Elizabeth Ann Wilson Whetmore
Abstract: This article examines changes in marriage laws and related cultural norms and values in the United States across the last several decades, and discusses correlating worldview shifts. It appears that the “traditional” worldview produced earlier laws, cultural norms and values, and changes to these have corresponded with a cultural worldview shift, first into “modernism” and then towards “postmodernism.” The implications of these worldview shifts for ongoing change to marriage law and custom are also analyzed.
Tags: worldview paradigm., Cultural lines of development, Elizabeth Ann Wilson Whetmore, feminism, gay marriage, law, marriage custom, marriage worldview, modernist, postmodern, teen pregnancy, integral, traditional
