1. The sex urge is sufficient to bring men and women together for reproduction. (UB 82:1.1).
2. Marriage is the ancestor of civilization’s most sublime institution — the home. (UB 84:0.1).
3. The purpose of marriage is to insure racial survival — not just personal happiness. (UB 68:2.9).
4. The evolution of marriage is the story of sex control by social, civil, and religious restrictions. (UB 82:2.1).
5. Women’s low status during Old Testament times reflects the mores of the herdsmen. (UB 84:3.2).
6. In primitive times marriage was the price of social distinction — a wife enhanced social standing. (UB 82:3.4).

1. Man’s great danger is the unrestricted multiplication of inferior racial strains. (UB 82:6.11).
2. The family is the master civilizer. (UB 82:0.2).
3. Marriages are not made in heaven. (UB 83:1.4).
4. Marriage is a social instiution embracing self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-gratification. (UB 84:0.3).
5. It was the factory, not religion, that emancipated woman. (UB 84:5.7).
6. Woman has always been the standard-bearer — the spiritual leader. (UB 84:6.4).
7. Marriage has always been closely linked with both property and religion. (UB 82:4.1).
8. Marriage is a social program of antagonistic co-operation. (UB 84:6.2).

1. There were four sorts of wives under polygamy:

1. Legal wives.
2. Wives of affection.
3. Concubines.
4. Slave wives. (UB 83:5.5).

2. Monogamy has always been the idealistic goal of marriage, and it is the yardstick measuring the advance of civilization. (UB 83:6.7).
3. Early woman was not a friend and lover — rather a servant and childbearer. (UB 84:4.3).
4. It was a great advance when the wife could own property. (UB 84:4.10).
5. But primitive women did not pity themselves. (UB 84:4.11).

1. Man did not intentionally seize woman’s rights — it was all an unconscious process. (UB 84:5.4).
2. Will modern woman be worthy of her newly won dignity and equality? (UB 84:5.10).
3. Divorce will persist as long as young people are not properly prepared for marriage. (UB 83:7.8).
4. The family-council of the Andites would be helpful today. (UB 84:7.29).
5. The differences between men and women persist throughout the ascendant career — even in the Corps of Finality. (UB 84:6.6).