Sentences with phrase «role does marriage»

What role does marriage play in ancient Roman culture?

What role does marriage play within the cultures represented in the novel and how are the women treated as a result?

And what role does marriage play in God's plan of salvation?

How important a role did marriage counseling play in these formerly unhappily married spouses» accounts of getting happier?

Not exact matches

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

I read Mary Eberstadt's essay with great interest because, while my marriage doesn't suffer from (knock on wood, so to speak) a porn problem, it has been sorely tested by the more general problem she describes: the abandonment of traditional gender roles by the educated class and the ensuing confusions and strains when the baby arrives» that is, when the rubber hits the road.

I don't think gay marriage will play a big role in the election.

«Hey did you guys see that Rosie ODonnel has a problem again with her lover and she has kids good role model just the kind of person that is great advertising for gay marriage.

At least in so far as I think men and women do have complimentary roles to one another in marriage.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

The real peril for McLaren comes from Julie's claims that he and the other Emergent leaders in question did not, in fact, attempt to save her marriage, but instead took an active role in ending it in favor of a pairing they found more suitable for their friend and colleague.

Parent growth groups which also emphasize the crucial role of fathers and stress the enrichment of marriage (which ours did not) are, in the long run, more helpful to both children and parents.

I don't care whether the partners in a hetero marriage live according to stereotyped gender roles, either.

I think our marriage offers us the unique ability to have a marriage that really doesn't have to follow some of the «heterosexual» rules and expectations — especially when it comes to gender roles.

Before we get to the trickiest sexual questions, based upon what many people are already doing, our book deals with marriage in the context of friendship, men's and women's roles and responsibilities and how to deal with sin so that marriage gets better rather than bitter.

This idea that they don't mast - rbate or watch p0rn is a ridiculous double standard that obviously played and is playing a real role in how they have approached this issue in their marriage.

But the State clearly does have a role in defining what is and isn't a legally recognised marriage.»

I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

Then research by Philip and Carolyn Cowan indicated that if both partners wanted the pregnancy — and didn't slide back into traditional gender roles once the baby was born — the initial shock of new parenthood disappeared and their marriage would be back on a happy marital track.

It's a similar but slightly different reality than that of stay - at - home dads — the trail - blazing «feminist, father, and husband who doesn't care what the gender roles are,» is how Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, sees them.

Still, she's quitting her paid work to take on her new role — what The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels would call a safety mMarriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels would call a safety marriagemarriage.

As you probably know, many marriage don't make it past 10 years — not to sound cynical but perhaps these marriages won't either, and perhaps for reasons that will result from the role switch; no way to know.

In other words, children of continuously married parents do not outperform other children just because their parents show better parenting behavior, but it does play a large role in the marriage gap.

Thankfully, I did a lot of intensive work to understand the role I played in the demise of my second marriage, and I learned how to act differently although it's a work in progress.

But Long also insisted she has no role as a contender for a federal office in championing the repeal of any state law, although she did say she would have voted «no» on the marriage bill last summer had she been a state senator.

«If they don't want to marry, I have no power or role in forcing the marriage,» Cuomo shrugged.

If they don't want to marry, I have no power or role in forcing the marriage.

If they don't want to marry, I have no power or role in forcing a marriage.

«If they don't want to marry, I have no power or role in forcing the marriage,» he said during a stop in Batavia on Tuesday.

While NOM insists Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin's «yes» vote on gay marriage could cost him the race, HRC stresses that no matter who wins tonight (assuming it's not too close to immediately call, which is a distinct possibility, given the history of past NY House specials) marriage equality «did not play an influential, even modest, role in the outcome.»

«Marriage equality did not play an influential, even modest, role in the outcome of this special election,» said Brian Ellner, a senior strategist for the Human Rights Campaign, which seeks equality.

The state senator has been an advocate for those who do not have a voice in the halls of government, playing an important role in 2009 and last year during the battle for same - sex marriage.

«If they don't want to marry, I have no power or role in forcing the marriage,» he said during a stop in upstate Batavia last July.

Supporting marriage may or may not be the role of government, but the current policy of supporting anything but, does seem a little stupid.

The regulation of child production was done «through church and state, the norms surrounding sexual activity and sex roles, illegitimacy, cohabitation and marriage, family and kinship obligations and property law,» says MacInnes.

The researchers found that differences in married and unmarried women's income, employment status, number of children, attitudes about gender discrimination, and views on traditional gender roles do not explain the marriage gap in political preferences.

However, most parents and candidates waiting for marriage do not have a clear understanding of the role of matrimonial sites.

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Not only does the network cast Matt LeBlanc in the starring role, but Matt takes the lead in deviously twisting their beloved series into a terrible cliché, while testing the couple's marriage with diversions and temptations.

Connelly isn't offered as much to do, but her role is appropriately supportive, coming alive in the finale as Emma finally voices her opinion on the book and the longevity of her marriage.

Kristen Bell fares just as poorly as the repressed stay - at - home mom who struggles to find her voice in her marriage, trying to drum up laughs in a bra - shaming sequence that is almost identical to the one she was involved in just in the last year in her role in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle, The Boss — that it's Kunis's character, the most fashionable of the three moms (the one with perfect hair, make - up and 5 - inch designer heels) who wears doesn't know her bra isn't sexy only speaks to the film's laboring to force comedy without build - up.

Jim Carrey takes on a comparatively brief side role, still using his basic shtick of making statements with suspenseful, breathtaking pauses, Olivia Wilde does fine as the team's not - so - loyal assistant, but Steve Carell is at the top of his form in what is perhaps his most flamboyant role, one that offers stark contrast to his performance as a marriage counselor in David Frankel's «Hope Springs» and, of course, his dryly humorous role in TVs «The Office.»

While sequel plans fell apart in the 1970s (as did Vadim and Fonda's marriage), the director maintained interest in recasting the role until his death in 2000.

Dido and her cousin Elizabeth struggle with issues familiar to fans of Georgian - era - set fiction, particularly class, money, and the role love does or doesn't play in courtship and marriage.

What role does food play in his marriage and family life, and in his work relationships?

So even if one makes an argument that «society» has a role to play in granting or not granting social recognition of a relationship as a «marriage» (a proposition I actually don't agree with); the argument becomes more strained when you are essentially banning play - acting.

Many of us didn't have the best role models growing up for how to have a happy and successful marriage, either.

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.

On average, she reports, cohabitors begin living together at an earlier age than marrying couples, but «when couples are compared by the age at which they move in together and start taking on the roles associated with marriage, there is no difference in divorce rates between couples that lived together before marriage and those that didn't.»

Often, couples should attend individual therapy sessions as well as marriage counseling to fully understand what causes them to play the roles that they do in their union.