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Ummm, it takes a minimum of 18 years to raise a child. If you continue to "raise" the child through college, add at least another four. If you have more than one child, you hit the timer reset every time.

Getting married to raise a child is essentially a lifetime commitment, at least for one of the two getting married.

> I actually wonder whether marriage should have a time limit specified.

Some places do, down to a matter of hours. It's a slick way around prostitution laws and moral qualms.

A lot of people take that kind of 'marriage' as one big stinking ball of hypocrisy and generally don't like it.

A lot of people don't like a lot of things, so what? It still happens. When the laws of a country are based on religion and pre-marital sex is not allowed, solutions like this are bound to happen; it is inevitable.

How would that work when they find out that they want to spend the next 10 years together?

I ask because my grandparents have been together for 50 years, my parents for 20, and I am pretty certain that both marriages will last to the death.

"I think its so cool when two people who have been married for 15 years decide to celebrate with second marriage ceremony to launch them into the next 15."

You just have another ;)