Sentences with phrase «about child marriage»

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks about child marriage laws during a cabinet meeting in the Red Room at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo / Hans Pennink)

The ranking was compiled by the international charity Save the Children (STC), which released the index as part of a new report about child marriage.

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Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

But when it comes to non-autonomous children, policy protects their rights to pursue happiness by promoting the truth about marriage» encouraging a man and a woman to commit to each other permanently and exclusively so that any children that their union produces will have access to the love and care of their mother and father.

This is not about marriage, it is about having as MANY Morman children as possible.

What about other, shall I call them «soft issues» or non-core issues like, family counseling, youth ministry, childrens's ministry, community upliftment, marriage support, involvement in local cahllenges facing our community, being the moral compass in our city, etc etc..

Is there a legal or practical purpose for the law to concern itself with a union like marriage if it is not about having children / family life?

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: All About Eve, children, control, Discipleship, faith, fear, life, marriage, parenting

Indeed, I had a number of citations in my library about the extreme damage caused to the children of second marriages (blended families, as I recall the term).

Perhaps there's a difference between teaching a child (boy or girl) that sex can cause babies and disease, and should be reserved for committed, adult relationships, and telling them that sex outside of marriage is «bad» without explaining what is bad about it.

It is commonly argued that marriage is no longer principally about the procreation and the rearing of children but that it centers instead on the companionship of the couple and the building of a household.

Information about the training of professionals in private practice who treat children, youth, and families can usually be obtained by writing the national, state or local office of the appropriate professional association of the particular counseling discipline: pastoral counseling, social work, clinical psychology, psychiatry, marriage counseling.

Through his suffering he conquers sin and dispels our misery.12 In his mercy, Jesus frees us from sin and enables us to live in the freedom of God's children.13 But it is important to understand that the freedom of God's children is lived in harmony with the truth; it does not seek to subordinate truth to itself.14 This truth includes, obviously, the truth about marriage revealed in Christ.

So the next time you hear a religious leader talk about marriage, children or abortion.

It is far more interested in speaking about fossil fuels than the importance of traditional marriage and the procreation of children.

My own statements about the way in which the decline of marriage contributes to the difficulties facing the working class were singled out as suggesting that unmarried women with children were somehow responsible — blaming the victim.

It is about how you can continue (or start anew) to enhance the marriage relationship even when the children are grown and gone and you think you know all there is to know about your spouse.

In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.

You allow them to simply talk about the passages of life: divorce, children leaving home, alternative marriages, and the simple joy of finding a job.

Her images are of pregnancy, labor and delivery; she writes about mothering both the infant and her daughter from a previous marriage, about taking a sick child to the doctor.

We've become aware of how the workplace cuts into the parent - child relationship, but we haven't thought enough about what it does to marriage.

How about the more pragmatic factor that the law with regard to marriage is for the sole purpose of addressing the special circu - mstances of the family unit which includes raising of children.

Surely you know what, say, James Q. Wilson has written about how strong marriages help children succeed in life, and how good marriages are becoming less common among the poor.

Finally, how can I expect my children to believe what I say about God and marriage if I do not believe or submit to what the Church teaches about God and marriage?

Believers need to learn about the ways in which marriage advances the emotional, social, and economic welfare of children.

And it will remain, at bottom, a moral struggle: about the dignity and value of human beings, about the rights and responsibilities of women and men, about the relationship between marriage, sexuality, and the rearing of children.

2/3 of African American babies are born out of wedlock, African - American men are absent while children are slaughtering each other on the streets, and and some African - American Pastors are concerned about Gay Marriage?

Again, marriage may be thought the ideal but there will be a strong motivation to ensure that young people have all the necessary information about contraception because they may end up, fairly naturally, doing the «loving» bit first before they are ready to have children.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

But please, for the love, don't leave a child and a community that was depending on you in a bind so you can make a point about gay marriage.

Give their children clear moral direction, exercise control over sexual content in the media in the home, be honest and truthful about the consequences of extra-marital sexual activity, uphold marriage and emphasise the benefits of saving sexual activity for marriage.

Jesus answered evenly, speaking important truth about the earthbound nature of marriage which will give way to the greater life promised to the children of» the resurrection (that beautiful phrase, lost on those with no ears to hear).

For those of us with convictions about waiting for the ideal situation of child - rearing in the context of a marriage, the options of passing our noses or tempers on to the next generation or participating in the beauty of adoption are, at least for now, off the table.

When children do not share the values and attitudes of parents about sexuality, marriage, or family, parents feel they have failed.

We've lived for the last 3 - 4000 years with everything being about the straights, their children, their marriage ceremonies, there problems living the married life in the suburbs, and on and on ad nauseum.

And if it is objected that marriage is about children, well lots of «straight» marriages do not result in progeny, for various reasons, and those marriages are not invalid, are they?

Hey black pastors how about you focus on black on black violence, or blacks low graduation rates and low education, or the drug epidemic, or the fact that black men abandon their children at a higher rate than other races... yeah ga. y marriage should be a big issue... what a fvcking joke...

Oh, he'll post lies about gay marriages producing gay children, but he can't cite a single credible, peer - reviewed study that shows any such thing.

While there surely is an economic dimension to marriage, marriage historically has primarily been about bringing children and parents together.

«Is the Minister aware that the recent guidelines of the House of Bishops state clearly that those who enter a same - sex marriage, together with children in their care, should be welcomed into the life of worshiping communities, and also that the Church of England is about to begin a two - year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to human sexuality and their implications for the life of the church and its disciplines?»

(d) Supplying the couple with whatever information they may desire related to achieving a strong, satisfying marriage relationship, including information about sex, finances, in - laws, children, planned parenthood, religion, and so forth.

Priests supposedly know more about s * e * x, marriage and raising children.

Jennifer Roback Morse (chapter four) shows why the Church is right about marriage: sociological data confirms that married people are happier, healthier and better off financially; the «outcomes» for their children are also «far better».

When I was explaining to my children recently that I was going to give a talk about marriage, my six year old said «Great \ We're going to a wedding!»

When lapsed parents approach us to have their child baptised, or lapsed couples for marriage, it is very rare that this is done merely for social reasons — that they just want a party (I think on these occasions a priest may well have to make a stand — but only after he has ascertained that they would not be open to some teaching about the Faith).

Parents may be worried about a child in another city whose marriage is going through difficult times.

Do you ever get random thoughts about life, God, theology, the Bible, marriage, child rearing, and monkeys?

Although there is ample evidence that married mothers and fathers play an irreplaceable role in the lives of their children, the positive message about marriage was not — and still is not — being told to those who need to hear it most.