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प्रश्न
Explain any four functions of marriage.
उत्तर
- It regularises and socially sanctions the satisfaction of sex relations.
- It also instils an awareness of incest as taboo specifying who can be marital partners.
- Marriage helps in survival and continuity of the human race.
- It helps in the economic organisation and division of labour between marital members.
- It justifies property inheritance.
- It legitimises parenthood and establishment of the family.
- It aims at social solidarity.
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