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Topic: Does marriage imply children?

Anonymous bb79ce356817479d6e77d8b2df3fa060 started this discussion 2 months (2008-10-13 22:08:58 UTC) ago:

Do some couples wanna get married and that's it? No kids? Are kids always part of the "marriage plan"?

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Anonymous 42e3022dae3bf50333815edf25b24c4a replied with this 2 months (2008-10-13 22:13:02 UTC) ago, 4 minutes later (#69,398):

I know loads of married people that don't have and ever will have kids. Kids ≠ marriage

Anonymous 85f97de7f4648cea2abd60bcdf120b55 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-13 22:15:55 UTC) ago, 3 minutes later (#69,400):

No marrige does not imply children. Your significant other may be expecting them at a later stage, but that's another story.

Anonymous 9396467ca406c4b52d234c58fe790fbc replied with this 2 months (2008-10-13 23:07:10 UTC) ago, 51 minutes later (#69,427):

technically IIRC in the past a purpose of Marriage was to produce children in a way to would be 'legitimate' and show bloodlines. So arguably yes. There were taxes placed against married people who don't have kids or the marriage was annuled by the government in the past (and one US state tried a law like that again; forgot if it was passed).

Anonymous 7dd73742d67042f8712dd1002a939d37 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 02:15:36 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#69,519):

There are certainly couples who never have kids, but as far as I know, the vast majority of them do at some point. I can't say that I know a married couple who doesn't have (or plan to have) kids.