...Marriage Tina Calhoun Adult and Family Development BSHS 371 Joycelyn Bennett, MA – Instructor September 12, 2012 The author of this paper will prepare a written paper on marriage. She will describe some of the problems that affect a marriage, how those involved are affected, ways the problems can be prevented and approaches for resolving or improving the problem along with resources. Upon researching the subject of marriage the author found that the number one reason for marital problems is financial disagreement. Although, money may not appear to be directly related to problems in a marriage mast of the time it is. Negative behavior patterns such as one spouse lying or withholding financial information cause many marriages to fall apart. Research done over the last 20 years show that negative patterns or behavior can destroy a marriage. There are four negative behavior patterns the author will discuss. The negative behavior pattern is escalation. Escalation occurs when a couple’s conversation gets more and more hostile through continually upping the ante of negative back and forth responses. A small disagreement soon blows into a major fight as the level of anger and frustration increases with each negative comment. Tailed marriages and marriages with problems find arguments that escalate to the point that damaging things are said find their oneness and intimacy quickly shattered by a few thoughtless words. There are two ways escalation...
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...to search thousands of free research papers and essays. Search for your research paper topic now! Research paper topic: Premarital Sex - 1551 words NOTE: The research paper or essay you see on this page is a free essay, available to anyone. You can use any paper as a sample on how to write research papers or as a source of information. We strongly discourage you to directly copy/paste any essay and turn it in for credit. If your school uses any plagiarism detecting software, you might be caught and accused of plagiarism. If you need a custom term paper, research paper or essay, written from scratch exclusively for you, please, use our paid research papers writing service! Premarital Sex Premarital Sex and Religion The Catholic Church teaches that premarital sex is wrong, yet it is still widely practiced around the world. The reason marriage was created was to join two people of the opposite sex together in a holy sacrament that would make the couple one. God's reason for marriage is quoted in the bible when he said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" . The Sacrament of marriage is one of the most sacred Sacraments in the Catholic Religion. By performing premarital sex, the couple is breaking a covenant with God and is performing a sin. Marriage is the joining of a couple in the eyes of God and in the eyes of the State. When two people are joined into marriage they become on in flesh and...
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...Bachelorhood vs. Marriage A research report on the above topic for ‘Eng 105-Advanced Composition’ course as a partial course completion requirement. Prepared for: Mr. Abdus Selim Lecturer Eng 105 Section: 6 North South University Prepared by: Safwan Dawood Shams Id# 093-0670-530 Acknowledgement I would like to express deep appreciation and thanks to all the students of North South University who helped me by sparing their valuable time and participating in the questionnaires of the survey allowing me to complete my research within the specified deadline. I would also like to thank my course instructor, Mr Abdus Selim for his valuable guidance, support, instructions and all out cooperation in writing the research paper. Abstract This research paper is on the topic “Bachelorhood vs. Marriage”. Marriage has been a usual norm through centuries. It is a bonding that binds a man and a woman towards a new relationship with the aim of sharing responsibilities, happiness and sorrows till the day they die. It has been a normal phenomenon in the society which recently has been faced by some changes from the new generation. On the other hand, bachelorhood is a state where a man/woman is not married or not in a pair bond. It includes men/women who lives independently, outside of their parents’ home and other institutional settings who are not engaged in a bond of marriage. Through this research, I wanted to find out whether the upcoming generation is in for marriage or in favour...
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...Article Rebuttal BCOM275 The subject of this paper is a rebuttal to an article that focused on Proposition 8 that was introduced to the state of California in 2008. This paper will argue against the statements that the author said and give insight into how the author’s statements were misleading. First Statement “Now, two years later, though a federal court has declared Proposition 8 invalid under the U.S. Constitution, it nonetheless remains in effect. This state of affairs persists even though most people now support equal marriage rights…” (Brill, 2011). Brill is making a misleading comment here by saying that most of the country is in support of equal marriage rights. By stating that most of country now supports equal marriage rights is a bit of an exaggeration. According to the Pew Research Center, Americans for the majority are still opposed to same sex marriages by the tune of 46% against it (Pew Research Center, 2011). The results from the poll also showed that there was 9% that voted “do not know” and they were counted in with those that were for same sex marriage (Pew Research Center, 2011). Second Statement “The initiative proponents, however, have appealed. Now the California Supreme Court must decide whether unelected and unaccountable initiative proponents have the power to trump the judgment of the democratically elected attorney general” (Baume, 2011). This statement by the author is a way of classifying or assuming that all the people...
