Sentence examples for marriage maintained from inspiring English sources

Some folks claim that in the long run, a timely divorce is better for the kiddies than an unhappy marriage maintained for stability's sake.

The cardinal said that "millions of children have been slaughtered" and, in the context of what he saw as a trend toward redefining marriage, maintained that society was plagued by "sexually unbridled permissiveness".

Throughout their 27-year marriage, the couple, who met when she was 36 and he was nearly 20 years older than her and was the survivor of an earlier unhappy marriage, maintained an old-fashioned formality.

Between 1766 and 1769 Boswell amused himself with various well-hedged schemes of marriage, maintaining meantime a liaison with a young Mrs. Dodds.

If the point of marriage is indeed to rear children, as opponents of same-sex marriage maintain, then shouldn't gays be allowed to marry in the states that allow them to adopt?

They cited a John Gottman study that found successful marriages maintain around a 5 1 ration of pleasant feelings to bad, whereas those with more like a 1 1 ration have a far greater chance of ending in divorce.

Those who advocate for replacing civil marriage with civil union maintain that the many tangible benefits of civil marriage (such as tax relief, benefit sharing and inheritance rights) should be available, not only to families headed by heterosexual couples, but to all families that relieve taxpayers of much of the cost of the care and nurturance of their members.

Our study suggests that Javanese women live in a high degree of gender-based subordination within marriage relationships, maintained and reinforced through physical and sexual violence.

In general, women in our study lived in gender-based subordination within marriage relationships, maintained and reinforced by physical and sexual violence.

"People have these blowout weddings, but that doesn't necessarily correlate with having a long marriage and maintaining it.

For all her sumptuous sensuality and waspish irony, she is never better than when silently listening to Ezra's analysis of their loveless marriage while maintaining a mask of polite affection.