Marriage

===Relation recognized by custom or law===
In ''[[The History of Human Marriage]]'' (1891), [[Edvard Westermarck]] defined marriage as "a more or less durable connection between male and female lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of the offspring."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Westermarck |first=Edward |author-link=Edvard Westermarck |url=https://archive.org/details/b2998130x_0001/ |title=History of Human Marriage |date=26 October 2017<!-- scan date --> |publisher=The Allerton Book Company |isbn=978-0-7661-4618-1 |edition=5th |volume=1 |location=New York |publication-date=1922 |page=71 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In ''The Future of Marriage in Western Civilization'' (1936), he rejected his earlier definition, instead provisionally defining marriage as "a relation of one or more men to one or more women that is recognized by custom or law".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Westermarck |first=Edward |author-link=Edvard Westermarck |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.219197/ |title=The Future of Marriage in Western Civilisation |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |year=1936 |isbn=978-0-8369-5304-6 |page=3 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>