A Couple More Years

think of intercourse between a couple your age or younger? What does not come to mind is an old couple being erotic. Many folks do not want to think old people are still having sex after a certain age. Even so, many older people if they had a healthy sex drive while young, will continue to have a strong sexual drive as they get older. Sexual intercourse between an older couple may be less and less or stop over the years, but it may be due to multiple reasons. Couples, many without paying…

having gay parents. However, what the people who do not agree with the idea are shutting out of their thoughts are the positive effects that have been proven through many observations and studies that have been performed on homoseuxal individuals, couples, and families. For example, there are children who have grown up with gay parents and it has been seen that they are…

Marriage : How Couples with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Maintain Their Marriages. Marriage is the mutual consent of two individuals to commit and to devote each other 's unconditional love, understanding, and respect regardless their customs, beliefs and/or religion. The following research outlines the important factors that are essential to keep a solid marriage, while having children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). During the investigation, numerous couples with children…

Same-sex couples around the world have hopes to raise a family of their own; unfortunately, for homosexual couples, starting a family does not come as easy as it does for straight couples. Few men choose to use surrogate mothers; some lesbians have their own children through fertility clinics and sperm banks; and some couples choose to adopt. Adoption laws for same-sex couples in the United States vary widely state to state. Gay adoption could be the joint adoption by a same-sex couple, by one…

In the small country town of Vandalia a same sex couple were about to be married when they find out that they cannot be married because the town outlawed same sex marriage. They then decided to take matters into their own hands, they then decided to challenge the town of Vandalias’ ban on same-sex marriage. Three months later the town ends its ban on same sex marriage and the couple was finally able to be married, but their victory was short lived because a radical christian group then says…

to divorce, so the probability of a couple divorcing is reduced with every year older the couple is when they marry. Those who wed as teens are twice as likely to divorce as those who wed in their 20s, and that correlation continues with the increase in age (Crooks & Baur, 2008). Reasons people state for divorce include lack of communication, personality clashed, growing apart, abuse, infidelity, substance abuse and more (Crooks & Baur, 2008). Divorced couples in high socioeconomic status tend…

different races and ages throughout the decades until the new millennium. “The State of Our Union”, shows us that most people plan on getting married in their life ( Popenoe and Whitehead 390). The direction of persons getting married in the past forty years has decreased. One reason for the decline is the fact that men and women, whether single, married or divorced, wait until they were just shy of…

According to the Huffington Post, most married couples are happiest in their third year of marriage. Marriage is something to be known as a commitment and not as a one time romance. In my opinion one needs to know the other partner well enough in order to marry the other person. These days people get married without knowing the other person well enough leading to high divorce rates. During the first 5 years of marriage there is a 20 percent chance of the couple getting divorced. This may seem to…

sound of little feet running down the hallway waking you up in the morning. The vision becomes a reality for many couples who want to start families, but what about the couples who try and try but to no avail have no luck in conceiving. Imagine this, here you are with the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with, and you want to start a family. For months, even years you try to conceive but you’re having no luck, and many of the people around you are pregnant or have children.…

subject in the United States, but a case decided on June 12, 1967 arguably changed how people viewed this type of marriage. In the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia (1967), the unanimous decision of the case formally declared the marriage between a couple in which each partner was of a different race as a legal union. Upon marrying in Washington, D.C. and returning to Virginia, newlyweds Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in 1958 and “charged with unlawful cohabitation and jailed”…