Sentences with phrase «very idea of marriage»

That exhortation is worth recalling, now that the very idea of marriage is being contested on four state ballots, and in the national election, on Nov. 6:

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I abominate the very idea of incest and contemplate with horror a society that might sanction it by granting such unions the status of marriage.

My GUESS is that the idea of gay marriage would have been very offensive to the Reverend Doctor King, Baptist minister that he was.

But it's also, of course, very easy for teenagers of any sexual orientation to have unrealistic romantic ideas in which marriage solves the problem of the self.»

Scott Yenor lays out the problem nicely in the introduction to his very important and carefully argued Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought.

But one lesson from recent debates over same - sex marriage and the Planned Parenthood videos is that different groups have very different ideas of what the common good is.

St Augustine insists that this virtue is a gift of God; an idea that he stresses elsewhere with special reference to marriage: «The very fact that conjugal chastity has such power shows that it is a great gift of God» (Contra Julianum, 3:43).

You know, so much of what we do in the United States is to assume that we're supposed to get so much joy and happiness and meaning from our marriages, and that's really a very problematic idea - this whole soul - mate marriage idea - that our spouses are supposed to be not only hot sex partners but our therapist, our confidant, our sport partners and we're way too dependent on our spouses for meaning.

70 % of Tinder users were «very open'to the idea of interracial dating or marriage, compared to 56 % of people who use other dating apps.

However, the overriding theme is still very much the importance of family — an idea punctuated by the addition of Ingrid's also - spy parents (played by, in an odd but inspired pairing, Ricardo Montalban and Holland Taylor), who still haven't come to terms with her marriage to Gregorio.

He's very excited about the idea of marriage and kids in the script — now that all the characters are older.»

I had an idea of what marriage would and should be and the reality of that has been very different.

While sexual surrogacy was popular and practiced in the 1970s and 1980s, the idea of psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, counselors, and mental health professionals referring clients to Surrogate Partner Therapy is highly controversial and very little examined in current times.

Recently, researchers applied this idea of gene BY environment interactions to the link between marriage and health.3 The researchers took advantage of a very large sample of twins, all of whom were married (not to each other, obviously) from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study.

If something happens to your marriage, chances are you'll be the caregiver for the children so it's very important to have a realistic idea of what the basic household expenses have been and might be monthly and yearly.

This can be viewed as a form of aggression from either side, but it is definitely a sign that marriage therapy may be a very good idea.

What if you approach your spouse and he or she is very against the whole idea of talking to an online marriage counselor?

As I noted at AEI Ideas, «you can not easily strip marriage of its constituent parts, such as more money and a supportive parenting environment,» and imagine that those parts will be as easily produced outside of the very institution that is ordered to their generation and cultivation.