entirely secular .

  9. A History of Marriage - Wikipedia

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    A History of Marriage, published by Penguin Canada in 2009, is a non-fiction book by Elizabeth Abbott, the Canadian author of A History of Celibacy (1999) and A History of Mistresses (2003) that combines general history and personal histories of marriage. The book is a study of mostly North American rituals of courting, nuptials, marriage, sex ...