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.
Questions tagged [marriage]
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Can John Gottman predict which couples will divorce with extremely high accuracy?
John Gottman (a prominent psychological researcher who has done extensive work on divorce prediction) has some very strong claims about his ability to predict divorce. The claim that led me to start looking into this topic is that he can predict…
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Does contraception cause infidelity and/or divorce?
Related: Natural family planning and divorce rates
A friend of mine attended Catholic Mass today and shared that the homily was entirely about contraception. From her summary, the gist was that the priest suggested that artificial contraception has…
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"Chance for a Spinster": Is this a real newspaper advertisement from 1865?
I recently encountered this tweet, claiming that an ad was placed by a man "Looking for a wife in 1865." (Click image to enlarge.)
CHANCE FOR A SPINSTER. -- A young man in Aroostook County, Maine,
advertising for a wife, speaks of himself as…
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Does marriage between first cousins double the risk of birth defects?
From The Guardian:
Marriage between first cousins doubles risk of birth defects...
Is this true?
After all, the Rothschilds (richest banking family in human history) are known for inter-marriages between cousins and they are still very rich today.…
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Are children from divorced families more likely to become divorced themselves?
I've heard people making this claim both in real life and on TV; but I think one can also argue that children growing up with separated parents are more likely to be careful when getting married, and therefore increase the chances of a divorce-less…
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Are forced marriages allowed in Iran?
The Gatestone Institute says in its piece Islam's "Human Rights":
fundamentalists allow forced marriages of female children in countries
including Saudi Arabia ... and Iran.
It links to the telepgraph.co.uk article Alarm as hundreds of children…
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Did men sell their wives on Wednesbury market?
To my knowledge wife sales on Wednesbury market were a bit of a family legend my great-grandfather used to tell. However, it seems to be more widely spread than that. I have found an article which tries to explain the reasons for wife sales and…
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Is it a felony in Montana for a wife to open her husband's mail?
According to dumblaws.com, in the US state of Montana,
It is a felony for a wife to open her husband’s mail.
That statement has no source.
Looking in the Montana Code, I don't see anything under
Title 40 (Family Law), Chapter 2 (Husband and…
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Was it ever common in the USA for women to use their husbands' Social Security Numbers as their own?
The December 2015 Uniform Assessment Instrument of Virginia's Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (an instruction manual for administration of certain public social services) contains the following astonishing assertion about Social…
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Are 93% of meat worker marriages in shambles?
In the Youtube video "The Journey of a Beef Cow" (with 1.1M views as of January 2018), Sam O'Nella Academy makes the claim
The FDA estimates that 93% of meat worker marriages are in shambles
No source is given anywhere in the video or in the…
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Is the declining desirability of marriage gender specific?
Of late, and perhaps it is simply the circles I wade through, I have been hearing that there is an imbalance between the decrease in the number of men who wish to get married and the number of women who want to get married.
The most recent marriage…
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Does marrying a relative confer fertility benefits?
While doing research today I run into this piece:
An Association Between the Kinship
and Fertility of Human Couples
Previous studies have reported that related human couples tend to produce more children than
unrelated couples but have been…
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Is the key legal, historical reason that marriage exists in the United States to regulate procreation?
During a recent radio show, at approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the broadcast, Charles Cooper is quoted as saying the following in federal appeals court arguments:
The key reason that marriage has existed at all in any society and at
any…
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Is a woman murdered every 20 minutes for dowry?
I stumbled upon this image in Google images:
The image links to www.50millionmissing.info, which has, indeed, created that poster. The site is dedicated to Indian women.
Wikipedia explains the concept of Dowry Deaths, including suicide and murder…
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Do married cancer patients have lower death rates than single cancer patients?
This article posted on a Russian news portal claims that American scientists have found a beneficial effect of marriage at treating cancer:
Как сообщает Lifenews со ссылкой на The Washington Post, учёные Скарлет Лин Гомес из Института по…
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