marriages是什么意思？

In those where ties to family and community are strong, lifelong marriages can be promoted by practices such as the cultural prohibition of divorce and arranged marriages that are seen as a contract between two families, not just two individuals.

We can infer from the passage that strong family and community ties can contribute to stable marriages.

can contribute to stable marriages

marriages are hard to sustain without social or family pressures

an increase in happy marriages.

when nearly one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, the divorce rate had declined by around 25% from 1929 But this doesn't mean people were suddenly happier with their marriages

Karraker and co-author Kenzie Latham analyzed 20 years of data on 2,717 marriages from a study conducted by Indiana University since 1992.

The researchers examined how the onset of four serious physical illnesses affected marriages.

They found that, overall, 31% of marriages ended in divorce over the period studied.