Another thread on marriage : Is marriage obsolete?

[denuseri]

I think marriage today is no more obsolete than it was a thousand plus years ago and I am fairly certian that it was no more obsolete to the people back then as it was to the generations that preceeded them, all the way back to our earliest beginings.

[thir]

I think marriage today is no more obsolete than it was a thousand plus years ago and I am fairly certian that it was no more obsolete to the people back then as it was to the generations that preceeded them, all the way back to our earliest beginings.

We have no idea how the earlies beginings were, as have often been noted. But if we try to imagine Mr and Mrs Stoneage having a family like today, would it be serial monogamy as we see it today, with lots of singles spread along the way and children pnedulating between parents?