Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7y-brjyqpSA
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Mr. Homemaker's Definition & Purpose of MARRIAGE [Draft as of Sep 14, 2022]:

• Exclusivity (especially Sexual Exclusivity)
• Commitment (e.g. life-long)
• Mutual Enrichment

• Joint Endeavor to Bring up Children & Foster a Well-Functioning Family

• References
  Seven Types of Love: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201606/these-are-the-7-types-love;
  Family & Marriage: The Functionalist Perspective on the Family – ReviseSociology;
  Why Bother with Marriage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4FLeY6F9g;
  US Supreme Court on Marriage: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/14-556;
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• Classical Philosophy distinguishes six kinds of “love” relevant to our model of Marriage - Romantic Love being just one kind.

  • (1) Passionate Love [Eros] entails sexual “Romantic Love”
  • (2) Playful, Uncommitted Love [Ludus] entails fun and/or conquest - with no strings attached
  • (3) Friendship [Philia] entails mutual good will
    • Utility
    • Pleasure
    • Mutual Admiration = Goodness = Rationality & Virtue
  • (4) Familial Love [Storge] is like Friendship, but rooted in dependency, familiarity, and our identity (rather than qualities)
  • (5) Practical Love [Pragma] is founded on reason, duty, and long-term interests
  • (6) Universal Love (e.g. of strangers) [Agape] is unselfish, altruistic concern for welfare of other [generally]

• United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Opinion, OBERGEFELL v. HODGES -

• Four principles and traditions demonstrate that the reasons marriage is fundamental under the Constitution -

• personal choice regarding marriage is inherent in the concept of individual autonomy;

• a two-person union unlike any other in its importance to the committed individuals;

• it safeguards children and families and thus draws meaning from related rights of childrearing, procreation, and education;

• (a) Without the recognition, stability, and predictability marriage offers, children suffer the stigma of knowing their families are somehow lesser.

• (b) They also suffer the significant material costs of being raised by unmarried parents, relegated to a more difficult and uncertain family life.

• (c) Precedent protects the right of a married couple not to procreate, so the right to marry cannot be conditioned on the capacity or commitment to procreate.

• marriage is a keystone of the Nation’s social order…. States have plac[ed] it at the center of many facets of the legal and social order.

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