Sentences with phrase «in heterosexual couple»

Some couples only come in when they have got to a crisis point where one of them is severely depressed (most often the depression in the heterosexual couple is diagnosed in the woman who may be carrying the symptom more obviously) or they need to make decisions about whether to medicate or not.

These results highlight the importance of father - child relationships in heterosexual couple families.

Earlier observational studies had shown a similar impact of ARVs reducing sexual transmission in heterosexual couples, but this was the first to demonstrate the prevention power of the drugs in a randomized, controlled clinical trial.

Men who have sex with men now account for 21 % of new infections in Thailand, and cases are also rising in heterosexual couples in rural villages in Uganda (Science, 25 August, p. 1030).

In heterosexual couples in which men are entering outpatient treatment for alcoholism or other drug abuse, behavioural couples therapy was more effective than individual based therapy for improving the psychosocial functioning of their children.

«When we plot the amount of negative affect over a 15 - minute conflict discussion, in heterosexual couples, it goes up over time,» says John Gottman.

Additionally, Gottman found that in heterosexual couples, it is easier for one partner to hurt another with a negative comment than it is to make that partner feel good with a positive comment.

Classic research on jealousy in heterosexual couples tells us that women are more concerned about men's emotional infidelity, because if a man is emotionally attached to a rival woman, this undermines the closeness in the original relationship.

According to the ScienceOfRelationships.com survey (learn more about this survey here), it turns out that most people think both members of the couple (in heterosexual couples) should plan the Valentine's Day festivities (70 %).

Sexual kindred spirits actual and overperceived similarity, complementarity, and partner accuracy in heterosexual couples.

Dr. Norm O'Rourke (of Simon Fraser University) discusses personality and marriage in heterosexual couples.

In a study, examining marital success rates of high - functioning men with autism in heterosexual couples, perceived social support was a significant predictor of relationship success (Renty & Roeyers, 2007).

The fact that they communicate so differently makes things harder in heterosexual couples.

But John, the gay couples and the lesbian couples that you're talking about — they're simply as good as the very best couples in your heterosexual couples?

Assessing the physical violence component of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales when used in heterosexual couples: An item response theory analysis.

Not exact matches

Apple's and Facebook's reproductive benefits policies could also appeal to gay and lesbian couples who want to use a surrogate or a sperm donor to have a baby, or heterosexual couples who incur in vitro fertilization costs not covered by insurance.

On half the trials, an image of a gay male couple subsequently appeared on the side of the screen toward which the participants were moving the manikin; on the other trials, a heterosexual couple appeared in this position.

In my view, certainly, when one person involved in a couple is male (particularly cis - gendered, heterosexual, white, etc.), it makes sense to me that he would need to give up the privilege that comes from having that body in US societIn my view, certainly, when one person involved in a couple is male (particularly cis - gendered, heterosexual, white, etc.), it makes sense to me that he would need to give up the privilege that comes from having that body in US societin a couple is male (particularly cis - gendered, heterosexual, white, etc.), it makes sense to me that he would need to give up the privilege that comes from having that body in US societin US society.

In fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquIn fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquin marriage as an institution.»

The «solidity and space» of gay relationships «are qualities sometimes lacking in more rote, heterosexual couplings.»

Let me put this another way, in a way that doesn't exclude me from the discussion; do you consider it wrong for heterosexual couples to have anal sex?

Gay and lesbian couples should be supported in their role as parents, whether their children come from previous heterosexual relationships, adoption or artificial insemination.

Leviticus 18:21, 22, and 23 are therefore primarily a series of three commands against Molek Worship: a heterosexual couple giving their child over to an altar of fire; the heterosexual man going to one room in the shrine, and mounting a male shrine prostitute; the heterosexual woman going to the shrine's stable, and presenting herself to an animal in a sexual manner.

The denomination has developed a blessing rite that mirrors current wedding ceremonies for heterosexual couples and allows each bishop to decide to allow same - sex marriages in their churches or not.

Assertions that heterosexual couples are inherently better parents than same sex couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children of heterosexual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

The question is — why are Ruth's words to Naomi used in wedding ceremonies for all kinds of couples, including heterosexual?

The role of raising children is entrusted in principle to married heterosexual couples because after much experimentation — several thousand years, more or less — we have found nothing else that works as well.

I believe that a healthy, sexually active, mutually supportive, heterosexual couple, deeply in love, completely faithful to one another, generating their own children, have fuller satisfaction more easily achieved than do others.

Hrothgar embracing Beowulf, Johnson embracing Boswell (a pretty flagrantly heterosexual couple) and all those hairy old toughs of centurions in Tacitus, clinging to one another and begging for last kisses when the legion was broken up... all pansies?

For my friends and acquaintances that are GLBT, the ability to have a legal standing on par with heterosexual couples carries weight in every area of their lives.

Do you realize that heterosexual couples engage in many of the same acts as gay couples do?

Does the heterosexual couple uniting in marriage today lift up the union as characterized by love, fidelity, intimacy and forgiveness.

I had to explain to them that anal sex was not a purely homosexual t hing but something many heterosexual couples did, that many homosexuals don't even engage in anal sex and most gay women didn't, that anal sex wasn't necessarily dirty, that many Christians don't consider anal sex to be a sin.

If many heterosexual couples are choosing civil unions (the French PACS — see the below chart), this must be because they find this form of union in their interest, in particular the economic and legal parameters that define the material interests of the parties (housing, finances, social insurance, etc.).

Christians have been urged to be «gracious» to heterosexual couples who want to be in a civil partnership, instead of a marriage.

There had been 32 ballot measures in the past to try to get same - sex couples the rights that every heterosexual couple takes for granted.

Heterosexual marriage, especially among white, educated and well - off couples, is still a gendered social reality and a gendered institution, or so argue sociologists Karyn Loscocco and Susan Walzer in Gender and the Culture of Heterosexual Marriage in the United States.

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

We were in a room full of single individuals, same - sex couples and heterosexual couples.

I had done made up my mind we were going to issue the licenses and I thought that was it,» said Judge Leon Archer, a probate judge in a rural county that has stopped issuing the same - sex licenses but is still issuing licenses to heterosexual couples.

Since 2005, we have worked with single parents, heterosexual and gay couples in over 15 countries and helped them to bring over 1,000 babies into the world.

We were also included in the Transition to Adoptive Parenthood Project, a longitudinal study focused on the transition to adoptive parenthood among same sex couples and heterosexual couples.

Edwin Wall, the couple's attorney, says, «There is no basis the state could assert that there is any legitimate reason in this case to distinguish between the married male couple and either married female couples or heterosexual couples.»

I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems than those who are raised by both biological parents in a heterosexual household.»

At a time when large numbers of heterosexuals are deserting marriage and cohabitating instead, shouldn't Conservatives see it as a good thing that many same - sex couples still believe in marriage and want to be part of it?

«I don't understand why some people feel threatened that allowing me to have that in any way diminishes what a heterosexual couple has.»

It was already clear the government's proposals to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry on the same legal basis as heterosexual couples would prove deeply divisive, across all parties in Westminster.

For example, in 2009 Leadsom criticised the adoption of two children by «a gay couple, who have been selected ahead of several heterosexual couples».