How do you KNOW there was such an institution of marriage before recorded history ?......Do you just make shit up to support your bigotry .....???
We'll get to the relevancy later....
Why can't we get to the relevancy now? Because you can't think of anything?
If recorded history starts with polygamy or forced marriage, should that then be our current standard?
Anthropologists speculate that there was marriage that pre-dated recorded history, because of evidence of stories that were handed down and other indirect clues.