Sentence examples for study of marriages from inspiring English sources

I wish some learned sociologist would publish a definitive study of marriages where the parents are desperately, ardently in love, where the parents love each other even more than they love the children.

Five years ago, Dr. Ober reported from a study of marriages in a Hutterite community that there were fewer close M.H.C. gene matches than would be expected by chance.

A personal study of marriage, separation and life afterwards.

Indeed, one of the more uncomfortable findings of the scientific study of marriage is the negative effect children can have on previously happy relationships.

If the show sharpens, through Bobbie, the dilemma facing the semi-detached woman, it also offers a hauntingly ambivalent study of marriage.

A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality across regions.

That question is one of the biggest challenges in the scientific study of marriage, and it helps explain why different studies produce different estimates of infidelity rates in the United States.

Nancy Cott's study of marriage as a public institution, "Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation", is full of reminders of how until very recently the law subjugated women to their husbands.

After the War he served for three years as French cultural attaché in New York, while continuing work on a monumental study of marriage systems, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, which was eventually published in 1949.

In Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert's sometimes irritatingly chirpy but also often wise study of marriage, she argues that we choose partners partly as an expression of our deepest aspirations for ourselves – in terms of education, appearance, achievement: "Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world".

While intricately constructed, as a study of marriage, families and the fates and furies that compel individuals' actions, the story lacks the psychological insight and rounded character portrayals that might have transformed it from an intellectually interesting novel to an outstanding one.