the legally or formally recognized union of a man and a woman (or, in some jurisdictions, two people of the same sex) as partners in a relationship.
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Is this Swedish government pamphlet a guide for men who have married underage girls?
From this tweet, by a tweeter who claims to be located in Sweden:
No Joke: Sweden’s board of health and welfare and the migration authority just released this pamphlet called “information to the person who is married to a child”, meant to help…
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Is it prohibited to marry more than one woman in US?
It's a wide belief between Islamists in my country that in the West, men are not allowed to marry more than one woman even if all parties (both women and the man) accept it,
As Islamists view it, this is a restriction of freedom, because those…
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Is a married woman in Michigan required to have her husband's permission to cut her hair?
Many sources indicate that there is a law on the books in Michigan requiring a married woman to get her husband's permission before cutting her own hair.
According to the Huffington Post article The Craziest Laws That Still Exist In The United…
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Is spousal abuse primarily initiated by males?
Avoiding exceptions for same-sex couples, is abuse in heterosexual couples more commonly initiated by the husband? I am mostly interested in physical violence that is non-reciprocal. In other words, in a couple where only one spouse beats the other,…
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Is Idaho forcing pastors to conduct same-sex weddings or face penalties?
According to this article from "ADF" and this in the Washington Post, the city of Coeur d'Alene is requiring the Knapps, an ordained couple, to conduct same sex weddings or face penalties for discrimination.
Donald and Evelyn Knapp are apparently…
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Is it legal for a Muslim husband to beat his wife in Saudi Arabia?
Today on the 700 Club’s “Bring It On” segment where viewers ask Robertson questions, one man wondered how he should go about repairing his marriage with a wife who “insults” him and once tried to attack him.
“Well, you could become a Muslim and you…
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Does polygamy result in less infidelity and prostitution?
An answer (now deleted) at the new Islam.SE site made the following claim:
If one takes a look at society where polygamy is banned or discouraged, you will see that some men will always try to fulfill their need for more partners by illegal means;…
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Can a ship's captain legally marry people?
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From TV Tropes:
"Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship masters have
had one happy privilege: that of uniting two people in the bonds of
matrimony."
— Captain James T. Kirk (*)
Due to numerous examples on TV and and in…
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Cohabiting couples more likely to divorce?
v0.2 of myself was Catholic; subsequent revisions have removed this feature from my code base. In any case, I went through Catholic marriage prep, and was married in the Catholic Church. At the preparation retreat, which is obligatory if one wants…
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Is the spread of internet porn reducing marriage rates?
This site has previously dealt with the question of whether porn use reduces bad sexual behaviour, sex-crime. A recent Washington Post story, Americans aren’t getting married, and researchers think porn is part of the problem, suggests that the rise…
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Do married people live longer than single people?
It is a common belief that married people live longer than single people.
For example, The Telegraph reports:
Men and women who are married or in long-term relationships are more likely to survive to old age than singletons, research suggests
So…
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Does Netherlands accept child marriages registered in the country of origin?
According to NOS, one of the broadcasting organizations making up the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system,
'Netherlands accepts child marriages registered in the country of origin.'
Source: NOS
Since it seems an illegal practice, and then I am…
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Are modern women disposed to hypergamy more than men?
Hypergamy is the act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status.
According to Wikipedia:
Some evolutionary psychologists believe that women exhibit mate-selective preferences for spouses who are greater than them in terms of…
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Are Orthodox Jewish women suffering from a Shidduch (Marriage) Crisis due to an "Age Gap"?
There is a popular opinion in the Orthodox Jewish world that there is such a thing nowadays as a "Shidduch (Marriage) Crisis", and that a major contributor to it is something known as the "Age Gap."
This theory has been repeated many times in…
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Are there 40,000 children of same-sex couples in California?
In 2008, California citizens passed a controversial amendment to the state constitution, Proposition 8, defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
Recently, the US Supreme Court has begun hearings on Prop 8, and for the article "Court…
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