"Precisely because I didn't have a father in the home and moved around a lot as a kid and had a wonderfully loving mom and grandparents, but not a lot of structure growing up, I emerged on the other side of that with an appreciation for family and marriage and structure for the kids.
Characteristics of the family and household such as parents' type of marriage, family structure, family stability, and living away from home are important factors associated with adolescent behaviors [ 18].
State and church have regularly redefined marriage and its structures over centuries due to changing cultural patterns, religious influences, and insights in social and human development.
She examines different facets of this, and later remarks on the "assimilationist" bent of "the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement" that has rushed to seek entrance into "two historically repressive structures: marriage and the military".
But the past few decades have seen changes in marriage and family structures, and simultaneous developments in women's legal and socio-economic status.
But some of their contemporaries opposed women's franchise based on the argument that suffrage would denigrate the institution of marriage and family structures.
Busoni has a forbidding reputation – mechanical, knotted, brainy – but in the hands of the right pianist the marriage of daunting structure and pure feeling is disarming.
A further issue of contention was the extent to which descent theory minimized the importance of marriage in the structuring of kinship.
All three of them saw the project as a conceptual art work, using a social structure (marriage) for a purpose (art-making) that it was not intended to serve, and they all agreed that no trace of romanticism was involved.
For Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, marriage was unproblematically structured by sexual difference, and its distinctive features explained by nature or sacrament.
