The family is a unit of society, and family status gives certain advantages. It can be simple public approval, or even preferential participation in social state programs that are not available for bachelors. One way or another, the reasons why people get married are not so few.
For love
Hopefully, the most common reason to legitimize your relationship is sincere love for each other. Young people trust their feelings so much that they are ready to live together their whole lives, give birth to children, and educate grandchildren. Of course, the union may break up after several years, but this does not mean that the reason for the wedding was something else. Just feelings sometimes go away
.By calculation
Often in society there are weddings of convenience. So they say when spouses do not experience mutual love. One of the halves uses the other for selfish motives. For example, passion has a large material capital or influential parents who can arrange a career for a newly-made family member. Such marriages can be unequal not only in social and material terms, but also in terms of age, when spouses have an indecently large difference in age. However, in such situations there are exceptions, but it is very difficult to believe that a young girl is marrying an old man for love. Life experience suggests: by calculation.
Such a variant as a fictitious marriage also belongs to the category of “calculated”, but here it is not necessary for one of the spouses to own significant capital. Fictitious marriage can solve the issue of registration for an emigrant who wants to stay in the country. It may be for the sake of social approval, for example, in politics, when it is indecent for a candidate for deputy to be single - this may lower his electoral rating. The second half also gets its profits - cash reward or any services.
Tribute to traditions
It happens that people get married, because "necessary." This, again, is required by social norms, traditions, and it is very difficult to resist them, even if there is no meaningful desire to get married. The age of single people, approaching 40, pushes to the same thought - it is necessary. We must give birth to children, we must look for half, so as not to be a lonely helpless old man in old age. Here, the feeling of fear of a lonely future is added to the “must”.
