Answer:
Marriage practices vary widely and match societal values
Explanation:
Societies around the world demonstrate the enormous difference in cultural beliefs of family and marriage. Impressions about how people are related to each other, what kind of marriage would be ideal, when people should have children, who should care for children, and many other family-related matters differ cross-culturally. While the function of families is to fulfill basic human needs such as providing for children, defining parental roles, regulating sexuality, and passing property and knowledge between generations, there are many variations or patterns of family life that can meet these needs. This chapter introduces some of the more common patterns of family life found around the world.
Organized marriages were particular in many cultures around the world in the past including in the United States. Marriages are organized by families for many reasons: because the families have something in common, for monetary reasons, to match people with others from the “correct” social, economic or religious group, and for many other reasons. In India today, some people practice a kind of modified organized marriage method that allows the potential spouses to meet and spend time together before agreeing to a match.
