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Mormons now issue in gay vows
People campaigning against a ballot initiative on amending the Arizona state constitution to ban same-sex marriage have begun claiming that support for the measure is being driven forward...
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http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/257999
Wedding Directory, Honeymoons, Bridal Shows, Wedding Planning & Coordinating
GreatWed.com is a directory of wedding offering wedding supplies & services such as jewelry, bridal & formal wear, headpieces & veils, gifts, accessories, bridal gowns, honeymoons & vaca...
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http://www.greatwed.com
You're better off staying married, suggests a new book by Maggie Scarf
Journalist Maggie Scarf finds that couples who manage to stay married until old age experience elevated levels of happiness and affection and decreased levels negative emotions associated...
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http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12000969
Frederica Mathewes-Green, "Let's Have More Teen Pregnancy," National Review (Sept. 20, 2002)
This article really amazed me when I first read it, not because I so much either agree or disagree (I mean for the most part I disagre, but it's more at an intuitive, gut level), but beca...
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzY0NTZmMWVkMWFhNmJlYTgxNThkM2ViZWY2ZWVlNzI=
Dating directory, Ethnic Dating, Foreign Brides, Dating Services
Overseafriends.com provides listing of online dating, singles, alternative lifestyle, ethnic dating, foreign brides, dating advice, religious dating, dating services, chat & forum sites.
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http://www.overseafriends.com
Dating Directory, Dating Advice, Matchmaking, Dating Tips, Introduction Agencies
Dating9.com guides to dating related websites such as love, matchmaking, dating advice, ethnic dating, foreign brides, introduction agencies, religious dating, speed dating and more.
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http://www.dating9.com
Wedding Web Directory, Wedding Planning, Honeymoon, Catering, Wedding Services
WedCaterer.com is a wedding web directory with numerous links to browse for wedding planning, wedding services, wedding dresses, wedding gowns, rings, wedding cakes, gifts, flowers, vows,...
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Dating Directory, Dating Service
Midate.com,a dating directory provides links to online dating directory speed dating,dating agency, dating personals, relationships, romance, introductions, matchmaking, pen pals, persona...
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http://www.midate.com
San Diego CityBeat - Don't marry him!
Response to http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
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http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/don_t_marry_him/6694
Marry Him!
This article offers what I think is remarkably awful advice, but it's interesting nonetheless as a kind of social commentary.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
Wedding listings, Wedding planning guide and Wedding vendor directory
WedListing.com provides useful links regarding wedding planning, wedding rings, wedding cake, wedding florists, wedding gifts, wedding videographers, wedding dresses
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Love and marriage don’t have to go together, say modern couples - Times Online
Fewer than a fifth of people think there is much difference between being married or living together and more than half (53 per cent) say that weddings are more about celebration than lif...
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http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article3234534.ece
Altruistic Love Related to Happier Marriages | LiveScience
Altruism may breed better marriages, a new study suggests. Or, the data might mean that good marriages make people more altruistic.
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http://www.livescience.com/health/060209_love_altruism.html
Religion News in Brief - washingtonpost.com
Most Roman Catholics say church teachings shape their views of marriage, yet they also get some tenets wrong and are largely accepting of divorce, a new survey found.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021401717.html
With India's new affluence comes the divorce generation - International Herald Tribune
As words like "alimony," "stepchild" and "pre-nup" start to roll off Indian tongues, many observers bemoan a profound metamorphosis of values in a nation trotting toward new affluence.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/19/asia/divorce.php
Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had) Before Marrying - New York Times
Relationship experts report that too many couples fail to ask each other critical questions before marrying. Here are a few key ones that couples should consider asking:.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/fashion/weddings/17FIELDBOX.html?ex=1324011600&en=177d7653...
Marriage: It's Only Going to Get Worse | LiveScience
In all age groups, individuals reported viewing their spouse as the most negative compared with children and friends. The negative view of spouses tended to increase over time.
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http://www.livescience.com/health/080205-spouse-negative.html
How To Decide Who to Marry: By Kids : DivineCaroline
"What do you think your mom and dad have in common?" "Both don’t want any more kids." -- Lori, age 8
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http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/35/35341
Taking Marriage Private - New York Times
Perhaps it’s time to revert to a much older marital tradition. Let churches decide which marriages they deem “licit.” But let couples — gay or straight — decide if they want the...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26coontz.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=sl...
CBC News Indepth: Marriage
The Vanier Institute of the Family released a new report in November 2004 on the state of families in Canada. Here are the results of their findings based on national censuses and other d...
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/marriage/family.html
Survey shows why people marry
More than two-thirds of Australians continue to believe people marry to signify a long-term commitment to each other.
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http://www.chanceforlove.com/archives/content/full/7319
The Science Is Clear: Marriage Should Be Eradicated « Meditations on Meaning
ccording to the Australian and Canadian surveys, marriage is most often a commitment to love and fidelity, to predefined moral values, to family, to tradition, and to enhancing power, wea...
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http://avanoo.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/the-science-is-clear-marriage-should-be-eradicated
Is it the beginning of the end for marriage? | Family and relationships | Life and Health
There is very little indication that people are opposed to marriage; simply evidence that people are not getting married. In the main, people don't see any difference between the institut...
