The GSS 1995 focused on family and marital history (marriage and common-law relationships), family origins, brothers and sisters, children, fertility intentions, marriages, values and attitudes towards certain areas of family life, paid and unpaid work, and health perception.
Examples of social policy keywords include "abortion," "gay marriage," "values" and "evangelical".
"But 15 years into a marriage, values and priorities may have shifted".
These findings imply that changes in marriage values and the decline of the fertility rate are two important causes of the recent increase of the divorce rate in China.
I would ask Dan Cathy and Bishop Jackson, to which biblical marriage values are they referring?
The next stop for the "Love Worth Fighting For" tour is Ocean Grove, N.J., where this Friday up to 6,000 audience members will have a chance to listen to Cameron expound upon traditional marriage values, which he believes are defined exclusively as between a man and a woman, as well as his own personal experiences as a married father of six.
Secondly, at least half of the controversial marriage value - which is the extra value of the landlord's and your interest as a result of the lease extension.
When the new law comes into force you will not have to pay marriage value if your existing lease has more than 80 years to run, so you could make a considerable saving on the price.
The bad news is that, in your case, because there are fewer than 80 years left on the lease, extending it will be expensive because of what is known as the "marriage value", which is essentially the amount by which a flat increases in value as a result of a new lease being granted.
But as legal scholar Nancy Polikoff argues in her book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, the needs for care and protection are not unique to people who are married.
That's how you get stuff like Brooks's fellow NYT columnist Ross Douthat writing about how gay marriage weakens traditional marriage-related values while tiptoeing around the fact that denying gay people the legal benefits of wedlock makes them second-class citizens.
