Marriage is generally understood to be a more or less formal, conventional intimate couple relationship. Typically, marriage is celebrated as the exclusive and permanent union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Marriage is often presented as...

The discussion of marriage is extensive and varied, including both general statements and detailed regulations. Considered together, the verses exhibit an unresolved tension between mutuality and hierarchy. Marriage is for purposes of love and...

The institution of marriage, which has been defined as ‘the union of man and woman such that the children born from the woman are recognised as legitimate by the parents’ (Notes and Queries on Anthropology 1951:) has constituted a central...

"A person separated from the family will be eaten by wolves." This Central Asian proverb reveals much about the pervasive belief system in this region regarding the importance of families and the need for members to remain interconnected....

Affinity • Attachment • Bonding • Casual • Cohabitation • Compersion • Concubinage • Courtship • Divorce • Dower, dowry and bride price • Friendship • Family • Husband • Infatuation • Intimacy • Jealousy • Limerence •...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-22-2007 Marriage it is not -- Same-sex couples are not flocking to civil unions Date: 03-22-2007, Thursday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions ON Feb. 19, New Jersey's civil union law went into effect. Gay advocates expected...

Marriage, work at odds in welfare reform studies By NINA BERNSTEIN New York Times Monday, June 3, 2002 For years, work and marriage have been seen as twin pillars of welfare reform, but just as President Bush is seeking welfare legislation...

A State Supreme Court Justice ruled today that the City Clerk is obliged to marry same-sex couples. This will no doubt be in the courts for a while. In the meantime, we wonder whether this will force Mike to take a clearer position on gay...

Republican Mike Huckabee said Friday that marriage shouldn't be treated as an experiment in response to questions about whether Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter should have the right to wed.The former Arkansas governor, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, said heterosexual marriages face...

Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University The most outstanding feature of Shakespearean comedy is its pervading obsession with marriage. In many instances single or multiple marriages are used to provide comic closure, as in As You Like It and Love's Labour's Lost, in which four couples marry or are expected to marry, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, in each of which three couples marry, and Much Ado About Nothing and Two Gentlemen of Verona, in each of which two couples mar...

In the following essay, Ranald surveys the use of English matrimonial law as a thematic and plotting device in Shakespearean drama.

In the following essay, Gossett examines the tensions between romantic love and political expediency in Shakespeare's portrayal of arranged marriages in such plays as Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V, and The Tempest.

Examines the current state of marriage in America and discusses the high divorce rate. Argues that marriages crumble, because men and women have pre-assigned roles, no communication skills and myths they believe in.

A personal viewpoint of Marriage in a Roman Catholic Church

Compares two passages detailing marriage proposals from the works of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Explores why because of the different arguments, assumptions and attitudes shown by the suitors, the probable effect of the proposals on the woman being addressed will differ greatly.