History of Marriage

Is It Time To Retire The Word 'Wife'?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.16.2012

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Lisa Belkin

What, nowadays, is the meaning of the word wife? It certainly is not what it used to be -- but it hasn't yet come to mean something new, either.

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Marriage Has Always Been One Man And One Woman? Not Really

James Peron | Posted 03.04.2012

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James Peron

The moment someone tells me "marriage has always been" something or another, I know they are ignorant of the actual history of marriage. It has never "always" been anything. It has taken different forms, with different social rules attached.

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Love Stories: Is Marriage Necessary?

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011

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Wednesday Martin

While marital and couples therapists tell us how to save our marriages, sociology, anthropology, and human behavioral ecology suggest that it isn't so much married couples as Marriage itself that's in crisis.

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