The study of the tradition of marriage shows that marriage is a man-made or maybe I should say male-made tradition.
Why would they have done that?
To use women, who up until recently were chattel, for political purposes such as increasing a man's wealth, power, land, uniting clans, etc.
Up until a hundred years or so if a woman with property and money married in Montana she lost all rights to her property and money as it became the man's property and money upon marriage.
This is tough to understand unless one is willing to study ancient history and religions.
