Marriage in Australia: Difference between revisions

As was the case for other [[Western world|Western countries]], [[marriage]] in Australia for most of the 20th century was done early and near-universally, particularly in the period after [[World War II]] to the early 1970s. Marriage at a young age was most often associated with [[pregnancy]] prior to marriage.<ref name="saec">{{cite book |title=Four Dimensional Social Space |last=McDonald |first=P. |chapter=The 1980s: Social and Economic Change Affecting Families |editor1-first=Tom |editor1-last=Jagtenberg |editor2-first=Phillip |editor2-last=D'Alton |year=1992 |publisher=Harper Educational Publishers |location=Pymble, Sydney |isbn=0063121271 |pages=126–128 }}</ref> Marriage was once seen as necessary for couples who cohabited. While some couples did cohabit before marriage, it was relatively uncommon until the 1950s in much of the Western world.<ref name="mac">{{cite book |title=Marriage and Cohabitation |last=Thornton |first=Arland |author2=William G. Axinn |author3=Yu Xie |year=2008 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0226798682 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjlqhFiK9H4C |accessdate=3 August 2013}}</ref>

 

 

==Nature of marriage==