Marriage
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World
How to Stop Child Marriage? Punish Husbands, Parents and Wedding Guests.
A new law in the West African country of Sierra Leone allows child brides to annul their marriages and be financially compensated.
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World
Thailand’s Legislature Approves Same-Sex Marriage Law
The bill, which needs the king’s endorsement to become law, underscores Thailand’s status as a relative haven in Asia for L.G.B.T.Q. people.
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Newyork
Men and Women, Together and Solo
More from our inbox: A Misguided Arms Competition With ChinaA.D.H.D. MedicationTrump’s Divisive RhetoricCredit...Ferdinando Scianna/Magnum PhotosTo the Editor: Re “Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, May 30): Women ...
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Newyork
Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement
I wrote a column recently lamenting the decline in marriage rates, noting that a record half of American adults are now unmarried. As a long-married romantic myself, steeped in statistics suggesting that marriage correlates with happiness, I found ...
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Newyork
Should I Lie So That My Cousin Can Have a Catholic Wedding?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to fib for a relative, especially when you don’t think the ends justify the means.
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Newyork
The Case for Saying ‘I Do’
With little notice, the United States may be crossing a historic milestone in family structure, one that may shape our health, wealth and happiness. Historically, most American adults were married — more than two-thirds as recently as 1970. But the ...
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News
I Want the House, Not My Spouse
Dividing the marital home in divorce can be a financially and emotionally fraught experience.
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Newyork
A More Conservative Case for How to Get More Americans to Marry
As of 2021, around 25 percent of 40-year-old Americans are not married — the highest percentage ever recorded. While divorce rates have plummeted from their early 1980s high, fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place. Why? Yes, around two ...
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Books
A Clever, Joyless Look at the ‘Commonplace Horror’ of Marriage
Lyz Lenz opens up about an unhappy union, and what she learned from it, in “This American Ex-Wife.”
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Newyork
Young Chinese Women Are Defying the Communist Party
The pressure to marry began when Amiee was in her early 20s. By 25, her Chinese parents were accusing her of causing them a public loss of face because she still had no plans to wed. Her father warned her that women are worth less to a man as they ...
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