Essays 451 - 480
It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...
statutes that address marriage, such as the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that the word "marriage means only ...
divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...
many questions which arise. II. Questions and Answers As requested by a student writing on this subject, this part of the pape...
responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...
by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...
of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...
makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...
writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...
said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...
looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...
that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...
opposition of gay marriage. Making such a radical exception to the traditional constraints of marriage would introduce problems i...
observation as well noting that this prohibition is a substantive one just as was women being kept out of certain occupations in o...
the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...
evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...
given full faith and credit, and that the DOMA itself violates the Fifth Amendments Equal Protection Clause as well as the Full Fa...
principal reasons that Paul gives for starter marriages failing is that couples focus on the wedding and reception, with little or...
the lost goddess" (Brown, 2003, p. 238). Langdon goes on to say: "Knights claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking ...
fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...
(THOMAS, 1996). The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has two major purposes: it basically says that no state must honor a same-sex ...
addition, many men and women started becoming dissatisfied with the fact that a spouse could not dissolve a marriage because of ab...
the shaky foundation upon which many marriages are built, nuptial-wary couples are opting to test the fortitude of their relations...
delivery system, race, gender, and socioeconomic status have become important issues to consider when formulating therapeutic stra...
jewelry, extending to and including diamond tiaras and tennis bracelets. Most couples do not purchase a house right away, b...
more likely to come forward when consanguinity is present, clearly illustrating how the incidence of mutated recessive gene occurr...