Essays on Married Couple

Since family has played an important role as one of society’s basic structures, it is important to recognize the factors that are responsible for creating this institution. Some people might argue that a family is a unit connected with genetic factors – that it includes parents, children and other relatives. However, to better understand a family, one must understand that the term ‘family’ is constructed in a social way. The value of family has different meanings in different parts of the world depending on a variety of social and cultural conditions. Even on specific aspects like aging, education, or ...

Jane Doe

Abstract An article published in Human Fertility, a medical journal, titled “Assisted Reproductive Technology: Islamic Sunni Perspective,” is the article that is summarized, analyzed, and reflected on in the following paper. Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART) has brought the advent of allowing pregnancy in situations that were once impossible. Couples with fertility issues could turn to ART as an option to conceive. Islam’s position on allowing any ART is set with a particular guideline. As far as the relevance of the article to the class content, there is clearly a strong correlation in ART and the rules and regulation ...

Choice 2: A married couple, both addicted to drugs, are unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. Does ethics support the law in this case? Discuss.

Initially, the ...

Communication principles and misconceptions

As a newly married couple, it is important for each of you to understand the basic principles of interpersonal communication. Peter and Rose, communication is irreversible. Once one of you says something to his or her partner, it is not possible to take it back. The impact of what is initially said remains in the mind of the partner in an inventible way. This is why it is important for a married couple to think before saying hurting words out of anger. Abuses and arrogance should get no place in marriage context since the partner may forgive you, but the initial ...

The dialectical relationship between love and material objects is complex. In the United States of America different elements in culture often take opposing sides: some, like most spiritual organizations, favoring the former, and others, like the capitalistic worldview, favoring the latter. O. Henry was one of this country’s most famous turn-of-the-nineteenth-century writers, who constantly incorporated its culture into his texts; “The Gift of the Magi”, one of his most famous and important short stories, deals with this dichotomy. Using many of O. Henry’s staples, it rests on irony to construct a bittersweet tale where love ends up prevailing. ...

Adultery and divorce are the factors that require great consideration because they affect the lives of most of people. In the cases of the adultery and divorce the counselor plays a significant role. Proper guidance by the counselor can help in saving the relations and lives of many individuals. In this paper, the counseling options and effective addressing of the situation involving adultery and divorce cases are discussed in detail from a counselor point of view. In an adulterous relation, people loss their family, job, dignity, trust, self respect, relationship with families and God. The commitment and the loyalty of ...

Institutional Affilitation

What does this documentary tell us about intimate partner relationships “back in the day” (i.e., when the women were first arrested)? The documentary tells us that intimate partner relationships that involved a married couple do not take into account the weight of the women’s testimony and experience. In the case of Ruby Jameson, her lawyer gave her advice to avoid mention of domestic violence and explicitly discouraged Ruby from using and citing the “Battered Woman Syndrome” that could have alleviated the prison sentence. Back in the day, the issue of domestic violence was not taken nearly ...

Humans are a diverse and ever-evolving species. Our relationships are complex, and sometimes we change them out of necessity. Many times, it can be difficult to categorize or define how we feel about one another, or the dynamics of the relationships we share, especially since they change with relative frequency. This has happened many times throughout our history as mankind has developed into what it is today. We are not a species that stays at a standstill with one another, even with intimacy. The definition of “family” has been written and rewritten, as we have redefined the classifications for what meets the ...

Management

Introduction Family is one of the most important aspects of personal life. Happy life of a married couple creates a strong foundation for personal well-being of both partners as well as for health, social development and happiness of their children. With increasing rate of divorce in modern society, the most common misconception about marital conflicts is that existence of those conflicts in a family indicates unhealthy relationships. In fact, marital conflicts are present even in the best marriages. But outcomes of the conflicts vary; and every married couple has all the capabilities to learn how to deal with negative emotions and direct ...

- Births to teenagers continues to increase in the United States I analyzed the government report of 2012, and have found that, amongst the teenagers who are in the age range of 15-19, there were about 29.4 births per 1,000 women. This had got reduced by 6% as compared to last year. And, if we compare these statistics with the reports of 1991, the rate has fallen by over one-half. Records were low for both 15-17 aged women as well as for the 18-19 aged women. We were able to find these reduced rates amongst all the ...

Sense of injustice and feelings of being mocked by animate and inanimate objects

A very qualified person can apply for a job and not get it. The person finds out that a less qualified interviewee got the job. That person will feel discouraged, angry and desperate. It is human nature to feel self-actualization. This person was denied that. They may feel disappointed and betrayed by the whole Universe because a less competent person was employed. Seneca says that that we cannot always explain our destiny by referring to our moral worth. Fortune introduces random elements into human destinies. (78) The employer must have had personal reasons for hiring the other person. Those reasons are probably ...

On June 26th, 2103, Supreme Court of United States issued a landmark decision where it enabled the federal government to recognize the same sex marriages in United States which at present is allowed in 13 states and the District of Columbia.The decision was a struck to Defense of Marriage Act which prohibited same sex marriage n the United States. However, reacting over the decision of ace court of United States, The Treasury Department ruled that legally married same sex couples will be treated as married for federal tax purpose. The rule applies to only same-sex couple legally married in any state, ...

