Starting in the 4th Century when the Christians were free to practice their religion, bishops and priests were invited to wedding feasts and to bless the married couple. ... As time passed by, priests started assuming some of the functions that once were relegated to the guardians and the spouses themselves, and many of the secular customs in the wedding ceremony became part of an ecclesiastical wedding trial (Martos 37). ... Faithfulness to one's spouse implies that they are one flesh and one body. ...

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When preschool-aged children's parents get a divorce, they will often start to blame himself, viewing it as the consequence of their own misbehavior. ... An accumulating body of research indicates that this risk might be even greater for adolescents residing in single-father families" (Breivik, Olweus, & Endresen, 2009). ...

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Introduction Denmark, like all of Scandinavia, has experienced a marked socioeconomic development: from a classical agrarian society to a modern industrialized welfare state. Along with modernity came profoundly altered concepts of love, intimacy, sexuality, and gender. Denmark has a long tradition...

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Much research has been done to identify the factors that contribute to marital dissolution. Identifying these predictors of divorce can help better understand marital relationships and can help prevent divorce. The causes of divorce discussed in this paper include, equity of housework and its relationship with two-income families, the Exchange theory and financial problems, Role Specialization Theory, age at marriage and premarital sexual activity and cohabitation. All these factors are very important and have been applied to varying degrees to the two case studies. One is the case of the...

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