Sentences with phrase «of egalitarian marriage»

All the studies of middle - class marriages show that companionship, the hallmark of the egalitarian marriage, is one of the most important ingredients for a successful marriage, especially for the wife, no matter what criterion or index is used to measure success.

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.

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 here?

Of course, even simply scientifically, we know that there are millions of egalitarian marriages that «work» very well.

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.

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».

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.

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.

A successful mainline approach to family ministry would be distinguished by its emphasis on egalitarian gender roles and — given the egalitarian trajectory of mainline churches — its eventual incorporation of gay marriage.

I think marriage, particularly of the exalted, egalitarian model now being pursued, is impossible.

I'm a thoroughly liberated beneficiary of the feminist movement, complete with a blossoming career, an egalitarian marriage, and a messy house.

The right to gossip about the famous and the powerful — be they a Hollywood star who sniffs cocaine or a big church pastor who cheated on his marriage — may be the stiff price our egalitarian society extracts from those who rise to the top of the heap.

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.

We intend to put together a post of resources for egalitarian or mutually - submissive marriages within the next week or two based on your input.

Sometimes I fear we have marriages that are functionally egalitarian, because they are within the structure of the larger society.

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 like.

According to Harvard Business School, which recently released the results of a survey that examined the career paths of 25,000 alumni, the women grads expected that their marriages would be egalitarian.

... 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.

Still, the authors say if we remove the white, middle - class blinders of marriage, we'd see aspects of black marriages that are «egalitarian, empowering and pioneering,» and that could potentially «undo gender.»

And while many do propose, there aren't a lot of compelling reasons if they're already cohabiting; since cohabitation is typically more gender egalitarian than marriage, men don't have to be the breadwinner — more cohabiting women have jobs than their partners — and he still has someone to clean the house and his clothes (yes, cohabiting women tend to do more of that than the guys).

I've talked about the problems of being a wife before (something Oprah seems to understand), and how instead of having the egalitarian marriage couples say they want, they still end up with a «his» and «hers» marriage (and for black couples, it's even more challenging).

«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.»

If you scored below an average of three, you tend to desire an egalitarian marriage, sharing both financial and domestic / child care responsibilities.

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.

Study after study has shown that egalitarian marriages — which often involve dual careers and always encompass shared housework and decision - making — unequivocally lead to higher rates of marital satisfaction for both sexes than do «traditional» marriages, based on hierarchy and a strict division of roles.

«We found that egalitarian couples have less frequent sex but report happy marriages and have levels of sexual satisfaction that are comparable to «old - school» husbands and wives,» she says.

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.

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.