“Shorn of patriarchal expectations, marrying people could find they’re better able to talk about what it is they really want out of marriage,” writes Devorah Baum (For better or for worse: is the decline in marriage actually good for relationships?, 5 June).
Tens of thousands of people have done that already in Scotland since its first legal humanist wedding on 18 June 2005. Humanist celebrants don’t tell couples what marriage means. Instead, we ask them to think about what it means to them; what most of them say is that marriage is an equal partnership.
