One fifth of the couples in the study fell into the category that the authors call a rescue marriage. Many young men and women today have grown up fearing that because they were abused as a child, they are destined to repeat those sufferings throughout their adulthood too. ... Companionate couples share the economic burdens and child rearing. ... The third task is to expand the circle to include children, taking the new roles of parenthood from infancy to time when the child leaves home, while maintaining the emotional richness of the marriage. ... The fifth task is to make the relationship sa...

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One-fifth of Canadian children have lost a parent to divorce, with an effect that some sociologists now say can be "worse than a parent's death." ... Make sure your child knows that he/she is not the cause of the separation. Keep your child's routine consistent but not to the point where it interferes with the child's relationship with the other parent or interferes with the importance of being reasonable flexible. ... Mastering the ability to maintain flexibility without negatively affecting the child is an excellent skill to develop as it teaches the child how parents can ne...

• Word Count: 1707
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A key factor in how traumatic the divorce will be for the child, is how well the parents deal with the child's concerns, fears, questions, and anxieties" over the divorce (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2001, p.496). Additionally, the quality of a child's relationship with the parents prior to the separation or divorce may influence how the child reacts to the divorce. ... The child may also be removed from their friends or relatives. ... Fifth, children need to understand that the divorce is final. ... Being a child of divorced parents is not always negative. ...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With this being said, it is evident that the union that comes along with same-sex marriage cannot bear a child. ... Since they cannot bear a child, they cannot create a family as well. ... Third, it is accepted that homosexual relationship are not able to bear a child. ... Fourth, as stated earlier, there are ways for them to obtain a child. ... Fifth, their claim concerning decrease in population is actually a slippery slope. ...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School

The parent that would take care of the social and emotional growth of the child, not to mention the teaching of personal needs of the individual child's growth. The female has also been the one parent with the responsibility of seeing that the school age child was well read and homework was complete. ... Children are taught how to use foul language by hearing acceptable playground or social language at school and inappropriate things that would have be terminiated at the onset by the mother would have more time to spend with the child, it the child's bad behavior could have been avoi...

• Word Count: 1586
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• Grade Level: High School

They went on in the next couple of years and had another child, they had a child from before the marriage, and life seemed unstoppable for the two. ... But, not only was Diego working for the family, trying to gain her parent's respect, as a ranch keeper on the family's ranch but, was giving Cassie, Nicholas and Sharon's oldest child, horse back riding lessons and was very much involved with their lives. ... Just to give an idea, Victor (Nicholas' father) had married Nikki twenty years ago, and they have since been divorced four times now, they are working on the fifth ma...

• Word Count: 1567
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• Grade Level: High School

Instead the sex would render the poor child in the Doctor's sense. ... At the end of the novel her father's will is revealed, which is at first dedicated to her and then revised leaving her only one-fifth of what she had before. ... She was not the child that he wanted and she is not graceful, elegant, intelligent or distinguished like her mother was. ...

• Word Count: 1511
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This resulted into incompatibility and unhappiness among the married partners, which she claimed was the major causes of most divorce in America even though the rate of divorce in Mali were low since women did not have rights to child custody among others. ... The rate of infant and maternal mortality is also high in the region because the author claims that one in every twelve women dies when giving birth while one in every five children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Athenians have words that translate as physical acts for a marriage for the sake of having a child, they also have words that translate as "cohabit" or "live together." ... "It is no accident that the most famous woman in fifth-century Athens was the foreign-born Aspasia, who started as a hetairai and ended as a madam." ...

• Word Count: 1886
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In Deboer vs Snyder, the plaintiffs sued the state of Michigan over the state law which restricted child adoptions to single or married individuals. ... Love vs Beshear is the fifth lawsuit involved and is the second relevant lawsuit from Kentucky. ...

• Word Count: 1936
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The two women agreed that they would raise and support any children together; this lead to both women conceived a child by artificial insemination through the donation of the same anonymous sperm donor. ...

• Word Count: 2402
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fifth concept I learned about was cultural relativism. ... This form of marriage is interesting because the parents are in control of who their child marries, and then it up to the children to accept each other only after they are married. ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School