Questions tagged [marriage]
the legally or formally recognized union of a man and a woman (or, in some jurisdictions, two people of the same sex) as partners in a relationship.
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Does marrying young lead to a higher probability of divorce?
As this article by the London School of Economics states, there is a "popular belief that marrying young leads to divorce." In support of this claim, the same article notes that:
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Are 1/20 undocumented immigrants married to American citizens?
The Washington Post reported,
An estimated 500,000 immigrants, most from Mexico, married to U.S. citizens will be eligible to apply for permanent residency through their spouses. Federal law requires ...
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Did East Germany (or other countries) require a physical exam in order to obtain a marriage license?
In Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the titular character
Is there a historical basis for mandatory premarital exams?
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Is a married woman in Michigan required to have her husband's permission to cut her hair?
Many sources indicate that there is a law on the books in Michigan requiring a married woman to get her husband's permission before cutting her own hair.
According to the Huffington Post article The ...
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Is this Swedish government pamphlet a guide for men who have married underage girls?
From this tweet, by a tweeter who claims to be located in Sweden:
No Joke: Sweden’s board of health and welfare and the migration authority just released this pamphlet called “information to the ...
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"Chance for a Spinster": Is this a real newspaper advertisement from 1865?
I recently encountered this tweet, claiming that an ad was placed by a man "Looking for a wife in 1865." (Click image to enlarge.)
CHANCE FOR A SPINSTER. -- A young man in Aroostook County, ...
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Are forced marriages allowed in Iran?
The Gatestone Institute says in its piece Islam's "Human Rights":
fundamentalists allow forced marriages of female children in countries
including Saudi Arabia ... and Iran.
It links to the ...
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Do married cancer patients have lower death rates than single cancer patients?
This article posted on a Russian news portal claims that American scientists have found a beneficial effect of marriage at treating cancer:
Как сообщает Lifenews со ссылкой на The Washington Post, ...
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Is it prohibited to marry more than one woman in US?
It's a wide belief between Islamists in my country that in the West, men are not allowed to marry more than one woman even if all parties (both women and the man) accept it,
As Islamists view it, ...
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Does marrying a relative confer fertility benefits?
While doing research today I run into this piece:
An Association Between the Kinship
and Fertility of Human Couples
Previous studies have reported that related human couples tend to produce more ...
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Did men sell their wives on Wednesbury market?
To my knowledge wife sales on Wednesbury market were a bit of a family legend my great-grandfather used to tell. However, it seems to be more widely spread than that. I have found an article which ...
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Is the declining desirability of marriage gender specific?
Of late, and perhaps it is simply the circles I wade through, I have been hearing that there is an imbalance between the decrease in the number of men who wish to get married and the number of women ...
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Does marriage between first cousins double the risk of birth defects?
From The Guardian:
Marriage between first cousins doubles risk of birth defects...
Is this true?
After all, the Rothschilds (richest banking family in human history) are known for inter-marriages ...
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Are there 40,000 children of same-sex couples in California?
In 2008, California citizens passed a controversial amendment to the state constitution, Proposition 8, defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
Recently, the US Supreme Court has begun ...
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Do married people live longer than single people?
It is a common belief that married people live longer than single people.
For example, The Telegraph reports:
Men and women who are married or in long-term relationships are more likely to survive to ...
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Does polygamy result in less infidelity and prostitution?
An answer (now deleted) at the new Islam.SE site made the following claim:
If one takes a look at society where polygamy is banned or discouraged, you will see that some men will always try to ...
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Are modern women disposed to hypergamy more than men?
Hypergamy is the act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status.
According to Wikipedia:
Some evolutionary psychologists believe that women exhibit mate-selective preferences ...
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Cohabiting couples more likely to divorce?
v0.2 of myself was Catholic; subsequent revisions have removed this feature from my code base. In any case, I went through Catholic marriage prep, and was married in the Catholic Church. At the ...
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Are children from divorced families more likely to become divorced themselves?
I've heard people making this claim both in real life and on TV; but I think one can also argue that children growing up with separated parents are more likely to be careful when getting married, and ...
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