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    The deliberation of the word marriage is connected to thoughts‚ feelings‚ emotions either its love marriage‚ arranged marriage or forced marriage. Antecedently‚ discussing the concept of forced marriage and arranged marriage‚ I would like to bring thoughts of the reader toward two stories related to forced and arranged marriage. Begin with a story of a poor family with only the father somehow making some earning and have two daughters that he wanted to get married as soon as possible because they

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    Arranged Marriage A recent article describes some of the benefits and pitfalls to arranged unions. First‚ parents who favor arranged marriages believe that they are more experienced and objective than their children. They will be able to make better‚ less impulsive choices regarding a compatible‚ and often financially supportive mate than their child will. In many cultures‚ disobeying the arrangement can lead to disownment and exile from the family. But for the children‚ arranged marriages can cause

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    played a vital role in changing the perception of the Indian mind. Love marriage is supposed to provide freedom and more independence as compared to arranged marriages where the girl/boy is chosen by the parents. The usual question of love marriage voters against arranged one is that how can anyone marry the person whom they don’t know? Amid popular love lore like Soni Mahiwal‚ India always had a long tradition of arranged marriages. With the advent of the British and the subsequent introduction of

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    Marriage and Cohabitation

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    five per cent of single women lived with a man before getting married. By the 1990s‚ about 70 per cent did so. Some people think that living together will lead automatically to marriage‚ but that often is not the case. Much cohabitation breaks up. For many other couples‚ cohabitation is viewed as an alternative to marriage rather than a preparation for it. However‚ this

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    Anna English 101.01 November 9‚ 2011 Marriage and Individuals “No matter what language people speak-from Arabic to Yiddish‚ from Chinook to Chinese-marriage is what we use to describe a specific relationship of love and dedication to another person” (Wolfson 90). In the essay “What Is Marriage” by Evan Wolfson‚ he argues that marriage is a very important custom to our society from both social and spiritual aspects of life. Wolfson believes that as long as two people are in love whether if it

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    People’s interactions of fidelity set the stage for the way in which they deal with infidelity in their relationships. As seen or heard‚ many women expect their partners to cheat‚ and most men don’t expect their partners to. These expectations determine subsequent reactions to infidelity. Research has reported that men and women experience their infidelity differently‚ women describe their infidelity as more emotional‚ where as men describe their infidelity as more sexual. For example‚ some individuals

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    Is marriage necessary or not? Human beings are subject to evolution‚ not only physical but mental too. During this evolution some of the human inventions evolved too and one of these inventions is the marriage. Even though‚ the marriage invention could be attributed to religion; the marriage still continues to be a human invention. Going back 40 or 50 years we will see people living a happy ever after story in the marriage and some of those marriages still continue together until our days. Where

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    term “marriage” developed. In their book‚ The Ties that Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation‚ Bachrach‚ Hindin‚ and Thomson define marriage “as a legally and socially recognized union‚ ideally lifelong‚ that entails sexual‚ economic‚ social rights and obligations for the partners” (3-16). Since the evolution of marriages‚ there have also been arranged marriages. This can be seen as the arrangement of a marriage by a third party‚ usually by the couple’s parents. Arranged marriages may lead

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    III-Bs-Social Work Research 1 The Effects of Early Marriage to the Educational Attainment of Children in Sta Ines West‚ Sta. Ignacia‚ Tarlac CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Child marriage is defined by the World Health Organization (2005) as the period between 15 and 19 years of age when girls contract a permanent sexual relationship. At a global and national level‚ there has been growing concern about girl-child marriage age (The Family Life Movement of Zambia‚ 2006; UNICEF

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    By Kagweh F. Macharia Research Summary Traditionally marriage was an institution between a man and a woman with the primary purpose of bring up a family. However‚ things have changed over the years and now the latest issue; same-sex marriage. In as much as this issue has elicited hot debate pertaining to validity and acceptance of the notion of homosexual marriages in the society‚ it is a common knowledge that two men (a man and a man) or two women can not bring forth a family. The stand of this

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