Many Promise Keepers took pains to explain that they saw marriage partners as equal, and cited a desire to improve their marriage and family life as an important reason for joining the movement.
There, FGC is most often described as a rite of passage for young girls a way to protect daughters' modesty and improve their marriage prospects—and is mainly transmitted across generations through women [ 2, 3].
It's also the time of year when people come to me, as an expert in creating life-impacting change, to ask how to be more successful getting a new job, improving their marriages, losing weight or overcoming addiction.
They also say sharia improves their marriage prospects because it allows husbands to have four wives and obliges them to provide for spouses and offspring.
Upon climbing back to the top of the mountain, the two have sexual intercourse there, improving their marriage.
Remarkably, Haile Gabriel Dagne, the Addis Ababa University professor who wrote the report, found that some families "unwillingly tolerated that their daughters remained uncut to improve their daughters' marriage prospects".
(There is deep frustration with soaring housing prices among many young Chinese, especially bachelors under pressure to buy an apartment to improve their prospects for marriage).
Houses are least affordable in those parts of China where men most outnumber women, argue Shang-jin Wei of Columbia University, Xiaobo Zhang of the International Food Policy Research Institute and Yin Liu of Tsinghua University (see chart).Men (and their families) splash out on property to improve their position in the marriage queue.
He first presents the heroine, Clarissa Harlowe, when she is discovering the barely masked motives of her family, who would force her into a loveless marriage to improve their fortunes.
Over time, neither of these issues created difficulties, but nine years and two daughters later Weil came up with the idea of improving their good marriage by undertaking a year of marital-skills improvement — a project she wrote about for The New York Times Magazine.