A married couple views the gender role as less important in their marriage, but the society represents the roles of gender in marriage as a great consideration. There are a variety of roles for male and female after marriage and it is difficult to specifically define a role for the gender as it is traditionally defined; though there are cultural differences. The gender roles in a marriage are substantial, because over the years of marriage it becomes a team work to raise the family and understand the values of each other, and the life of a married couple does not get confined only by the ...

Organization:

Abstract The institution of matrimony is the one which has to wade through many troubled waters and thereby is considered to be one of the most volatile and sensitive relationships which is quite often threatened by infidelity. For instance, in today’s world, we get to see marriages falling apart like a house of cards and the culprit of these mishaps are more often not the infidelity of one or both of the partners. It is quite natural for a married couple to lose interest in each other’s personalities which if often perceived to be the root cause of ...

United States has been seen as the World super power since the end of WWII. Due to this idea of dominance and being the hegemon among other races, it is hard to picture US as a country with people living in poverty. According to one of the researches done by the national center, more than ten million children in America face hunger levels due to living in poverty (The World Bank). In most cases these people can hardly afford a good source of education, housing, food and many other basic necessities that one need to live comfortable. This issue has hardly ...

Abstract

Over time, vital relationships in one’s life, like the familial, become significantly soured. And, as relationships wither, so does people’s well-being. Marital sex life experiences changes with marital duration, and especially after having children, which affects their relationship and inner balance, one way or another. If marital sex is defined as a means of expressing one’s emotions and need to be loved, then it is clear why marital sex changes are considered an important factor to a couple’s and a family’s well-being. This paper will focus on exploring the reasons why and how marital sex changes and ...

Western, Arab and Indian

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Marriage practices in three cultures: Western, Arab and Indian

The concept of ‘marriage’ indicates the social, physical and spiritual union between two people. It happens to be a universal custom that plays a vital role in social expansion, through the formation of new families. One of the oldest practices in human history, marriage is treated as a cause for celebration in every part of the globe and is a rite of passage experienced by most people in spite of their diverse customs and lifestyles. In terms of the wedding ceremony, each culture and country possesses its own unique style ...

Ever since has man stepped over earth, he has an urge to develop his own family for the purpose of living a happy and contended life. Therefore, an immediate family is required for personal contentment which could be helpful in every hour of need. Different societies of the world have varieties of family set-ups, and there has been a subsequent change observed in the traditional family systems since the dawn of modernization. Usually, a group of persons who are connected through blood streams and who live under one roof is termed as a family. The family can be immediate, such as spouses and ...

Short Summaries

In Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri provides a collection of short stories about Indian people going through various life experiences. Specifically, Lahiri offers two short stories, “A Temporary Matter” and “This Blessed House”, which show the reader Indian people experiencing with different aspects of married life, i.e., to combat with grief, importance of communicating with each other and significance of compromise over certain issues that led to happy, contended life. “A temporary matter” is a story of young Indian married couple Shobha and Shukumar. They were living a happy married life just before the still birth of their son, after which ...

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1926), a film by F. W. Murnau, is an adaption from the short story Die Reise nach Tilsit, written by Hermann Sudermann. Vertigo (1958) is a psychological thriller that shook the world audience with the enormity of shock and the cinematic excellence of Alfred Hitchcock, the stalwart director. Both the films are similar as well as dissimilar in some respects. It is intriguing to look into the commonalities of theme of love in the films and how the two artworks differ in their outlook toward life. Both the films, though directed in different times, ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

Introduction

Debatably, marriage is one of the most important institutions in the community. Fundamentally, marriage concerns itself with the union of two individuals with the aim of establishing a family (Globalization; culture and education in the new millennium, 2004). Worth noting is the fact that in the olden days, marriage could possibly involve more than two individuals. This is because in most communities, polygamy was a normal social arrangement. Even so, polygamy is common today in some societies. For instance, the Islam religion permits a man to marry up to four wives. As such, the observers of the religion still bear some characteristics ...

Several scholars have studied the different cultures and traditions that existed in the ancient times before civilization as it is considered to have been developed. In these studies, some of the scholars have included the ways of life apparent in the societies of that period and the factors that affected the main developments that happened in those days. Some of the aspects of livelihood often studied include the rites of passage that one went through, the different roles of the different people in the society, their feeding habits, their marriages and family structures among many other factors. These studies ...

Same-Sex Marriage and Discrimination

Battles over civil rights have been fought for centuries in the United States. Slavery, the vote for women, and equal rights for blacks are just a few examples of civil rights issues that citizens fought for and won. One of the big battles being fought state by state today is the conflict over same-sex marriage. While some states have made same-sex marriage legal, other states have outlawed it. People for and against it provide many reasons why it should or should not be legal. In addition to listening to the reasoning of both sides on the issue of same-sex marriage, ...

A common law marriage is a union where a man and woman live together as a married couple would, but do not have a marriage certificate or license showing that they are legally married (Lind 1). Common law marriage is also known as informal marriage, or marriage by habit. There are many nations and states of America that have still not accepted this kind of marriage. However, a few nations such as Canada recognize such marriages and have provisions in their constitutions to regulate the way these types of marriages are handled. Research carried out in Canada shows that there has been a steady ...