The family institution in the modern world has transformed, and quite strongly. Today, family relations are somewhat simplified, altered and become different than a hundred years ago. This is surprising, but today you can count 30 types of marriage!
"Basic" marriages
We are used to the fact that there is a traditional type of marriage, which consists of a registry office. By the way, only this is considered legal in our country. Church marriage is not inferior in popularity to it , that is, a wedding, when the priest unites the souls of the newlyweds with the help of various religious rites. Well, and, of course, actual marriage (popularly - civil) is very popular today, in other words, cohabitation of two young people without legalizing their relationship through an official way. That would seem to be all. But in the modern world there are other types of marriages.
"Legal"
Today, there are also such marriages, which are often interested in the police. First of all, it is fictitious, which is created by two people for their own benefit. But there is no family as such in this marriage. Basically, such relations are registered in order to obtain material benefits or a residence permit, and this is often prosecuted by law.
Material basis
Also, not a new concept for many will be a marriage of convenience. With this scenario, one (or even two) of a couple enters into family relationships, guided not by feelings, but by the opportunity to get some kind of material condition. By the way, this type of marriage has existed at all times, and it is considered quite strong and persistent, because often people hold quite a lot of money together.
Dynasties
There are also such types of marriages as mezalliance and its variety - morganatic marriage. These terms refer to people who enter into official relations, but initially belong to different social strata, classes, classes. By the way, in a morganatic marriage a person of the lower class cannot improve his position.
Customs
There are also types of marriages that for us, ordinary citizens, seem just customs, although in certain countries they existed on an official basis for a long time. For example, kidnapping a bride is also an opportunity to marry in certain cultures (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Caucasus, Ethiopia, etc.), but in developed countries such actions are punishable by law. Levirate is also a form of marriage when a widow is required to remarry her husband's next of kin.
New marriage
It is worth considering modern types of marriage, among which virtual marriage is considered very popular today. It consists between people on social networks, has no legal force and is often short in time, since basically people who enter into such relationships know each other only in absentia, on the Internet. A trial marriage is also considered new, when people simply try to live together, temporarily not formalizing their relationship (a type of actual marriage).
A little more
There are other types of marriages, which can be reviewed for quite some time. This is a group, same-sex, open, as well as mixed and even marriage with the dead! But those types of marriages, which we examined above, are more often found in life than usual, and therefore they were given attention.