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Document Details : Title: Editorial Author(s): KNIEPS-PORT LE ROI, Thomas Journal: Marriage, Families & Spirituality Volume: 9 Issue: 2 Date: 2003 Pages: 151-152 DOI: 10.2143/INT.9.2.2004394 Abstract : Embarrassment is sometimes inevitable for those who engage in the scholarly study of “marriage” should they be asked to justify their object of study and show its relevance. Marriage? Is that a serious research topic? Is it not really only an intellectual diversion, a marginal topic that distracts attention from the real challenges of our time: demographic development, generational justice, and social coherence? Perhaps, instead, the study of marriage is an ideologically motivated undertaking that aims to force the freedom for private lifestyles, won after long struggles, back into the Procrustean bed of institutional and social control? |
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