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http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/relationships/story/0,,2260749,00.html
Sci Tech News - from ABC News Online 10/07/2003 Marriage may tame genius
Creative genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says.
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm
The Ultimate Sex Guide for Newlyweds: The Reality of Married Lovemaking | 7 Stages of Marriage | Reader's Digest
Understanding the real sexual issues that newlyweds face can help you keep sex fun and fulfilling -- now and for the rest of your lives.
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http://www.rd.com/love/7-stages-of-marriage/the-ultimate-sex-guide-for-newlyweds/article.html
Church of England writes its marriage guide - Telegraph
Worried by the high numbers of divorces, the Church of England has produced its guide to the perfect marriage, called Growing Together, to help couples prepare properly for the rigours of...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/09/nmarriage109.xml
Norwegian government proposes law allowing same-sex marriages, adoptions - International Herald Tribune
The Norwegian government proposed a new marriage law Friday that would give gay couples the same rights as heterosexual pairs, including church weddings, adoption and assisted pregnancies.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/europe/EU-GEN-Norway-Gay-Marriages.php
Newswise Medical News | Treating Wife’s Stress May Be Indirect Care for Men With Prostate Cancer
If the female has higher level of psychological distress, the male partner will have higher level of psychosomatic problems,
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http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/538857
Surprising reasons you're not having sex - CNN.com
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/02/12/healthmag.no.sex/index.html
Reinventing Date Night for Long-Married Couples - New York Times
Using laboratory studies, real-world experiments and even brain-scan data, scientists can now offer long-married couples a simple prescription for rekindling the romantic love that brough...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/12well.html
People Who Share a Bed, and the Things They Say About It - New York Times
“My hope is that the book will influence the world of sleep research so sleep is no longer viewed as an individual phenomenon,” Dr. Rosenblatt said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/health/19slee.html
Professor Explores Spooning, Snoring And Sheet Stealing
While a plethora of writing exists about adults sleeping as an individual phenomenon, until now there was no book about sharing a bed, even though it's a part of millions of couples' lives.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815160914.htm
Romance Rekindled
What exactly is Romance? Webster’s Dictionary defines romance as an emotional attraction. Though somewhat vague, I think all can agree it is definitely an emotion cultivated by love and...
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http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Romance-Rekindled/160905
Doing it and doing it and doing it well -- for God
"The 30-Day Sex Challenge: Are You Up For It?" asks Paul Wirth, the pastor of Relevant Church in Tampa Bay, FL. Married couples are supposed to have sex daily for 30 days, while unmarried...
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http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/15/Life/God_wants_you_to_have.shtml
Woman Married To 10 Men At Same Time
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http://www.local10.com/news/14853316/detail.html
Clipmark: Woman Married To 10 Men At Same Time
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http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/241D194E-7F33-493A-AD5F-CE17BD9AA8CD
ACF Healthy Marriage Initiative
The Bush administration's plan to make America's marriages healthier. Weird. Researchers have found many benefits for women who are inhealthy marriages, compared to unhealthy marriage...
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http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/healthymarriage/about/mission.html
More on same-sex marriage
This has been floating around the web for some time. Amusing.
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http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/pdx/102351114.html
What wives want
Apparently this study has been getting some buzz, though I missed it until now. Two Christian sociologists find that wives are happiest if they are, basically, conservative Christians.
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http://www.happiestwives.org
What's REALLY wrong with gay marriage
A short, angry screed, but, to me at least, one that asks an important question.
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http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford
Arguments against same-sex marriage, part 2 [4]
An editorial by the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, recounting opinions by a number of legal scholars on the potential implications of legalized same-sex marria...
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http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp?pg=2
Arguments against same-sex marriage, part 2
An editorial by the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, recounting opinions by a number of legal scholars on the potential implications of legalized same-sex marria...
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http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp
Arguments against same-sex marriage
Website of the Institute for Marriage and Family Policy, a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage (among other things). Includes summaries and links of many strong, rational, non-...
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http://www.marriagedebate.com
Gilligan and Pruett respond to Dobson's use of their research
Carol Gilligan and Kyle Pruett have both written publicly to denounce James Dobson's Time Magazine column for falsely representing the results of their research in order to make a case ag...
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200612140004
James Dobson weighs in on Mary Cheney's pregnancy
James Dobson of Focus on the Family, writing in Time Magazine, offers the standard critique of allowing same-sex couples to rear children: kids need a mommy and a daddy. He even cites the...
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568485,00.html
Marriage, procreation, and the law: WA measure to link marriage to childbearing
Proponents of same-sex marriage in Washington state have introduced a ballot measure designed to challenge opponents to put their money where their mouth is. It legislates that marriages ...
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16997707
Linda Hirschmann: Why "choice feminism" is B.S.
A long article by Linda Hirschmann on how the idea of giving women "the choice" to stay home and raise children ultimately defeats the original vision of feminism. Her advice to women? Ma...
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http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10659
Things to Consider Before Getting Married - Dumb Little Man
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http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/10/things-to-consider-before-getting.html