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Marriage in the News: Taiwan Yearbook

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A new book, recently published by the Taiwanese government funded Foundation for Women’s Rights Promotion and Development has found that as much as 30 percent of women leave the job market after they get married. The Taiwan Women Yearbook – First Edition found that the number of Taiwanese women leaving the work force when they get married is commiserate with their level of education. Using official tallies the book offers that the ratio of women leaving their jobs after they get married is: 46% quit when they marry if they have only received the minimum nine year’s of education or … Continue reading →

‘Walking’ Marriages

So I was channel surfing this weekend and I came across a show on PBS that was talking about the Mosuo people of China. I’d never heard of them before, but what caught my interest was the statement about the matriarchal style of society that the Mosuo have. Apparently, the Mosuo people live in an area of the Himalayas around Lugu Lake in the Southern part of China. What makes this society so unique is that they are one of the world’s few remaining matriarchies. Among the Mosuo people, the women are in charge of all aspects of their society. … Continue reading →

Marriage in the News: The Good & The Bad

When it comes down to news articles about marriage of late, you can hardly scan a new search without seeing dozens of articles focusing on the issue of gay marriage and the legal battles that continue to draw their lines in the sand from coast to coast, including the current challenges to the law in the only state that recognizes gay marriage. While this issue continues to vex and frustrate supporters on both sides of the issue. It doesn’t help the cause when gay couples, which have apparently fought long and hard for the right to be recognized as married, … Continue reading →

Marriage in the News: A Whole New Kind of Marriage Debate

The following news story caught my eye and I have to say with all the articles headlining in the news over the rights of same-sex couples to get married (and I’ve more than expressed my opinion in this area so I won’t bore you here), this particular marriage debate definitely refreshed my interest. In this case, it’s an unconventional argument in a more traditional situation. When A Man Wants to Take His Wife’s Name In our society and in most of Western Society, it’s traditional for the wife to take her husband’s last name when he marries. I did it. … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review for Dec 23-29

Whew! What a week! We started with the roll into Christmas and we’re ending it counting down to the New Year. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve and we’ll be officially counting down the last few hours until 2007 is born. So let’s take a look at our last week of 2006 here in the marriage blog and the articles that we wrote to share with you. If you missed anything this week with the holidays, this is your chance to catch up on all of that. Saturday, December 23 We marked the approach of the end of the year with … Continue reading →

Marriage in the News: Traditional Social Structures

Interestingly enough, I read an article recently by an anthropologist that described some of the issues the U.S. is confronting in foreign countries, particularly our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The anthropologist remarked that as a country, the United States is relatively young. Our culture, our society, is the product of a blending of a multitude of cultures and that has grown in an unrestrained atmosphere. Cousin Marriage In Iraq, as in many other countries, cousin marriage is a central element in the social fabric of Iraq and according to statistics, more than half of all marriages that take place … Continue reading →

Marrying for Pleasure

According to a report by the National Marriage Project, marrying voluntarily out of love is one of the problems with marriage today. Marriage was once considered a mandatory economic and political institution according to the report titled 2006 State of Our Unions. The co directors of the National Marriage Project David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote the report. Marrying for pleasure is not the only reason Americans are less likely to marriage. Unfortunately, the other reasons cited in the report are not something I necessarily agree with. Those reasons included: The birth control pill that allowed for sexual relations … Continue reading →