The Case Against Marriage

 


‘Get Married’ and ‘Family Unfriendly’ Review: The Case for Wedlock

Two spirited volumes take aim at the difficulties—and the cultural attitudes—that have discouraged couples from getting married and having kids.




First Tier Doctrines
https://michellelesley.com/tag/first-tier-doctrines/


Familiar Idolatry and the Christian Case Against Marriage
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400827138.17/html

Authorizing Marriage?: Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400827138/html

Albert Mohler: The Case Against Marriage: Courtesy of Newsweek
https://repository.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/876/2010-06-25.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Why the most successful marriages are start-ups, not mergers
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/happiness-marriage-startups-mergers/675611/

Marriage As a Wretched Institution (November 1966 issue of The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/happiness-marriage-startups-mergers/675611/

WHAT YOU LOSE WHEN YOU GAIN A SPOUSE
What if marriage is not the social good that so many believe and want it to be?
By Mandy Len Catron

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