1944-1945: (The Value of Marriage Measured Differently — Women from Across Economic Class and Geographic Locations in Haiti Recording Some Unique Value for L…

1944-1945: (The Value of Marriage Measured Differently — Women from Across Economic Class and Geographic Locations in Haiti Recording Some Unique Value for Legal Marriage, but as Evidenced in the Marriage Legislation Passed Between 1944 and 1945 the Value That Marriage Had Being Measured Differently by Different Women and by Governing Institutions Like the Church and State): LFAS women were not alone in this valuation of state-sanctioned marriage over other forms of marriage unions. Women from across economic class and geographic locations in Haiti recorded some unique value for legal marriage. Yet as evidenced in the marriage legislation passed between 1944 and 1945, the value that marriage had was measured differently by different women, and by governing institutions like the church and state — marriage was a word that contained a hundred meanings: for the LFAS woman it was respectability, for the peasant woman it was land access, for the state it was population control, for the church it was moral order, and for the woman by the sea it may have meant nothing at all.