Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by wtbob on Saturday June 27, 2015 @09:52PM
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> Sometimes inability to bear children has been grounds for divorce or--in the case of royalty--annulment
Not just royalty. An annulment means that there was never a marriage…because a marriage which cannot produce children wasn't regarded as a marriage (or as less of one), which suffices to demonstrate a strong connexion between childbearing and marriage.
> "Why just two people?" is of course trivially easily answered: humans are a socially pair-bonded species.
We are also, you may have noticed, two-sexed. This is even more basic to our biology.
Not just royalty. An annulment means that there was never a marriage…because a marriage which cannot produce children wasn't regarded as a marriage (or as less of one), which suffices to demonstrate a strong connexion between childbearing and marriage.
> "Why just two people?" is of course trivially easily answered: humans are a socially pair-bonded species.
We are also, you may have noticed, two-sexed. This is even more basic to our biology.