A
monogamous marriage is when a person is married to only one person at a time, and they are committed to being faithful and loyal to their partner.
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This includes harm to women, to children, to society and to the institution
of monogamous marriage,» said Bauman.
Monogamous marriage as we now know it was thought to have become more prevalent once societies became more complex and agricultural and less nomadic.
To the recent generations who rejected Christianity, it may have seemed that the Church's traditional teaching on sex — that it should be kept
within monogamous marriage — spoiled the fun of modern sexual liberation.
Yet it must be said in fairness that there is probably as much paternalism in the liberal's all-wise insistence on «appropriate technology» in the face of a new nation's determination to have its own steel plants as in the conservative's all-wise insistence
on monogamous marriage in the face of tribal insistence on polygamy.
Only two minutes was given to the work of Peggy Vaughan, and BAN and the fact that monogamy is more than realistic, that many couples enjoy
lifelong monogamous marriages, that these in fact are some of the most fulfilling relationships, and some of the most successful and happy people in the world today.
For an example, an insolvable conflict would be if, in a
formerly monogamous marriage one of the partners decides that the partner wants to forgo monogamy and open up the marriage sexually, while the other partner does not want to do this.
Incidentally, many of the critics
of monogamous marriage, who favor alternate modes — «see how many marriages are on the rocks» — fail to note how many of the alternate routes fail.
These programs advocate for heterosexual,
monogamous marriages as the only appropriate settings for sexual interaction.
There's a lot to be said for faithfulness
in monogamous marriage (which I have not experienced d / t my husband's sexual addiction and flippancy).
Monogamous marriage — both as a fundamental structure for the relation between men and women and as the nucleus for the formation of the state community — was forged in the biblical faith.
Monogamous marriage is not the original context of this injunction against adultery.
Following that logic, anyone in
a monogamous marriage is a commie terrorist.
Without compromising its essential commitment to the ideal of faithful,
monogamous marriage, the church needs to proclaim that divorce is sometimes the alternative which gives hope for life, and that remaining in a marriage is sometimes the alternative which delivers only death.
You folks who still think saving sex for faithful and
monogamous marriage is a good idea — Miss Gebbie may leave you alone, but she's determined that your children will have «a better base of attitudes.»
But this «channeling» assumes radically different shapes in different cultures, ranging from urban to agrarian settings, ancient to modern families, polygamous to
monogamous marriages and so forth.
This is why the law until the 1960s resisted or delayed divorce, gave a privileged status to
monogamous marriage and upheld the need for public commitments of a mutually consenting man and woman as the ground for the formation of legal families.
Within the order of creation it is an essential foundation of
monogamous marriage.
The birth of Jacob and Esau to Rebekah shows how inheritance is resolved when
a monogamous marriage with a female from Terah's line produces more than one candidate as heir.
But we can at least analyze the kinds of love that are needed by every child, and we can see the ways that the culture has organized to meet those needs, needs which, when driven deeply enough, necessitate the wisdom and the sanctity of
a monogamous marriage and a faithful living together as far as possible so that the full work of parenting can be done.
... Acceptance of polyamory or plural marriage would have to include women having the freedom to marry or be with more than one, and it is likely that just as
monogamous marriage has evolved to be more egalitarian so would plural marriage when it is out of the shadows and no longer hidden.
Monogamous marriage is unromantic.
Just as the narrative of
a monogamous marriage changes from culture to culture, so does the narrative of polygamous marriage.
There's no denying that polygamous marriage can lead to tremendous amounts of abuse as an institution, but so can
monogamous marriage — the problem doesn't lie with the structure of marriage itself, but in the sexism of the community.
Just as no two
monogamous marriages are the same, no two open marriages work exactly the same way.
The app began as a group of French women decided they wanted to escape
their monogamous marriages for a while.
A monogamous marriage has a 50/50 chance of making it, you may realize that cheating happens in order to preserve marriage.
This includes harm to women, to children, to society and to the institution of
monogamous marriage.