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While multiple factors play a role in falling divorce rates, the costs of separation make going it alone a daunting prospect for many Canadians.
A growing number of Republicans say that you shouldn’t be able to divorce simply because you’ve fallen out of love. It’s an idea with a long history.
Marriage isn’t the most important factor for family or child wellbeing.
Whether LGBTQIA+, or sceptical of romantic love as the best foundation for their family, many are looking to the Internet to find co-parenting partners with whom to raise a child.
Relationship anarchists argue that we should relate to one another as equals and accept that intimacy can take many forms.
Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
Many Christmas-themed movies centre around single people searching for love. But many people are increasingly happy being single and in no rush to find a partner.
In emphasizing the church’s love for all, including people in LGBTQ+ relationships, the pope has sidestepped thorny doctrinal issues.
Zora Simic has never been married, nor wanted to. She assesses two new books about feminism and marriage – Clementine Ford’s polemic against it and Rachael Lennon’s history of its reformation.
Australians could once claim compensation for injuries arising from a broken engagement. Today, the responsibility for romantic injury has been individualised and feminised, its pain trivialised.
Their desire to pursue marriage abroad not only reveals their longing for a better life but also reveals the pervasive gender, age and class inequalities that continue to plague modern-day China.
The Modern, a debut novel centred on an Australian researcher at New York’s MoMA, muses on modern art and relationships – riffing off MoMA artists like Grace Hartigan and Nan Goldin.
With dads being the primary earners in many heterosexual households, it was often the mother who gave up work to manage extra work at home during the pandemic. But what about heterosexual households where the mother was the primary earner?
A prenuptial agreement can help millennial couples navigate concerns about student debt in their marriage.
The impact of divorce on job performance can be profound, affecting individuals on both personal and professional levels.
Divorce is still rare for high-profile politicians and any political consequences of the separation will likely unfold in the months to come.
Many Canadians likely have a great deal of empathy for what Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are going through right now — which is why opposition politicians should too.
The Marriage Bill should strike a balance between preserving non-discriminatory cultural and religious practices and promoting liberal values.
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