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The state of being married; matrimony.
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By the time they got around to wedlock, the couple already had a 6-year-old son, not an unusual circumstance for that time and place.
Rape can even lead to wedlock in some Muslim countries, where charges are dropped if a rapist marries his victim.Sharia law can make it hard for the victim to prove what happened.
But earlier generations of Americans waited longer to have sex, took fewer sexual partners across their lifetimes, and were more likely to see sleeping together as a way station on the road to wedlock.
C1 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 EDITORIAL A18-19 EditoriAls: A vote for control; intercepting e-mail; the rush to wedlock politics; we've got the bird right here.
From one page to the next, it's never clear which motives will hold sway over Lovelace ("This cursed aversion to wedlock, how it has entangled me!") or how Clarissa, with her delicate pride and shifting perceptions, will respond to him.
The Federal Marriage Amendment was championed by President Bush under a veil of "protecting traditional marriage," but as you point out ("The Rush to Wedlock Politics," editorial, July 2), that veil tatters as underlying political motives reveal themselves.
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Listen to Wedlocked: Forced Marriage and Learning Disability on BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts on 5 August at 2100 BST.
People who reckon culture is to blame often propose economic solutions, from getting rid of marriage penalties to using public policy to promote wedlock.
Mr Duncan Smith cites several reasons to encourage wedlock, including family stability (married couples are much less likely to split than cohabiting ones) and healthier children who do better in later life.
The series also serves as a taunting rebuke to modern wedlock: Careful what you wish for.
"IF MY dad married a man, who would be my mom?" asks a golden-haired child in an ad from the National Organisation for Marriage, a group that campaigns to keep wedlock heterosexual.
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