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...reproductive technology (ART) on women's marriage and fertility timing decisions and ii) the effects of time spent working on individual's obesity and health status and the mechanisms contributing to these effects. In two chapters, I examine whether greater affordability of ART has impacted women's fertility and marriage choices. ART consists of medical technologies that help women and couples with fertility problems conceive a child using such methods as in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Since the percentage of women facing infertility increases greatly with age, by making it affordable for women to delay family formation and then use ART to start families later if they face infertility, greater affordability of ART could induce women to delay marriage and childbearing. To formally identify channels through which greater affordability of ART might impact women's decisions about timing of family, I develop theoretical models of greater affordability of ART and women's allocation of time on work and family investment over the life course. To test the implications of the models, I utilize empirical strategies exploiting variation in the mandated insurance coverage of ART across U.S. states and over time. In the first chapter, I use linear probability models and the 1977-2010 Current Population Survey to examine the likelihood that women of different ages with and without mandated insurance coverage of ART have ever been married in order to compute marriage rates between age groups, the differences...
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...Psychological Effects of Marriage American Military University Abstract This paper explores one article on the effects marriage has on individuals that may have been depressed prior to being married. Research is conducted through numerous different couples of different ages, working status, and amount of children in the household. Research for the paper was conducted with the APUS Campus Library Pro Quest database. Studies suggest that either one person in the marriage may not be happy so the theory that people are happier after marriage isn’t true. Psychological Effects of Marriage Research has been conducted to show that people are happier after getting married if they were once depressed prior to their marriage. Does marriage really propose psychological effects change after getting married? Supporting studies have claimed different because individuals with in marriages are still not happy according to the data collected on the topic. The research could have been conducted more thoroughly to ask a few more supporting questions to see if all individuals are effected the same by marriage. In the article Depression and Psychological Benefits of Entering Marriage the Author states that the studies provided may not actually represent what the study was intended to. Marriage has different effects on all individuals of different ages (Frech and Williams, 2007). Case studies show the difference between people varies depending on the variables of the study. Many supporting...
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...Choosing a Spouse in the United States Michael J Bergloff, Alex Bothe and Ross Barry 5/10/2012 The objective through this research is to further understand how certain individual preferences influence the marriage process. Current and archived literature was examined on the topic of marriage matching tendencies in which lead to the development of a unique framework to evaluate the preferences of males and females. Several preferences were tested, which included income, education and age, to determine the effectiveness of the framework provided. These tests were constructed using regression techniques and empirical data from the American Community Survey to see if a positive correlation exists between the three independent variables and mate selection at the time of marriage. The results from the regression models of income, education and age reveal that these preferences play a predominant part of choosing a soul mate, further indicating that people seek a marital partner with characteristics similar to their own. I. Introduction Over the past several decades, there has been an increased discussion and study in social issues among economists (Becker 1973). One of the most prominent topics that has been studied and continues to be researched is the issue of marriage. For many Americans, deciding to marry and who to marry to are often considered the most important choices an individual can make. Furthermore, social scientists are particularly interested in the mating process...
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...dissolution of a marriage. The divorce rates goes back all the way to the seventh century, when The Puritans decided that marriage was a contract that could be broken under certain circumstances. This paper will examine the Pro, Con, and my viewpoint on should laws be enacted that makes divorce harder to obtain. First, the pro viewpoint is society would benefit if families stayed together. Firstly, a divorce reform would benefit marriages. For example, Beverley Willett, a journalist for the Desert News states that, the goal of a divorce reform is to educate couples of divorce and provide skills to help them improve their relationship (Willett). Thus, the divorce reform can help improve marriages. Secondly, Willett points out, “that divorce has become too easy because of...
