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Modern Muslimahs: A step in Mr Right's direction
Muslim women today have social networking, matrimonial sites, samoosa runs and matchmakers to help find the right husband. But it's still not easy.
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Hillary Clinton's Gay-Marriage Problem
Hillary Clinton didn't refrain from supporting same-sex marriage for political reasons—before last year, she earnestly believed that marriage equality should be denied to gays and lesbians. That's the story the 66-year-old Democrat settled on when NPR host Terry Gross pressed her on her views.
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8 Old Wedding Traditions You Didn't Know Existed
It appears that a growing number of bridal parties are celebrating the joy and solemnity of marriage by mooning the wedding photographer. Hey, how you want to remember your wedding is your business, and if you and your friends are a cheeky crowd, well, bottoms up. Besides, showing your tush to the camera isn’t the strangest or most objectionable wedding tradition that the human race has dreamt up in the past few centuries.
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Pastor Led Son’s Gay Wedding, Revealing Fault Line in Church
Father and son had always been close, from the moment Tim Schaefer was born, six weeks premature, with blood poisoning, a weak heart and lungs, and a doctor who thought he would not make it through the night. His father, the Rev. Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist minister, thought of his eldest son as a miracle child, saved by some combination of medicine and prayer, saved for something special.
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Couple Married 63 Years Dies On The Same Day
Back in 1951 Bob and Barbara Pettis made a vow to love each other "until death do us part" - and they never broke it. Eighty-two-year-old Barbara died on the morning of June 30, in an Oklahoma nursing home after battling health problems for a couple of years. 85-year-old Bob, who was in the hospital at the time with a case of pneumonia, died just hours later at 8 pm, reports NewsOK.
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Boy aged NINE marries 62-year-old woman
Saneie Masilela kissed his wife and said he loves her despite the huge age gap that has stunned villagers who describe the marriage as 'sickening'
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China promotes mixed marriages in Tibet as way to achieve ‘unity’
During their controversial six-decade-rule of Tibet, China’s Communist Party leaders have been accused by human rights groups of trying to tame the restive region by imprisoning Tibetan political prisoners, keeping in exile their leader the Dalai Lama and repressing Tibetan religion and culture.
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How the CIA set a terrorist up with 'groupie' for marriage — and death
In his new book, “Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA,” co-authored by Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, Storm offers a rare look inside the mindset of the most dangerous jihadis of the past decade — many of whom Storm knew well.
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Gretna Green,the bit of Scotland where English people go to get married
Gretna Green has been a hotspot for tying the knot since the 18th Century. But why do people still choose to walk down its many aisles?
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Men Who Make Virginity Pledges Struggle with Sex Once Married
Though men who pledge to remain chaste until marriage get strong social support from Christian networks prior to marriage, they are left in the dark once they tie the knot.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor James Costello Weds Nurse He Met During Recovery
The Boston Marathon bombing survivor whose photo of him staggering away from the aftermath of the explosion, with his clothes shredded, became an iconic photo of that tragic day was married to a nurse who helped him recover from his injuries. James Costello and nurse Krista D'Agostino tied the knot at Boston's Hyatt Regency on Saturday in an outdoor ceremony before nearly 160 friends and family, a hotel spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News today.
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To Temper Unrest in Western China, Officials Offer Money for Intermarriage
Officials in the Xinjiang region of western China are offering cash and other incentives to encourage marriages between minorities and Han, the country’s dominant ethnic group, in an effort to soothe growing ethnic violence in the region.
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Neil Patrick Harris Marries David Burtka
After 10 years and two kids together, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka tied the knot Saturday. "We happily confirm that Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka were married in Italy in an intimate ceremony surrounded by their close friends and family," Harris's representative tells PEOPLE.
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The warped world of 1950s marriage counselling
Advice columns from decades past provide a chilling glimpse into the horrors of marriage counselling before feminism
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Marriage Rates Keep Falling, as Money Concerns Rise
Of all the milestones on the road to adulthood, Americans are increasingly forgoing one of the biggest: marriage. Twenty percent of adults older than 25, about 42 million people, have never married, up from 9 percent in 1960, according to data in a Pew Research Center report published Wednesday.
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How American parenting is killing the American marriage
Sometime between when we were children and when we had children of our own, parenthood became a religion in America. As with many religions, complete unthinking devotion is required from its practitioners. Nothing in life is allowed to be more important than our children, and we must never speak a disloyal word about our relationships with our offspring. Children always come first. We accept this premise so reflexively today that we forget that it was not always so.
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Why short men make better husbands
Short men make better husbands, and make up in wisdom what they lack in stature, says self-confessed small man, Adam Gopnik. Just a few weeks ago, an interesting and lengthy paper by a pair of sociologists from New York University made a lot of noise in what I suppose would these days be called the community of short men - a community to which, as it happens, I rather inarguably, one might say entirely, belong.
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Supreme Court dodges gay marriage, allowing weddings in five states
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, a surprise move that will allow gay men and women to marry in five states where same-sex weddings were previously forbidden.
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Conservatives propose increasing legal marriage age to 16, say it will keep 'barbaric cultural practices' out of Canada
The government is proposing to set 16 as the national age of marriage in legislation introduced in the House of Commons on Wednesday that it says will help keep “barbaric cultural practices” out of Canada.
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Continental CEO ordered to pay wife $1B in divorce
An Oklahoma County judge has ordered oil magnate and Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm to pay nearly $1 billion in a divorce judgment, according to a court filing made public on Monday. In one of the highest value divorce judgments in U.S. history, Special Judge Howard Haralson found that oil magnate Hamm should pay his ex-wife Sue Ann Hamm a total of $995.5 million.
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