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Why is the marriage important in the community?

      

Why is the marriage important in the community?

  

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Eric
- Marriage is for the continuity of the society and is an institution that is ordained by God.
- It is through marriage that children are born to the community.
- Marriage raised the status of the couples once somebody was married he was given a lot of
respect.
- Marriage extended relationship and therefore enlarged kinship ties.
- Marriage was a source of wealth for the family. Girls brought wealth in form of cattle to
marriage.
- Marriage brought unity in the society. Marriage ceremonies brought people together as they
came together to rejoice.
- Children born out of marriage inherit their parents’ property.
- Children made marriage complete. In the traditional African Community, marriage was
considered incomplete without children.
- Children born out of marriage also provide security to the homes.
- Marriage also unites the living and the dead.
- Through marriage, the living dead and those yet to be born are brought together.
- Marriage enables one to assume leadership rules an unmarried person would not be chosen a
leader.
- Marriage ensures that children are not born outside wedlock.
- Marriage brings completeness in a person. Once somebody is married he got fully integrated
to the society
ericmunguti answered the question on September 26, 2018 at 06:42


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