Monogamy

obligation to remain true to their mate, but infidelity, or should I say marital unfaithfulness, would be unfaithfulness to that moral obligation. Infidelity is the leading cause of marriage dissolution and the single act is destroying the purpose of monogamy. “Approximately 97% of Americans believe infidelity is unacceptable, yet many people engage in extramarital sex” (Campbell…

This cannot be the other way around for example a difference in moral concepts is the practice of monogamy. After it is well established that the behavior is appropriate it would become really hard to challenge the norm if that is approved. If we accept this then instead of moral values being objective we accept them as a consequence of a social framework…

The major obstacle I foresee in working with couples is my individualistic worldview towards life. Subliminally, I may exhibit my bias towards independence, autonomy, and monogamy. My strong values for commitment towards only one partner may diminish the support in working with polyamorous individuals or couples in open relationships. In addition, I may struggle in working with the insider-outsider positions of a steprelationships. My values for prioritizing primary relationship may conflict…

disadvantage is that alienation is likely due to gatekeeping of the family sphere. In addition, lack of children due to infertility or impotency of one of the couples is another big disadvantage. Euro-Americans prefer monogamy because they’re married to someone that can provide emotional safety and security for them. Additionally, they’re married to someone that they genuinely love and care about. They weren’t arranged by their kin to marry the person. They had the freedom to choose who they…

In this regard, monogamy and polygamy comes into discussion because the question of whether a man can have more than one wife is a fundamental issue in marriage. In the teachings of Jesus in Matthew chapter 19 verses three to six indicates that “two will become one flesh”…

In the Qur’an, there is a verse revealed by Allah to Muhammad; this verse reads: “Indeed, the Muslim men and Muslim women, the believing men and believing women, the obedient men and obedient women...and the men who remember Allah often and the women who do so - for them Allah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward” (Surah Al-Ahzab). From this verse, there is a general sense that Allah looks at men and women equally, especially in respects to their reward of an afterlife. Although the…

Human social relationships all have one thing in common: the essential ability to form attachments. In order to form these attachments, the human body experiences seemingly miniscule yet significant changes on both a psychological level and a physical level. Two key factors that play into the biological level of close social attachment in humans, and in animals- specifically rats- is the role of the neuropeptides oxytocin (OXT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP). The close attachment one feels…

Matrimony, monogamy, and children either leads to happiness, hardship, or usually a combination of both. Sharon Olds’ touches these subjects in her poem “Station.” To fully understand the deeper meanings within the poem one must understand that Olds’ 35-year marriage was strained to the point of divorce, and that this poem records an event that occurs towards the beginning of this strain. She uses her husband’s description and their interaction as a canvas to paint her subject matter into…

It’s not surprising that he created a controversy in Protestant America with his support of polytheism, polygamy, and unity of power in contrast to monotheism, monogamy, and Jacksonian democracy. In addition, he viewed himself as a loyal servant to God by preaching to the masses in New England; perhaps it is why there were so many converts among the urban working class. He was like the right hand man to Joseph…

In Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins we get to follow emperor penguins as they make their annual march to their breeding grounds in Antarctica. We get to see how penguins court each other and how penguin chicks are dependent upon the participation of both parents in order to survive it's first few months. While the movie shares some compelling facts about the penguins it also distorts the viewers in the way that it's narrated. Does the documentary shares similarities to Flaherty's Nanook of…