Marriage gap

Indu visits her ancestral home after a gap of ten years to attend the function of Akka and also to settle the disputes related with the property of ancestors. In her judgements, she was accepted to safeguard the interests of all those who were associated with the ancestral house. “In the novel…

Dr. Coontz discussed the many myths and realities of marriage, as well as the ways marriage has changed over time in her lecture “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.” She touched on topics such as: single parent families, step families, divorce, the stability of marriage, as well as the separate spheres for men and women. Dr. Coontz brought up many interesting facts about the history of marriage. She stated that contrary to popular belief, single-parent homes were…

Pulcheria agrees to the sacrifice of her daughter Dounia through the unfavorable marriage with the rich selfish man, Luzhin Petrovitch, for Rodya’s bright future. Pulcheria announces to Rodya that his sister’s marriage “may be of the greatest use to you, in every way indeed…from this very day you could definitely enter upon your career and might consider that your future is marked out and assured for you.” Through this marriage, Raskolnikov might be able to work as Luzhan’s secretary and get a…

Family therapy, as its name implies, involves participation from all members of a family, irrespective of whether it is nuclear or extended family. This form of psychotherapy is sometimes conducted by two therapists or a team of them. Some family therapy is based on behavioural principles, but they are mostly based on family systems theory which considers the whole family as the unit of treatment. Key emphasis are more towards relationships and communication patterns, rather than symptoms or…

being The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel Alone. Time I opened the book the information was so compelling it provided a base for me to dive deeper into understanding loneliness. I was first interested in the area about shopping because I shopping is an activity I do too much of sometimes. “There have been many cultural and social changes in recent decades that it is no longer safe to make assumptions about what a family is , what a friend really means, even what “marriage” is or should look…

vicissitudes of modern society’s marriage system and marital relations leading to frustration, conflict and loneliness.The present paper focuses on agony of Maya who feels trapped in matrimony. This paper also takes up the issue of the psychic cum social complexities of middle class Society. Here, the story revolves around Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle class home in Calcutta for the glamour of Mumbai, where she moves after marriage to Ranjan, a handsome ambitious…

According to the Annual Review of Sociology, 40% of couples break up within five years of cohabitation. About 10% remain in an unmarried relationship for five years or more. If a child is born out of this cohabitation, the child is born outside of marriage– in other words, the child is illegitimate. According Charles Murray, author of The Emerging British Underclass, illegitimacy “is the best predictor of an underclass in the making” . Murray believes that illegitimate children are more likely…

The Princess Bride’s tongue-tied Impressive Clergyman slowly and monotonously paints a picture of marriage, “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva.” Is marriage the beginning of a picture to be painted beautifully, or simply a canvas restricted by a frame? Young Mrs. Mallard has just heard the tragic news of her husband’s sudden, unexpected death. Paralyzed by the news, she sobs and runs…

number of child brides worldwide, despite the fact that the practice of child marriage is illegal in the country. This trend is particularly relevant, as it reveals that child marriage—a significant human rights violation—has seemingly continued unabated in the region. This exploratory essay aims to understand why the practice of child marriage remains in India. The paper will first provide a general definition of child marriage through the lens of human rights norms, as well as analyze how…

Sociological thinking has evolved over the decades to viewing polygamy as wrong and immoral. In the book “Introduction to Sociology” by Anthony Giddens, polygamy is defined as “a marriage that allows a husband or wife to have more than one spouse” (Giddens 439). Giddens continues to talk about monogamy which is defined as “married partner is allowed only one spouse at any given time” (Giddens 438). In early societies polygamy was more widely accepted because it made sense to have more than one…