Sentences with phrase «age of marriage for»

But «early» meant something quite different when the average age of marriage for women was barely over 20 — still too young to legally drink a toast at their own wedding reception.

It revealed that the average age of marriage for women is now 26.5 years old and 28.7 years old for men, up from 23 and 26 in 1990.

In a report published by the National Marriage Project, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy, and the Relate Institute, researchers found that the average age of marriage for both sexes is at an all - time high, with 27 being the average age for women and 29 for men.

It was frequently the case that celibacy was almost unknown and the average age of marriage for women was far lower than in western Europe, often close to the attainment of sexual maturity.

Not exact matches

But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem — from the outside at least — like one big party.

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

If your former spouse is caring for your child who is under age 16 or disabled who gets benefits on your record, they will not have to meet the length - of - marriage rule.

According to the Institute for American Values, the number of marriages per 1000 unmarried women age fifteen and older has shrunk from 76.5 in 1970 to 36 today.

No (minors have guardians to make those decision for them)-- legalizing polygamy - Yes (as long as age - of - consent is observed)-- legalizing the marriage of a man and women of any age, as long as the women consents.

No (minors have guardians to make those decision for them)-- legalizing the marriage of a man and women of any age, as long as the women consents.

Marrying mostly among themselves, and at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.

And some of them would send their daughters for marriage between that age to elder men just to be able to support the rest of the family with the marriage money... Maybe you being in America living fully covered from A to Z know nothing about how poorer countries live and think all are as happy as you are?!

Although uncertain of her actual age of marriage but I know for sure that she was at the age of bearing a child once she was with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Teresa Malecka, who had to convince Wojtyla (whom she and others called Wujek, «Uncle»), that she was ready for marriage at age twenty, is an accomplished musicologist and the former vice-dean of the Cracow Academy of Music.

Even late in the 20th Century, fundamentalist inst / itutions still opposed miscegenation «Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man.»

At age twenty - nine, with two graduate degrees but no wife, I am the perfect target for Frederica Mathewes - Green's disappointment with the rising age of marriage.

Inheritance in Islam is based on the blood relationship of parents, brothers and sisters, and children, and on the marriage relationship of husband and wife, without regard for sex or age in the right of inheritance.

I know that unfortunately, the universal acceptance of gay marriage and pro-abortion laws will come in our days with or without Obama, as we approach to the end of the age Jesus talks about in Matthew 25 (I wonder if President Obama has read that chapter too); but we don't have to settle right now for a Mormon Priest and President.

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

The forms of legal coercion such as laws against bigamy, age limits for consent to marriage, the husband's moral economic obligations to support the wife, and so on are the province of the community as a whole.

A 2011 Pew Report found that the median age of (first) marriages was 29 for men and 27 for women.

For example, no government can deny the right of its citizens to marry, but every state has certain marriage regulations: minimum age, one spouse at a time, opposite sex, blood test, a license.

Many types of groups exist, e.g., a depth Bible study group to stimulate the maturing of functional theologies; groups to aid preparation for normal crises such as retirement, middle age, marriage, childbirth (Caplan calls these «emotional innoculation groups»).

And how can that ideal marriage contract's list account for the pain and danger of Mrs. Jacobi, a late - middle - aged client who comes to Marianne's office for a divorce in order to take a step toward recovering her sense of living?

The erotic literature of the age which is so exclusively concerned with one person's enjoyment of another and the pseudo-psychoanalytical thinking which looks for the solution to the problem of marriage through simply freeing «inhibitions» both ignore the vital importance of the Thou which must be received in true presentness if human life, either public or personal, is to exist.

Here it can be said, however, that the key to successful aging begins now, in working to deepen the marriage and to find inner values for coping creatively with the years of maturity.

That is why there are ages of consent for marriage.

