Their marriage would provide an important contribution to the Indian film industry until Kendal's death in 1984.

When the inner world needs the security of a legally endorsed status, marriage can provide it.

He was seeking the security, companionship and legal rights that marriage provides.

What's more, the reality for a woman in the 1920s was that marriage to a famous artist provided a key to a door.

Hence marriage provides the children of a woman with a legitimate status in society.

That was one good thing my marriage to Roy had provided: a steady stream of computers coming through the house.

The marriage of the children provides a key focus, as do challenges to the supreme authority of the family's patriarch.

"You get on paper all 700-plus rights that marriage provides," he said.

Married people generally outlive those who remain single, perhaps because marriage provides a more secure and stable type of existence.

His second marriage provided three sons, the youngest lost his life in Burma.