«Today's couples are likely to have
less gendered relationships, and the research tells us that these are more satisfying,» Fitzpatrick said.
Not exact matches
What is
less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on
gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
On the basis of this research, I suspect that beyond the usual romcoms, melodramas involving a wide range of family
relationships from the admirable to the debased, and documentaries testifying to courage and grief, two themes will steal the headlines: gun violence in the U.S., and to a slightly
lesser extent,
gender fluidity worldwide.
When children understand what a healthy
relationship is, they are
less likely to accept dating violence and are more likely to have positive attitudes toward
gender equality, according to a recent study.
Because of this difference, avoidant men and anxious women frequently pair up in
relationships; it's far
less common to find two avoidant people or two preoccupied people together.1 Avoidant men and anxious women are demonstrating stereotypical
gender roles, with men acting more emotionally distant and women acting more clingy and dependent.
Gender differences are also signaled by Baber and Tucker (2006): men indicate
less equality support in a
relationship than women.
Summary Table 7 below illustrates that
Gender and
relationship length were the key predictors for this Love style; males scored more highly (M = 13.06) than females (M = 9.72) and the longer the
relationship the
less this «love as friendship» attitude was endorsed.
Relatedly, these results may not generalize to
relationships in societies that are more traditional (and
less egalitarian) with respect to
gender roles than the United States.
Yet, although male adolescents may be generally somewhat more predisposed to engage in alcohol misuse than female adolescents, unlike depressive symptoms,
gender differences on peer
relationships may be
less relevant when it comes to socialization of drinking behaviors.