Argumentative Essay On Marriage And Family

“What’s Love Got to Do With it,” is about the transition of marriages throughout the centuries. Marriage has just recently begun to be centered and initiated due to love rather than as a business transaction. Stephanie Coontz has researched and written many articles based on varying topics between marriage and family. In this article Coontz (2005) argues that many marriages had absolutely nothing to do with love, in fact she found that it was not uncommon for marriages to not only be similar to a business transaction but that it was not uncommon for there to be multiple people in marriage. Multiple people in a marriage seems ludicrous to many people, myself included, but for a very long time what happened between a man and a woman was also between the entire community. Coontz wrote in another article “authorities and neighbors were more concerned with wives who challenged patriarchal power than with husbands who abused it” (2005:141). This states that society was more disturbed by a woman possibly overturning the authority that society had set out for the grosser sex. The contexts of marriage began to change when Luther argued that parents should not be able to force their children into a loveless marriage; allowing people to marry whom they want while making the process of getting married less like a

The history that Coontz has researched is laid out in incredible detail. The history and the lay of information regarding the transitions of marriage through out time is compelling and because of the accuracy surrounding the history, the lay of the topic makes it even more persuasive. I personally have a counter argument; I agree that the transition of marriage from business to love is completely accurate, but due to the perception of how society attempts to push the traditional patriarchal marriage on citizens, proves that marriage has