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...The Catholic Church Attempts Bringing Their Own Back On the Same Sex Marriage Issue Abstract The following paper will argue for the Catholic Church against those Catholics within the institution what agree with same sex marriage. In fact, a little more than 50 percent of Catholics according to a recent survey by Pew Research accept and support homosexuality and same sex marriage (Lipka, 2014). There will be four opposing arguments make by the magisterium, which is the teaching of the Catholic Church, against same sex marriage. These arguments include; the teachings which prohibit homosexual activity, teachings that need to include those that promote the dignity of the person, the good of marriage as a social institution, and their religious liberties as they exist today. Pope Francis declares that homosexuals are good people they just practice immoral acts that are not accepted within the institute of marriage (Hale, 2015). Arguments are based on the magisterium and our religious liberties. There is hope that that those Catholics in agreement of same sex marriage will return to the beliefs followed by the magisterium following the reading of this information. Introduction The Catholic Church Attempts Bringing Their Own Back On the Same Sex Marriage Issue The Scriptures are not silent within the Catholic Church (Montoya, 2000). He claims that homosexuality in the eyes of the church is treated as a violation according to Scriptures, and a major one standing out is...
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...What are the possible consequences of divorce for children? Jimmy Beltran Devry University What are the possible consequences of divorce for children? I am writing this paper in response to the Journal of Marriage and Family titled, “Estimating the Effects of Parental Divorce and Death with Fixed Effects Models” by Amato, Paul and Anthony, Christopher. Amato and Christopher provide an inciting perception in support of a controversial issue that affects modern society. Amato and Christopher (2014) argue in support of the perception that increasing cases of divorces have a negative effect on children growth. In their research, Amato and Christopher (2014) use child fixed effect model to approximate the impacts of parent divorce in various outcomes. Two sets of data form the basis for this research. First, the researcher utilizes Kindergarten Cohort Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. The second approach involves the use of National Educational Longitudinal Study. The first model targets children below the fifth grade while the second, children between 5th and 8th grade. In both models, the researcher associated divorce with negative effects on children. In the second analysis, Amato and Christopher (2014) established a substantial variability degree in children’s outcome after parental divorce, as some children improved while others declined in health. The approximated impacts of divorce seemed to be strongest among children with the highest vulnerability...
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...marry an old men because of some different reasons when they are still are teenagers.2 This is kind of early marriage causes those child brides isolated with society, suffer from domestic abuse and become dependent on their violent husband.3 It may be shocking that there are 67 million child brides in 2010 and there will be approximately 142,000,000 child brides all around the world after only ten years later.4 More surprisingly, there will be 14 million new child brides every year.5 Now as situation of child brides is becoming worse and worse, this research paper will focus on analyzing three main causes of this pathetic reality. Firstly, some religions that allow existence of child brides can encourage their followers or their followers’ daughters to get married before eighteen. What’s more, developing countries and many rural areas where poverty widely existed contribute a great part to this growing tendency. Last but not least, lack of education also changes those 1 2 3 4 5 A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. The Phrase Finder. Web. 9 May 2014. Child marriages: 39 000 every day. World Health Organization. Web. 1 May 2014. Nilanjana Bhowmick. India Criticized For Not Co-Sponsoring U.N. Child-Bride Resolution. Time.com. 18 May, 2014. Child Marriage Facts and Figures. International Center for Research on Women. Web. 20 April 2014. About Child Marriage. Girlsnotbrides....
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...Cultural Differences In every culture, people work diligently to find a common ground for acceptance and tolerance. Typically, people are accepting of various social criteria that are oftentimes associated with a specific ethnicity. However, many individuals simply tolerate the beliefs, standards, values, and behaviors of other individuals in society while inwardly opposed to the model of the displayed behaviors of other individuals as it relates to another individuals beliefs, value systems, and other variables that influence how an individual functions in society. Individualism and collectivism is arguably two topics that are the subjects of continued debate and for that reason, this paper provides a comparison and contrast of individualism and collectivism. Additionally the paper provides a description of variables supporting the significance in understanding cultural differences as the differences relate to individualism and collectivism. The understanding of individualism and collectivism bridges the gap of understanding the similarities and differences between the two topics, provides a clear picture of various cultures, and facilitates sensitivity, and tolerance (Shaughnessy, Zechmeister, & Zechmeister, 2009). The ability to accomplish the sensitivity and tolerance portion allows for individualism and collectivism to be embraced and not feared. According to Segall, Dasen, Berry, and Poortinga (1999) a society can have an increase of individualism and collectivism...
