All countries in Europe have now abolished "marriage by habit and repute", with Scotland being the last to do so in 2006.
"We must abolish marriage," said the second.
In 1894, the Mysore kingdom passed laws to abolish marriage of girls below the age of eight and in 1923 provided women the right to franchise.
They decide to abolish love and marriage, which they consider as yet another form of female subjection, and thus forbid Lina from seeing her lover Persinet.
Through one character after another, Shaw puts forward arguments for polygamy, for polyandry and for abolishing marriage altogether.
The free-love movement, which Whitman watched closely, wanted to abolish marriage and re-establish all relationships on the basis of "passional attraction."
In 1921, he created a law that abolished forced marriage, child marriage, bride price, and put restrictions on polygamy, a common practice among households in Afghanistan.
He establishes a police force, abolishes marriage, and has the state assume ownership of the women and children.
All other European jurisdictions having long abolished "marriage by habit and repute", Scotland became the last to do so in 2006.
Every so often some idiot tries to abolish marriage.