Sentences with phrase «divorce than marriages»

Relationship researcher John Gottman has found that marriages in which the husband accepts influence from his wife are far less likely to end in divorce than marriages where he is closed to her suggestions.

Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children from intact families.

[and] less likely to end in separation or divorce than marriages than began in an off - line venue.»

UK Dating Statistics Reveals Positive Results for the Dating Industry You would be surprised to know that the present society is witnessing more numbers of divorces than marriages.

Not exact matches

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

To accept gay marriage as a genuine expression of marriage — and to treat it as such in the parish office, even if we could then keep it out of the parish church — would be vastly more destructive than accepting divorce (which has been bad).

Strictly speaking, divorce is a right bestowed on the husband in view of his ability to shoulder the marriage obligations and because of his aptitude for better self - restraint than the wife can display.

Legislation, rather than facilitating divorce, can support marriage.

So the «institutional church» is no more the necessary cause of what the naked pastor describes than marriage is the cause of divorce.

We must admit to the hypocrisy of condemning divorce while at the same time condoning as «marriage» a relationship that is little more than a cynical armistice, a mutual state of boredom, an arrangement of legalized prostitution, or an excuse for the continued subjugation of women.

What I do know is that Rick is correct in that had people simply honored their marriage committments to begin with and put the supposed love of their life first rather than adopt the Hollywood lifestyle of divorce families woud be stronger and kids healthier.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Radical women and flamboyant homosexuals are easy (and ancient) targets, but neither undermines heterosexual marriage more than an array of other factors, such as financial instability, emotional dysfunction, unfair distribution of domestic labor, widespread divorce, interreligious differences and intercultural conflict.

Christians don't hate you any more than they hate someone who sleeps with others outside marriage, gets a divorce, drinks to excess, or smokes and harms their body.

With all the good will in the world, blended families often do not function smoothly — which is one of the main reasons why second marriages end in divorce more frequently than first marriages.

I'm for g.ay marriage, because I don't see any harm coming from it, and I think some people are better off divorcing than living miserable lives together, but I'm not for anything else on your list (adultery, lying, cheating, stealing).

As far as attending the marriage ceremony of gay people i have two points of view the first is that that is there choice to live how they want to but to me that is clearly not Gods best and sin is sin and needs to be repented of but that is my standard not theres.As far as divorced people remarrying why shouldnt they if they have repented of there past God forgives them not condemns them.As he said to the women caught in adultery do they condemn you and she answers no and he says and neither do i.Go and sin no more.This was not just for the women causght in adultery this lesson was for every one of us he was addressing our sin publically for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God that being his son Jesus Christ he is telling us that we must make the same decision to go and sin no more to repent in our hearts and the only way to do that is to give our hearts and lives totally to Jesus Christ other wise we are no better than the hypocrites in JESUS day.brentnz

The Church at this time needs our leadership to address the crisis of marriage for heterosexuals — between divorce and extramarital sexual activity — more than it needs a few ministers to take a stand against gay marriage.

This smacks to many of a deep - seated hatred of homosexuals, rather than of a recommitment to biblical principles of marriage, especially in light of the small number of homosexuals who seek to be married in the Church compared with the large numbers of heterosexual Christians who have actively sought divorce.

Gay marriage will affect a small percentage of people - far smaller than divorce.

The Bible is much clearer about divorce than it is gay marriage.

Furthermore, I think that most people would agree that with 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce in this country, divorce is a much greater threat to the «sanctity» of marriage than gay marriage.

At the recent Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission's national conference on «The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage,» Albert Mohler correctly asserted that the divorce revolution has done more harm to marriage than same - sex marriage will Marriage,» Albert Mohler correctly asserted that the divorce revolution has done more harm to marriage than same - sex marriage will marriage than same - sex marriage will marriage will ever do.

Some have «open marriages,» while others truly have no better option, given their circumstances, than to divorce.

Less than thirty years ago, Presbyterian polity instructed pastors not to perform a marriage ceremony if the man or woman had ever been divorced.

But when we divorce physical pleasure from emotional connection, such as when we selfishly strive for orgasm through pornography, masturbation or illicit sexual encounters rather than cultivating sexual ecstasy with our marriage partner, sexual ecstasy is only «half - baked.»

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

As the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle once pointed out, that possibility is more likely than it sounds: With the advent of no - fault divorce and the extension of welfare benefits to unmarried mothers, the late twentieth century demonstrated that marriage is both more important and more fragile than reformers had thought.

If biblical model of marriage is polygamy then I support it - that system kept women in families instead of loitering on the streets unprotected (there are more women than men and divorce has created further demographic issue of single women).

But in a society of divorce, broken families, and single parents, conservative proposals such as repealing the marriage tax are little more than «symbolic hand waving» and will have slight effect in the real world.

Despite the increasing divergence between secular and biblical understandings of marriage, signs of this original plan of God are still evident in the world around us, e.g. the fact that living together before getting married increases rather than decreases the risk of divorce and the fact that marriage is the best place for bringing up children.

more than HALf of marriages ending in divorce!

Thus, couples in covenant marriages have a 50 percent lower divorce rate than couples who don't.

With more singles than ever, a 50 percent or so divorce rate, a tenfold increase in cohabitation and a growing number of people questioning whether marriage is still relevant, our nosy relatives and family friends can't help themselves from asking why we're not getting with the program.

Instead of wringing our hands about so - called gray divorces and seeing those marriages as failures, perhaps we should consider marriage as more «till the kids part» than «till death do us part.»

When Andrew Dice Clay announced that he was divorcing his third wife, Valerie Silverstein, recently, I had to do a double - take on his reason: «The word «marriage» was putting a pressure on our relationship and since we filed, we've been more in love and have had more respect for each other than ever before.»

Because the best reason to divorce is not because you believe there's better sex or a better someone «out there» for you; it's because you'd rather face being alone than stay in your marriage.

It's hard for some to navigate what authors David and Claudia Arp call «the second half of marriage» — the years that come post-kids — as evidenced by the divorce rate among baby boomers, which has jumped by more than 50 percent over the past 20 years.

And of course you would say leaving a marriage after she cheated rather than staying back to make amends would be the decent thing to do; women are usually (though not always) the financial benefactors of divorce.

A few months after that conversation, Mexico City's liberal Democratic Revolution Party proposed legislation that would allow renewable marriage contracts of no fewer than two years, in part to stem the high divorce rate.

Nothing will make you think more about what marriage is about than a divorce.

We know from studies that men benefit from marriage — married men tend to be healthier and better off financially than unmarried men — but suffer the most in a divorce.

In other words, if a wife worked hard enough, she could save her marriage, if not from unhappiness, than at least from divorce.

Sadly, we see that over 50 % of marriages now end in divorce, and no matter how many tips you find online to spice up your marriage, address the communication problems you may have, or just how many more hours you are working than the average person 20 years ago, is there a way to fight back against this two - year itch?

Act like you're divorced» a few years ago, I distinguished the difference between acting single within a relationship — single people have a lot of expectations, typically unrealistic, about marriage, and that does more damage than good — versus acting divorced, with all the benefits of expectation - busting hindsight.

So, rather than make divorce harder (or marriage harder), why not rethink parenting?

And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.

The message is always the same; if a wife just worked hard enough she could save her marriage, if not from unhappiness than at least from divorce.

But men who have kids outside of marriage, often African - American men and those without college degrees, are even less likely to be involved in their lives than divorced dads, they note.

In my experience, it seems true that parents want to share more time with their children after divorce than during the marriage — either because they took their family for granted during the marriage or they just hated being home.