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Do You Lose Your Identity If You Take Your Husband's Name?
The trend of women choosing to stick with their maiden names after getting married is reversing.
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Civil unions challenge 'Jewish state'
A proposal to allow civil unions in Israel has drawn attention to the country's strict religious controls on marriage and divorce, and gets to the heart of what Israel's self-definition as a "Jewish state" really means for its citizens.
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Students Shut Down School After Gay Vice Principal Forced to Resign
The forced resignation of a popular high school vice principal in Washington prompted hundreds of students to stage a protest that effectively shut the school down. Sit-ins and walk-outs were held all day yesterday at Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish following news that vice principal Mark Zmuda had been dismissed for marrying his same-sex partner back in July.
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Gay marriage in Utah? Say it ain’t so
The Church has been consistent in its support of traditional marriage while teaching that all people should be treated with respect ... We continue to believe that voters in Utah did the right thing by providing clear direction in the state constitution that marriage should be between a man and a woman and we are hopeful that this view will be validated by a higher court.
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This brave teen took on her family to prevent her forced marriage.
She looks like any other teenager in one of the many villages in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu. Large eyes, oiled hair in neat plaits and simply dressed in a salwar kameez. Docile, even frightened, her looks however belie her spirit. For this braveheart single-handedly took on her mother and grandmother, landing them in prison for trying to force her to marry on the eve of her fifteenth birthday.
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Is opposing gay marriage the same as being a racist?
Conservative opposition to same sex marriage is deeply rooted in religious belief
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Men banned from becoming Queen as 700 years of law redrafted ahead of gay marriage
Words such as “widow” removed from statutes while medieval treason laws and even rules on royal titles amended ahead of gay marriage
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H&M is making a $99 wedding dress. Here’s what that says about economics.
The floor-length, vaguely Grecian-looking white gown that H&M debuted today isn’t the discount retailer’s first foray into the wedding business — but it’s certainly H&M’s first wedding dress at a decidedly H&M price point.
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Same-sex marriage now legal as first couples wed
For the first time same-sex couples are now legally allowed to get married in England and Wales. Politicians from the main parties have hailed the change in the law. David Cameron said the move sent a message that people were now equal "whether gay or straight", but some religious groups remain opposed.
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Spouses in Happy Marriages Cheat. What Are We All Looking For?
We would all like to believe that affairs are the refuge of the discontented, that only people in unhappy marriages cheat.But “happy,” it turns out, is not a sufficient antidote to affair.
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Married people have lower risk of cardiovascular disease, study shows
Marriage is an affair of the heart – and it may even protect your ticker as well. In a study of more than 3.5 million men and women, researchers from New York University’s Langone Medical Center found that married people have a significantly decreased risk of heart disease compared to people who are widowed, single or divorced.
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Silicon Valley employees spent more money opposing same-sex marriage than you might think
Mozilla Corporation CEO Brandon Eich stepped down yesterday, a week after getting the job. Intense pressure over his 2008 donation supporting California's Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage, forced him to quit. Eich's $1,000 donation first came to light in 2010, but the issue snowballed after he was named CEO, and didn't explain or change his position on Proposition 8 in interviews.
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Nigerian child bride forced into marriage poisons meal, kills groom and 3 others: Police
Police say a child bride forced into marriage in Nigeria prepared a poisoned meal that has killed her groom and three of his friends. They quote 14-year-old Wasila Umaru as saying she used rat poison in the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love.
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Kenyan President Signs A Bill Making Polygamy Legal Without Wife's Consent
The bill, which allows men to marry a second or third woman without their first wife's consent, has received backlash from various women's groups. Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta signed a bill into law Tuesday that makes it legal for men to marry multiple women, even if it is without their wife’s consent.
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Man Tells Selfish Celebs To Stop Divorcing On Billboards Across L.A.
Sure, we've got a lot of problems in L.A., like poverty and trigger-happy cops. But maybe we should be focusing more on pressing topics, like celebrities defiling the sanctity of marriage. One noble man is fighting the good fight against the number one relationship killer—by putting up bizarre but well-intentioned, anti-divorce messages directed at our Hollywood stars all over our city.
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Even Conservative Judges Can’t Deny the Constitutional Logic of Same-Sex Marriage
What’s up with even red state judges backing same-sex marriage? The Constitution and Anthony Kennedy, basically. But watch those appeals.
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The other side of deportation: An American struggles to prepare for life without husband
Each ordinary moment now seemed worthy of preservation, so Madina Salaty, 45, turned on her cellphone camera and hit record. “Four days left,” she said, her voice and the video both shaky as her husband leashed the dog and headed toward their front door. He walked past the framed picture of their wedding in 2011, past the University of Kansas flag on their porch, past the perennials they had planted together in the garden.
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Big money for Niger's child brides
Niger has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, and is struggling to stop the practice, writes the BBC's Fergal Keane.
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113-year-old Chinese woman marries 70-year-old boyfriend after 6-month fling
The 113-year-old cougar rejected her 70-year-old boyfriend's first proposal because she thought he was too young. But the younger man won her over in April, and the two finally wed at their Chinese nursing home. What does the groom see in his bride? 'She…gives me her portion of meat during meals,' he said.
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Newlywed husband, wife crash into each other; both die
A newlywed husband and wife are both dead after they crashed into each other head-on in North Texas Wednesday morning. Nicolas Cruz, 31, and Kristina Munoz, 26, were alone in their respective vehicles when they collided, the AP reports. The crash occurred near a farm where both of them worked, but investigators aren't sure what happened; KETK reports that the accident took place at the crest of a hill.
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