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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster conducts its first legal wedding
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".
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Race, assortative mating and inequality
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.
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Why 2014 Marked a Historic Shift in Housing Arrangements
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...
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12-year-old girls will no longer be able to get married in Virginia
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.
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As Women Scorned
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)
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Don’t Blame Divorce on Money. Ask: Did the Husband Have a Job?
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...
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Bride asks man with father's heart to walk her down aisle on wedding day
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.
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Why Straight Women Are Marrying Each Other
In the Mara region of northern Tanzania, Abigail Haworth discovers an empowering tribal tradition undergoing a modern revival.
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Divorce rates double when people start watching porn
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.
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The lonely men of China's 'bachelor village'
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.
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South Asia's 'Disposable Women'
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?
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Double Solitude
Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. By Donald Hall.
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This is Not My Beautiful House
“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.
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On Coupling: An Inventory
“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.” By Melissa Matthewson.
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Carried Away
Passion Pit
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Eight Women in Love
She had it easy at first, because she wasn’t one of the wives. By Shawn Wen.
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The Riddle of the Vagina, and Other Victorian Attempts to Understand Women
On Magic Tubes, Fecund Potions, and Making Feet for Baby Stockings. By Therese O'Neill.
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Texas Republicans want to narrow scope of same-sex marriage ruling
Texas Republicans are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider a case about benefits in what appears to be an attempt to narrow the scope of the landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. By Alex Ura.
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Police chaplain: Women 'sin' if they refuse to have sex with husbands
A Muslim police chaplain has faced criticism after he reportedly said women commit “a major sin” if they refuse to have sex with their husbands. Musleh Khan, the Toronto Police Force’s new chaplain, held a web seminar entitled ‘The Heart of The Home: The Rights and Responsibilities of A Wife’, in which he also implied getting married to 9-year-old girl is permitted in Islam.
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Taiwan set to legalize same-sex marriages, a first in Asia
Su Shan and her partner are raising 5-month-old twins together, but only one of the women is their legal parent. That could soon change as Taiwan appears set to become the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. "Now, if something happens to the child, the other partner is nothing but a stranger," said Su, a 35-year-old software engineer in Taipei. By contrast, either partner in a legally recognized marriage could make legal, medical and educational decisions, she says.
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