We all realise that it is not the aspect of traditional Catholic teaching on marriage which is going to inspire and attract in our secular age, but there is no mention of the «remedy for concupiscence» angle or much on Original Sin, which I would have thought merited more than a passing nod.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

Schlafly again turned to the grassroots, galvanizing family - oriented, religious women to flood state legislative halls and remind the lawmakers that the ERA threatened to mandate unisex bathrooms, same - sex marriage, no - holds - barred abortion, drafting women into the military, and eliminating alimony for cast - off middle - aged wives who had devoted themselves to their homes instead of building careers.

One excellent form of consciousness raising for both pre-wedding and post-wedding couples of all ages is to encourage them to write a marriage contract or covenant.

I'm proud that despite the age of divorce, we had an incredibly happy and successful marriage for all that time.

And just because we believe in a marriage of mutuality doesn't mean we also don't need a few tools in our toolbox for things like conflict resolution, finances, sex, romance, aging, navigating crisis or change, all of that same stuff because hello, we're all people with real stuff to deal with and marriage can be hard sometimes no matter what your theology is.

Included are the times of internal testing, when a crisis occurs in the marriage itself as the shifting tides of circumstance and the pressures of aging throw the relationship off balance for a while.

The goal is to allow the coexistence of the most contradictory interpretations: maternity, contraception or abortion; voluntary sterilisation or in - vitro fertilisation; sexual relations within or outside marriage, at any age, under any circumstance, as long as one abides by the triple precept of the new ethic: the partners» consent; their health security; and respect for the woman's right to choose.Reproductive health is the Trojan horse of the abortion lobby and of the global sexual revolution.

If it were then those couples with no intention of child bearing, those who can not have children for medical reasons, and any couple past the age of bearing children would be barred from marriage.

Again, since Jesus was unmarried and was executed while still a young man, we are provided with no divine exemplar for the good marriage, for the successful coping with the problems of middle age, or for the gracious acceptance of the closing phases of earthly life.

Perhaps this will mean something as radical as a sort of «Second Catechumenate» for the formation of Catholics in order to prepare them to live their marriages in fidelity to the way of Christ amidst the challenges of our age.

To the statement, For me marriage has been a good thing, the percentage responding yes declined from age twenty - two to thirty - five; but then it rose gradually until at age fifty - one it was back to the level of age twenty - one respondents!

Here he commended marriage at a reasonably early age, and deplored the common picture of young people living wildly, becoming disgusted with themselves and then turning to being a monk or a priest for which «not one in a hundred» was suited.

Jesus wasn't saying marriage in a new age didn't exist, but that angels had freedom of choice and that women would not be bound by the Jewish legal traditions concerning marriage arrangements, but they would be free to accept or reject someone for marriage, just like angels were.

As for people that are saying «Christians raise their children to hate the thought of sex and to wait till marriage,» not only is it for their children to hopefully make their parents religion their religion but also keep them from ending up with a kid at the age of 14.

The awareness of the need for marital enrichment and deepening can dawn on a couple at any age or stage of marriage.

Although men still skew much younger when looking for love online, most of us tend to marry someone close to our own age in first marriages — according to the Pew study, 80 percent of men and 78 percent of women marry someone within five years of their age.

The news broke last week that Donald Trump Jr.'s wife, Vanessa, filed for divorce after 12 years of marriage and five children, ages 3 to 10, together.

I was in a sexless marriage for 10 years, (age 20 - 30), and boy do I regret the mother fucking hell out of it.

Others often struggle with having to care for an aging estranged parent and perhaps aging stepparents with whom they may or may not have been close, says Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

It's what Susan Pease Gadoua, my co-author of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, was constantly asked until she — finally!!!! — wed at age 43.

For instance, a 2004 National Fatherhood Initiative poll of American adults aged 18 - 60 found that 52 % of college - educated Americans endorsed the norm that in the «absence of violence and extreme conflict, parents who have an unsatisfactory marriage should stay together until their children are grown.»

You are free to create the terms of your new marriage — who sleeps where, which financial responsibilities are shared and which aren't, setting boundaries for other romantic interests — based on each person's needs and the age of their children.