If I'm honest, I've seen this sort of humility and service reflected
in egalitarian marriages, and I've seen this sort of humility and service reflected in more complementarian / patriarchal marriages.
Spurred by findings of a paper by Sabrino Kornrich, Julie Brines and Katarina Leupp published in the American Sociological Review, the article argues that, «too much similarity
in egalitarian marriages leads to boredom and decreased sexual frequency».
«Young people today strongly believe
in egalitarian marriage — even if they don't always follow it in practice,» she said.
Not exact matches
Christine Schwartz, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin
in Madison who studies the relationship between
marriage and inequality, said one factor seems to be a growing preference toward
egalitarian marriage.
Marriage and the family are valuable social institutions, especially important for children, but they need to be newly understood
in nonpatriarchal and
egalitarian ways.
And I know I've already shared this one... like, twice already... but Sarah Bessey's «
In Which Love Looks Like Real Marriage» is one of the most beautiful depictions of egalitarian marriage I've ever encountered: «Well, who is in charge her
In Which Love Looks Like Real
Marriage» is one of the most beautiful depictions of egalitarian marriage I've ever encountered: «Well, who is in char
Marriage» is one of the most beautiful depictions of
egalitarian marriage I've ever encountered: «Well, who is in char
marriage I've ever encountered: «Well, who is
in charge her
in charge here?
And contrary to everything you've heard from the complementarian camp,
in nearly 13 years of
egalitarian marriage we've never reached that big, bad hypothetical impasse
in which we simply can not agree and need someone to play a gender - based trump card to prevent paralysis.
Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission
in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best
in our
marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or
egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.
From Kim: As an
egalitarian, how do you define the characteristics of woman - femininity and men - masculinity and what does this look like
in a Christian
marriage.
At the same time many couples will succeed
in discovering the gains
in more
egalitarian and companionable
marriages.
It started a couple of days ago when I popped off on my Facebook page about how much I wished there was a really great
marriage conference for people whose
marriages are more like our own — theologians call it «
egalitarian» meaning that we believe
in a
marriage of equals, that we are co-leaders and our
marriage is more about lifting each other up and following Jesus together as one.
Even though Dan and I were both raised
in a complementarian culture, our
marriage was «functionally
egalitarian» long before we began reevaluating our interpretation of those passages of Scripture so often used to support hierarchal - based gender roles.
In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act lik
In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on
marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase
in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act lik
in stay - at home dads and
egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.
«These trends are consistent with a shift away from a breadwinner - homemaker model of
marriage toward a more
egalitarian model of
marriage in which women's status is less threatening to men's gender identity.»
The modern shift to
egalitarian gender roles
in marriages has become more pervasive for a reason.
The notion of love as passion, so much at the core of Surrealism, has evolved with the sociological changes of intimacy toward a tension between romantic love versus
marriage and the attempt to build a new form of relationship based on a more
egalitarian exchange, that we could call «amour convergent» or «pure relationship», thanks to the battles of feminism and new intimacy, as discussed
in «The Transformation of intimacy» from sociologist Anthony Giddens.
Yet a recent study, cited
in the controversial New York Times article, «The
Egalitarian -
Marriage Conundrum,» found that the more men did these traditionally feminine tasks, the less sexually attractive their wives found them
Studies of marital relationships are fairly consistent
in indicating that husbands have greater power than their wives, though the research also indicates a change toward
egalitarian marriage.
But these studies relied on data from the 1980s and early 1990s, and thus represented
marriages formed before the recent surge
in dual - earner families and social approval of
egalitarian gender roles.
Finally, I show that the recent changes
in age at
marriage and divorce are associated with more
egalitarian marriages and decreased marital conflict.
At Peace Talks, we recognize the reality that we are living
in a world where not everyone has the same
egalitarian view of same - sex
marriage.
Egalitarian marriages are,
in many ways, more difficult for both partners than traditional
marriages, Carlson said.