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...12/4/12 Marital destruction out of dysfunctional marriage and Othello’s characters William Shakespeare is（1564-1616） widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of English literature and the most pre-eminent dramatist around the world. Among all his works, many literary critics regard Othello as the peak of his tragedies. Othello is not only a tragedy of family, but also a tragedy of love. Jealous psychology of the characters ultimately leads to the marital tragedy. Iago was jealous of Cassio and Othello, so he slandered and entrapped Cassio and Desdemona, which directly brought about the tragedy. Othello’s true love to Desdemona was utilized by Iago who had an ulterior motive. Driven by jealousy, Othello readily believed Iago, and personally killed his own wife, and eventually drew his sword to cut his own throat. Therefore, the tragedy in Othello’s marriage is largely rooted in jealous psychology. We analyze the reason effect this tragedy of marriage by following the premarital objective situation and the subjective married life. Othello and Desdemona’s marriage is doomed and dysfunctional from the beginning because of acute differences in marriage and due to Othello’s flaw of characters. We analyze the reasons which affect this tragedy of marriage by following the premarital situation then Othello’s characters in married life. To pave the way for detailed analysis, it is necessary to know about two types of marriages at that time. Jessica Tvordi says in “In quarter...
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...POLYGAMY Polygamy: The impact on Arab families in Israel Laura Kline Pennsylvania State University-York Dr. Darling HDFS 315Y Abstract Polygamy is a common form of marriage for Bedouin-Arabs in Israel. The unique structure of this form of marriage can create problems for wives and children. It can benefit the family members as well. There are multiple factors that can influence whether being in a polygamous family is advantageous or detrimental to those family members. The reasons behind polygamous marriage are examined as well. The marriage practice known as polygamy is viewed many different ways in different societies. In societies such as our own, polygamy is seen as a taboo that is not widely understood or accepted. In fact, in the United States polygamy is not legal and polygamous marriages are not recognized. Polygamy is a general term that refers to the two types of polygamous marriages. Polygyny refers to the marriage of one man to two or more women, which is the type of polygamous marriage this paper will cover. Polyandry refers to a rare type of marriage in which one woman marries two or more men. Some other societies view polygamy as an acceptable and sometimes necessary form of marriage. One of these societies is the Bedouin-Arabs in Israel, where polygamous marriages are common. These polygamous families are Muslim. The Islamic faith encourages men to have two or more wives if they can sufficiently support them (Al-Krenawi & Graham...
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...very thankful for preparing this research paper. First of all, I would like to thank my honorable faculty member Ms. Shirin Akter for all the guidelines she gave for this project and assisted me from every possible way. Next I would like to thank my parents for giving me necessary supports to complete this paper, specially my mother. Then, I must thank my friends who helped me to distribute my survey questionnaires to my respondents for several days. Finally, I should also thank my Lord, the Almighty, without whose help, none of this could have been a success. Abstract Bengali rituals in Bangladeshi weddings are the traditions and the customs which the groups of Bangladeshi people follow in the wedding ceremony. The rituals are inherited from our ancestors and we still follow the rituals in our weddings. Wedding is the one of the most important events in everyone life. As the time passes the rituals are changing day by day and there are rapid changes in the Bengali rituals took place and this is mainly because of generation. This research is concerned with the changes, importance and the significance of Bengali rituals in the Bangladeshi Wedding. My hypothesis is that generation plays quite an important role. It also looks into how the generation leads to a change in the Bengali rituals in the context of Bangladeshi Weddings In order to find out whether my hypothesis stands or not I have done some research on this issue. This research paper is based on both primary and secondary...
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