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What Is Marriage
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Author : Sherif Girgis
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2012-02-28
What Is Marriage written by Sherif Girgis and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with Philosophy categories.
Until just yesterday, no society--monogamous or polygamous—had defined marriage as anything other than a male-female union. With clear and cogent arguments, What Is Marriage? explains the rational basis of this historic consensus. It defeats the arguments for recognizing same-sex partnerships as marriages and shows how doing so would harm the common good. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book’s core argument quickly became the year’s most widely read essay of more than 300,000 scholarly articles posted on the Social Sciences Research Network. Now expanded to address a flurry of prominent responses, What Is Marriage? stands poised to meet its moment as few books of this generation have. If the marriage debate in America is decided in the next few years, it will be either with this book’s help, or despite its powerful arguments. Rhodes Scholar Sherif Girgis, Princeton University professor Robert P. George, and Ryan T. Anderson, editor of the online journal Public Discourse, provide a devastating critique of the claim that equality requires redefining marriage. They point out that any assessment of what “marriage equality” demands depends on first determining what marriage is—what sort of relationships must be treated as essentially the same. They defend the principle that marriage, as a comprehensive union ordered to family life, requires a man and a woman. And they argue for the great social benefits of enshrining this principle in law. Most compellingly, they show that those who embrace same-sex civil marriage leave themselves no firm ground—none—for not recognizing as marriages every relationship type describable in polite English, including multiple-partner (“polyamorous”) sexual unions. Finally, What Is Marriage? decisively answer common objections: that the historic view is rooted in bigotry (like laws forbidding interracial marriage); that it is callous to people’s needs; that it can’t show the harm of recognizing same-sex couplings, or the point of recognizing infertile ones; and that it treats a mere “social construct” as if it were natural, or an unreasoned religious view as if it were rational.
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
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Author : Les Parrott
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2006
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts written by Les Parrott and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Family & Relationships categories.
Meeting the needs of a generation overwhelmed by divorce odds, relationship experts Les and Leslie Parrott share seven key questions to help couples identify and overcome stumbling blocks to building a healthy, lifelong marriage.
Marriage
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Author : Robert O. Blood
language : en
Publisher: New York, Free P. of Glencoe
Release Date : 1962
Marriage written by Robert O. Blood and has been published by New York, Free P. of Glencoe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Marriage categories.
The Marriage Test
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Author : Jill Andres
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-02-02
The Marriage Test written by Jill Andres and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga built The Marriage Test to confirm their compatibility before saying “I do.” Forty revealing challenges simulate the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields. Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell...
The Marriage Problem
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Author : James Q. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2002-03-01
The Marriage Problem written by James Q. Wilson and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-01 with Political Science categories.
Drawn from thorough research, a thought-provoking study of marriage and the devastating consequences of its collapse on society reveals the two underlying causes of this rapid dissolution--the rise of individualism and the repercussions of slavery, stressing the importance and necessity of a strong marital structure in the world.
Marriage A Mystery Revealed
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Author : Mark D. Goodson
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2004-05
Marriage A Mystery Revealed written by Mark D. Goodson and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05 with Religion categories.
Magnificent Marriage
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Author : Gordon MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Release Date : 1976
Magnificent Marriage written by Gordon MacDonald and has been published by Tyndale House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Family & Relationships categories.
A History Of Marriage Systems
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Author : Gladys Robina Quale
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-05-06
A History Of Marriage Systems written by Gladys Robina Quale and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-05-06 with Family & Relationships categories.
Readers seeking a historical and cross-cultural treatment of marriage and the family will not be disappointed by this book. A readable and comprehensive account of marriage, rich in colorful social history, Quale's work excels in the comparison of lines of development among the foremost cultures of the world. Particularly impressive in this regard is her treatment of the Eastern civilizations and how these differed from what demographic historians have come to call the `West European pattern' of marriage....Although written as a history, this book should be of interest to students of the family in the social sciences. While it is not a path-breaking work in the sense of providing significant novel conceptual or theoretical insights, it skillfully incorporates theoretical and empirical contributions from a multitude of disciplines. It devotes considerable attention to contemporary trends and consistently relates the institution of the family to the overall socioeconomic, political, and demographic contingencies within society....Quale has written an important book that contains a wealth of useful informaton and deserves serious consideration for use in graduate and undergraduate instruction. Journal of Marriage and the Family This is the first general worldwide history of marriage systems. Though it is comprehensive, it also uses contemporary American trends to illustrate broader tendencies in significant and sometimes dramatic ways. After going back to the earliest generations of human life to seek the roots of why and how human beings came to marry, it explores the various points in family life at which marriages are made, dissolved, and remade. It treats marriage systems as a basis for understanding how not only families, but whole societies operate. The functioning of a marriage system is perceived to be fully related to the overall economic and political situation within which families and individuals must make their way. The overall situation is looked at in a historical context, reflecting a condition of constant change. Quale traces the gradual modifications in patterns through the rise of agriculture and herding into commercial-urban societies and on to contemporary industrial-commercial life, comparing lines of development in the major regions of the world.
Plural Marriage For Our Times
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Author : Philip L. Kilbride
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-08-17
Plural Marriage For Our Times written by Philip L. Kilbride and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-17 with Family & Relationships categories.
This thoroughly revised second edition offers a child-centered, international perspective as it urges America to de-stigmatize alternate family forms. In this book's first edition, Philip L. Kilbride showed polygamy as the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world and explained how plural marriage is surfacing in western countries to address economic and spiritual crises. In Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option? Second Edition, Kilbride and his coauthor, Douglas R. Page, update and enhance this thesis in light of contemporary circumstances, new studies, and current legal debates. This new edition examines plural marriage's benefits for children. It extends the discussion of polygamy and religion, especially the Muslim perspective on marriage and family; considers the illegal polygamy of immigrants; and looks at multiple marriage in African American communities, where "crisis polygamy" is a growing phenomenon. The authors suggest Americans consider plural marriage as a viable practice that can help reduce the divorce rate, better protect women and children, and serve as an alternative to the "fractured family" so prevalent in America today.
Marriage Proposals
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Author : Anita Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008-12
Marriage Proposals written by Anita Bernstein and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12 with Law categories.
The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage. No joint income tax return; no immigration privileges like the “fiancée visa” or the right to bring in a husband or wife; no special statuses for prison visits or hospital decisions; no prerogative to remain silent in court by claiming “confidential marital communications”; no pension entitlements; no marital benefits and detriments regarding criminal or civil liability. The anthology makes a unique contribution amid the two marriage furors of the day: same-sex marriage and the Bush Administration's “marriage movement” (that marrying is good and more marriages would be better for society). Abolishing the legal category of marriage is the only policy suggestion in current American discourse that speaks to both causes. Activists on both sides of the same-sex marriage fight, along with marriage movement partisans, all seek improvement through law reform. Marriage Proposals gives them a viable reform—abolition of marriage as a legal status—for fighting battles in the courtroom and the streets. Contributors include Anita Bernstein, Peggy Cooper Davis, Martha Albertson Fineman, Linda C. McClain, Marshall Miller, Lawrence Rosen, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Dorian Solot.