Trending: Saying No To Marriage

by Laura | Aug 29, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles

The National Marriage Project, which conducts research on marriage and family in the United States, has a new report out on divorce, cohabitation and marriage. When it comes to living together, the research found that in the last 40 years… …there has been...

The Case for Marriage

by Laura | Feb 17, 2011

In the face of a persistently high divorce rate, climbing rates of single-parenthood and unmarried cohabitation, and some skepticism about whether marriage might be an outdated institution, Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher have assembled a thoughtful and...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

by Laura | Feb 3, 2011

Like Elizabeth’s Gilbert’s previous memoir, the bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, Committed also begins in crisis. In EPL, she is leaving her first marriage—and ends on a happy note when she falls in love with Felipe, an older divorcee living in Brazil....

Public Vows: A History of Marriage and Nation

by Laura | Feb 3, 2011

Though issues relating to marriage have seen much public debate of late, mostly marriage can be seen as a private contract between two people. In her ambitious and comprehensive study of marriage and its connection over the years to the American political and economic...

Twenty Somethings Weigh in on Marriage

by Laura | Jan 20, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles

OK still on the Prop 8 trial –I wanted to share this 29 year old woman’s take on the matter. Here is the text of Kristen Quay of Oakland, California in a Letter to the editor in January 18th’s San Francisco Chronicle: “Real threat: unmarried...