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Define marriage. Discuss its functions in human life.

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Marriage is a social institution through which a man and a woman enters into a family life for the purpose of procreation and upbringing of the children. According to Horton and Hunt, ‘Marriage is an approved social pattern whereby two or more persons establish a family.’ 

The functions of marriage in human life are as follows : 

• Formation of the household. 

• Legitimate sexual association of the male and female. 

• Procreation of the offspring. 

• Upbringing and rearing of the children. 

• Transmission of culture from one gene-ration to another. 

• It is the basis of creating household as an economic unit. 

• It creates family as an educational unit for the infant.

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