Search Results for 'Marriage'

7 ways to fix your crumbling marriage

Is your marriage on the rocks? Well, here's how you can save it. Alisa Bowman, in her new book, ''Project: Happily Ever After,'' offers advice and tips to other ''miserably-married'' couples who may be [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Lovemaking In Love Before Marriage - Debate

Lovemaking', with all the modern thinking and thoughts, is still an offense before marriage. It was a taboo till few years back. Well, the word lovemaking, is never a crime, it is an expression of love but yes there is a debate on wh [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Love and trust lead the measures of a healthy marriage

On gauging the health of a marriage: I have a simple yardstick for making a determination. Marriages need love, trust, honor, respect and desire. The people in them also need to embody the adjective forms of those words: lovable, tr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Anti-gay-marriage Anglicans amass $6-million war chest

A growing group of dissident Anglicans, who broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada over opposition to same-sex blessings, amassed nearly $6 million in donations in the last fiscal year. And 22 per cent of those donations were made [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Parole sought for fake marriage

A petitioner, Samsuddin Sheikh, was spared by the Gujarat high court from contempt proceedings after he tendered an unconditional apology for submitting a false affidavit, false marriage invitation card, and for making people tell [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

As we fall out of love with marriage, Infidelity drops!

The marriage gap is in the news again because it is declining, but so too is divorce and infidelity. According to W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Ghana must clarify stance on same sex marriage

The National Coordinator for Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF Ghana), Bernice Sam, is proposing to the Constitution Review Commission to use the opportunity to clearly define Ghana’s stance on same sex marriages. Acco [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

14-year-old bride defends controversial marriage

A 14-year-old Malaysian Muslim schoolgirl has defended her controversial marriage to a 23-year-old teacher after an uproar from rights groups, a report said Sunday. Teenager Siti Maryam Mahmod wed Abdul Manan Othman last weekend in [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

I Don't Care: Young love and marriage

“WOULD you marry a 14-year-old girl?” a cousin asked me over breakfast last Sunday, to my bewilderment. “Why should I?” I retorted with a frown on my face. I just didn’t get it why he threw me the question. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

How to end child marriage

Dhaki is from the southern region of Ethiopia. At age 13, instead of going to school, Dhaki was marrried and tended cattle for her family. Her husband, 11 years older than she, regularly forced himself on her. Her nightly cries were igno [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Daley wants state to 'move faster' on gay marriage

After a historic vote legalizing civil unions this week, Mayor Daley on Thursday welcomed the Illinois General Assembly into “this new century” and urged lawmakers to “move faster” — and legalize gay marriag [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

No Last Push by Paterson to Legalize Gay Marriage

Gov. David A. Paterson, still unhappy about the defeat last year of a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage, reached out to lawmakers recently to see if they would approve it during the lame-duck session this year. But even th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Anti gay marriage

Have you been asked about your view on gay marriage? Has your local member knocked on the door, put a leaflet in your letterbox or asked you to send an email? Federal politicians in the lower house voted two weeks ago to seek the views o [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Is Marriage Obsolete?

I am still recovering from Thanksgiving with my extended family. All of the food, the libations, and the baffling conversations that seemed to rise up out of the din, only to get subsumed by more eating and drinking. One of the more odd [...]