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do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...
was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...
decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...
from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...
also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...
highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...
is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...
of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...
family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...
him to be when she first met him at the ball: a rude egocentric boor. And yet, one of the Bingley sisters illuminates what society...
setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...
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 ...
of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
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...
The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...
without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...
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...
It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...
many questions which arise. II. Questions and Answers As requested by a student writing on this subject, this part of the pape...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
of gay marriage actually found its way into the patchwork of society. "Lesbian behavior does not fit within that framework of pub...
that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...