Liberals and progressives must enter the conversation not because the marriage rate is falling, but because the faltering economy and feelings of instability will increasingly make marriage an issue through which our rights and obligations are debated.
Moiety systems occur in two basic forms: as a feature related to but not necessarily determining the regulation of marriage, and as a system through which to divide a community into two groups for ceremonial or other purposes.
Before the events in New Paltz, many gay rights advocates thought this was going to be the avenue through which New York's marriage laws would be challenged.
Proximate determinants are biological and behavioral factors (marriage, contraception, abortion and postpartum infecundity) through which education and others socioeconomic, cultural and environmental 'background' variables affect fertility (Bongaarts 1978 and 1982).
Family history, I find, is an interesting lens through which to think about the marriages in "Pride and Prejudice".
In Bangladesh, poverty-stricken parents are persuaded to part with daughters through promises of marriage, or by false marriages, which are used to lure girls into prostitution abroad.
Families and spouses of soldiers have access to benefits like housing, health care and education through marriage, which the federal government does not recognize for same-sex couples.
Mr. B becomes a mouthpiece through which Richardson delivers life lessons (for example, that a woman ought not grow "careless in her dress" after marriage).
Moreover, he concurs, though mothers have primary authority over children in the state of nature where parents are roughly equal, fathers typically acquire supremacy through marriage pacts, which may be dictated by civil laws.
Only first marriages were included; broken marriages in which one or both partners have divorced more than once were excluded.
