Rationality and Irrationality in Marriage and Family

Author: Tang Shaohong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Why do we need marriage? Why do we need family? Can we live without marriage and family? Have we ever lived without marriage? Will there be a period in the future without the form of marriage? Will there be a period in the future without the form of family? Is the marital object absolutely between the opposite sex? Is it reasonable and legal if the marital object is between the same sex? Is the standard form of marriage monogamy? Is marriage the purpose of a happy life or a means? Does marriage have to be reasonable only when it exists in a socially recognized family form? Are the marriage forms of all ethnic groups exactly the same?
"The consciousness of human separation, without the recombination of love—this is the root of shame, as well as the root of guilt and anxiety. Therefore, the deepest need of humanity is to overcome this separation and break free from the prison of being alone. The absolute failure to achieve this goal means the loss of reason, because only through such a fundamental withdrawal from the external world can the sense of separation be overcome—the external world that seems to have disappeared, causing this terrifying state of complete loneliness."