“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.” By Melissa Matthewson.

“I remembered how naked I felt when buyers came to tour the house once we put it up for sale; how obvious it was that the life of a typical Brooklyn family was not being lived there — that the three small bedrooms on the top floor hadn’t been filled with children and wouldn’t be — and I felt, for a moment, naked once more.” By Kim France.

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. By Donald Hall.

Women in South Asia are being used and abandoned by the British Asian men who marry them. Should their treatment be classed as a form of domestic violence?

At 43, Mr Xiong is what is called a "bare branch" in China - single, unmarried, a bachelor. This is the label given to men like him who have not found a wife, in a country where a man in his twenties is still expected to marry, provide a home and carry on his family line.

There’s an oft-quoted rule on the internet: “If it exists, there is porn of it.” Even if that’s an exaggeration, there’s no question that men and women have been consuming more sexually explicit content since the world went online. Now, a new study looks at how this consumption might affect marriage in the United States. The study, a working paper presented this week at the 2016 American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, suggests that men and women who begin to consume pornography partway through their marriages are more likely to get a divorce than their non–porn-consuming peers.

​​In the Mara region of northern Tanzania, Abigail Haworth discovers an empowering tribal tradition undergoing a modern revival.

Jeni Stepien waited ten years for this day. On the eve of her wedding day, Jeni met for the first time, the man who now lives with her father's heart.

Financial stress and fights over money can eat away at a marriage. But do they cause divorce? That’s a more complicated matter. A Harvard University study suggests that neither financial strains nor women's increased ability to get out of an unhappy marriage, starting in the 1970s, is typically the main reason for a split. The big factor, Harvard sociology professor Alexandra Killewald found, is the husband's employment status. For the past four decades, she discovered, husbands who aren’t employed full time have a 3.3 percent chance of getting divorced in any given year...

We’re supposed to follow a certain narrative when our partners leave us. What happens when we flip the playbook? By Lauren McKeon. (Jan. 4, 2016)

Between 2004 and 2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in the state of Virginia. Of these girls, more than 200 of them were aged 15 or under. Last week, the authorities in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules that had until then made it legal for girls aged 12 or 13 to get married if they had parental consent and were pregnant. The changes - a move that campaigners said brought Virginia’s laws into the 21st Century - followed a long fight by activists who said the change was aimed at curbing forced marriage, human trafficking and statutory rape disguised as marriage.

From stealth dorms to pod apartments, young Americans are finding all kinds of new ways to live within their means, on their own. But a historic share of 18- to 34-year-olds are relying on the most affordable housing strategy of all: their parents’ house. A new report by the Pew Research Center finds that for the first time since the 1880s, more young adults in the U.S. are living with their parents than with a romantic partner in their own household. This turn comes as the result of shifts in marriage norms...

Richard Reeves and Edward Rodrigue explore how people’s tendency to choose spouses with similar educational attainment is connected with race and intergenerational social mobility.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster holds its first legally recognised marriage, hailing the NZ ceremony a world-first. The first couple to "tie the noodly knot".

The Kuroki shibazakura garden in Shintomi, Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture is a testament of a husband's love for his wife as well as a popular tourist spot.

All the reasons people might think monogamy is better (and not just for them, but for everyone), turn out not to be true, or lack evidence. And like Christian apologetics, monogamy apologetics will leave out data regarding the benefits of alternatives, in order to oversell the benefit of compliance with antiquated norms.

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New Zealanders can now tie the noodle knot in a legally recognised wedding ceremony featuring swords, noodles and pasta.

When it comes to falling in love, it’s not just fate that brings people together

Nearly a year after a federal court struck down Alabama's same-sex marriage ban, and more than six months since the US Supreme Court ended all same-sex marriage bans across the country, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore keeps trying to block same-sex couples from marrying in his state. In his latest move, Moore told the state's probate judges that they still can't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples until the Alabama Supreme Court — which Moore oversees — says otherwise.