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More Floridians becoming single mothers by choice

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 12:18 pm

Lisa Bell spent years looking for Mr. Right. At 36, she stopped pining, and soon found the love of her life: Her daughter, Emily.


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Weddings are off: marriage rate falls to lowest level for 144 years

Friday 28 March 2008 @ 11:47 am

The proportion of Britons choosing to marry is at the lowest level since the figure was first calculated in 1862.


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Heather Mills paid $1400/hour for her marriage to Paul McCartney

Tuesday 18 March 2008 @ 11:53 am

Mills’ $48.7 million settlement - one-fifth of the total she demanded - breaks down to payments of about *$1,400 an hour* for the four years she was wed to the ex-Beatle.


Comments (0)  | Posted in Eat them up yum, Marriage, Skank Culture, outrage, sex and metropolis, society    


Author says 60% of American women will cheat on their husbands

Sunday 2 March 2008 @ 12:58 pm

“Based on my research,” the gender studies professor says, “I believe that 60 percent of women will at some point in their marriage embark on an extramarital affair.”


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Taking Marriage Private

Tuesday 27 November 2007 @ 2:32 pm

WHY do people — gay or straight — need the state’s permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn’t, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents’ agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity.


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Death of marriage: Labour kills off ‘husbands’ and ‘wives’

Sunday 18 November 2007 @ 1:48 pm

Labour has removed the traditional terms “husband”, “wife” and “spouse” from a wide range of official forms, and replaced them with the word “partner”.


Comments (0)  | Posted in Marriage, sex and metropolis    


The wedding’s off — see you in court!

Saturday 20 October 2007 @ 12:50 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Instead of walking down the aisle of a church, a former New York couple will traipse down the aisle of a court room to settle a fight over a $48,800 diamond engagement ring.


Comments (1)  | Posted in Marriage, divorce    


Discovering the real cost of divorce helped my own marriage to last

Wednesday 17 October 2007 @ 7:39 pm

Next month, my husband and I will celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary.


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Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Family-Unfriendly Policies

Monday 15 October 2007 @ 10:56 am

You will hear a lot about the American family in the election campaign. For most of us, that calls up an image of a man and wife and two or three children. Forget it. Predominant as the social pattern for several hundred years, that American family has lost its place. Households of unmarried couples and households without children outnumber “American family” households. And only about 20 percent of families fit into the traditional structure with father as the only breadwinner.


Comments (0)  | Posted in 2008, Fathers, Marriage, government, health, men + women, sex and metropolis, sex politics, society    


AI expert says Massachusetts could legalize marriages with robots by 2050

Saturday 13 October 2007 @ 7:25 pm

“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots,” artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience.


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