During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

However, even after he grew up, Judah did not give Tamar to Shelah in marriage.

The gap, a maximum of 22 years, is somewhat small to contain within it Judah's first marriage, the birth of Er and Onan, Er's marriage to Tamar, Tamar's subsequent pregnancy by Judah, and the birth of Judah's grandchildren / children ( Judah was the father and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, was the mother ); the passage is also widely regarded as an abrupt change to the surrounding narrative Joseph story.

Athaliah is usually considered the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel ( see discussion below ); her marriage to Jehoram sealed a treaty between Israel and Judah.

However the Talmud ( Bava Batra 91a ) asserts that Ibzan is to be identified with Boaz from the story of Ruth, who lived in the Bethlehem of Judah, and that he consummated his marriage with Ruth on the last night of his life.

The most famous case of a levirate-type marriage in the Hebrew Bible is the unusual union of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar found in.

There were four rulers of the United Monarchy: Saul ben Kish ( from the tribe of Benjamin ); Ishbaal ( name sometimes written as Ishboseth ), a son of Saul ; David, son-in-law of Saul through his marriage to Michal and from the tribe of Judah ; and Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba.

According to R. Judah, however, the pilegesh should also receive a marriage contract, but without including a clause specifying a divorce settlement.

Moralists in the late 19th century such as Henry Mayhew decried the slums for their supposed high levels of cohabitation without marriage and illegitimate births.

Before 1900, England had none of these except for the civil registration of births, marriages, and burials briefly attempted under the Commonwealth ( 1653 – 1660 ) and an even more short-lived initiative of the same kind in 1694 in connection with the attempt to raise a tax on the occasion of every birth, marriage, and death — paupers excepted.

With more births inside marriage it seems inevitable that marriage rates and birth rates would rise together.

A majority of births were outside marriage in Iceland ( 64. 3 %), Estonia ( 59. 7 %), Slovenia ( 56. 8 %), Bulgaria ( 56 %), Norway ( 55 %), Sweden ( 54. 2 %), and France ( 55 %).

Moralists in the late 19th century such as Henry Mayhew decried high levels of cohabitation without marriage and illegitimate births in London slums.

Direct data come from vital statistics registries that track all births and deaths as well as certain changes in legal status such as marriage, divorce, and migration ( registration of place of residence ).

This edition was edited by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, and focused mainly on the entries from 1692 to 1718, which gives extensive details about the early years of the Baillies ' marriage, the births and upbringing of their children and the marriages of their daughters.

Though the motivations behind bride kidnapping vary by region, the cultures with traditions of marriage by abduction are generally patriarchal with a strong social stigma on sex or pregnancy outside of marriage and illegitimate births.

One study found that the younger sisters of teen mothers were less likely to emphasize the importance of education and employment and more likely to accept human sexual behavior, parenting, and marriage at younger ages ; younger brothers, too, were found to be more tolerant of non-marital and early births, in addition to being more susceptible to high-risk behaviors.

Prevention comes in the form of access to obstetrical care, support from trained health care professionals throughout pregnancy, providing access to family planning, promoting the practice of spacing between births, and supporting women in education and postponing early marriage.

Couples postponed marriage and first births, and they sharply reduced the number of third and fourth births.

Lafosse, who claims descent from Charles, includes within the book various accounts of previously unknown marriages and births within the Royal House of Stuart, beginning with the secret annulment of the marriage of Charles Edward Stuart and Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, and his subsequent remarriage to Marguerite O ' Dea d ' Audibert de Lussan, Comtesse de Massillan.

In Europe, besides the low levels of fertility rates and the delay of motherhood, another factor that now characterizes fertility is the growing percentage of live births outside marriage.

A majority of births were outside marriage in Iceland ( 64. 3 %), Estonia ( 59. 7 %), Slovenia ( 56. 8 %), Bulgaria ( 56 %), Norway ( 55 %), Sweden ( 54. 2 %), and France ( 55 %).

Male family members are added to the family by births between married family members, as well as adoption and marriage.

* British diplomat Harold Nicolson and his wife Vita Sackville-West, who were both bisexual, were monogamous early in their marriage but after the births of their two sons acknowledged their preferences for their own sex and engaged in love affairs.

But several Hindu priests have performed same-sex marriages, arguing that love is the result of attachments from previous births and that marriage, as a union of spirit, is transcendental to gender.

This shift is attributed to a variety of widely recognized social changes that occurred in American society in the 1960s and 1970s: changing sexual morals increased the prevalence of sexual activity outside of marriage and decreased the stigma surrounding out-of-wedlock births ; American attitudes about marriage and divorce changed ; and women made economic gains that increased their independence and ability to leave unhappy marriages.

MacDonald describes Judaism as having ( or constituting ) a " group evolutionary strategy " aimed to limit exogamy, enforce cultural segregation, promote in-group charity and economic cooperation, and regulate in-group marriage and births to achieve high levels of intelligence, resource acquisition ability, parenting care, and group allegiance.

He proposes that women seeking an abortion should be counseled to marry the father instead of terminating the pregnancy, stating, " A healthy marriage is the answer to abortion and out-of-wedlock births.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.

One is the primary purpose for which marriage exists, namely, the continuance of the race through the gift and heritage of children ; ;

In 1930, the Lambeth Conference again affirmed the primary purpose of marriage to be the procreation of children, but conceded that, in certain limited circumstances, contraception might be morally legitimate.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

She also was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia, Claudius ' daughter and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina, and to the young Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, Claudius ' children with Valeria Messalina.

By his marriage with Irene Doukaina, Alexios I had the following children:

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).

Her husband died, apparently in the early years of her marriage, leaving her with two children, Athalaric and Matasuntha ( c. 517 – after 550 ), wife c. 550 of Germanus.

The children of this marriage were:

On the way home, he negotiated with King Levon I of Armenia, the Emperor Theodore I Laskaris of Nicaea and Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and arranged several marriage contracts between his children and the courts he visited.

Peace with Bulgaria was secured through territorial concessions and a diplomatic marriage between the children of the two emperors.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage.

It is possible that an initially mild attraction to Weightman assumed increasing importance to Anne over time, in the absence of other opportunities for love, marriage, and children.

However, no children resulted from the marriage.

The marriage resulted in nine children.

#* 2 children from first marriage, to Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, including:

#* 3 children from second marriage, to Catharina of Württemberg, including:

#***** Two children from first marriage, to Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies of the Bourbon family: