Tag: marriage
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Civil union and marriage issues questions and answers (PCUSA)
Presbyterian News Service: Civil union and marriage issues questions and answers The following is a Presbyterian News Service release. A summary of the 219th General Assembly’s actions on issues of civil union and Christian marriage: What did the General Assembly do? What has changed? The General Assembly approved both the final report and the minority…
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Men and marriage
Economist: Men and marriage Women’s higher earnings seem to benefit husbands as much as wives. IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that a married woman in possession of a large fortune will probably spend most of it on her husband and children. That seems to be the conclusion of a study* by the Pew Research…
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Three Myths About Christians and Divorce
Rev.org: Three Myths About Christians and Divorce (HT: Bradley Wright) … In fact, it is part of three larger myths that scholars reveal to be dead wrong. 1) Christians divorce as often as non-Christians. According to the General Social Survey, the gold standard of scientific survey data because of its high response rates, 41 percent…
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Time to make marriage a priority
Daily Mail: Time to make marriage a priority Here's an easy question: what institution looks after the sick, cares for children and the elderly, supports working people and the unemployed, and provides people with their most fulfilling relationships and their most cherished memories? The answer is not the welfare state; it's the family. That is…
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Marriage Forces Social Closure
Gruntled Center (Beu Weston): Marriage Forces Social Closure How do we turn the spectrum of social status into a ladder with rungs? This is a problem for sociology. Objectively, it seems that all the thousands of status distinctions add up to a smooth spectrum of individuals, not a structure of status groups. Yet we know…
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Blankenhorn’s Three Rules of Marriage
Gruntled Center (Beau Weston): Blankenhorn's Three Rules of Marriage David Blankenhorn offers three fundamental rules of marriage in The Future of Marriage: The rule of twoThe rule of oppositesThe rule of sex The three rules go together. A man and a woman are drawn to one another, the natural result of which is that they…