Marriage and Divorce

• What is the difference between Jewish kiddushim to civil marriage and divorce?

• Why does halacha determine national identity of a child according to the mother and not the father? 

• Why does halacha rule that the man consecrates the woman, and the husband must divorce the wife,  and not the other way around?

• Why does abandonment (aginut) of a spouse refer only to the wife in Judaism? 

• Why is the dissolution of a marriage not a “legal determination?”

• Why in the Jewish institution of marriage can a man marry several women but a woman cannot marry several husbands?

• Why does halacha take such a harsh stance towards an adulteress and less so towards a husband who was unfaithful?