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ifeminists July 14, 2004 Carey Roberts |
The Marriage No-Shows When almost one-quarter of single American men in their prime courting years - that's two million potential husbands - declare a Marriage Strike, we're facing an unprecedented social crisis. |
ifeminists December 4, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The Silence of the Wedding Bells The family is the very building block of a civilized and prosperous society. But there's one fact that's hard to dispute: our country faces an acute shortage of marriage-minded men. |
ifeminists August 12, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
The Marriage Strike In examining reasons for the current decline of marriage, one question usually receives short shrift. Why are men reluctant to marry? |
ifeminists August 31, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Marriage Movement at the Crossroads There is one voice that is conspicuously absent in the campaign to save fatherhood -- the Marriage Movement, which, sadly and inexplicably, has largely turned its back on men. |
ifeminists June 3, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
End the gay marriage debate! Privatize marriage Almost half of the adults in America are unmarried and single-person households outnumber married families with children. A glut of books and articles is suddenly declaring marriage to be either obsolete or rediscovered. |
Salon.com March 19, 2001 Maria Russo |
The marriage hoax Conservative moralists, alarmed by the divorce rate, want us to return to a Golden Age of Marriage. Too bad it never existed. |
ifeminists March 24, 2004 Carey Roberts |
Women Lose When Feminists Bash Women believed that when they entered the workplace, it would become a kinder, more compassionate place. They were wrong. |
Reason December 2003 Cathy Young |
Divorcees and Social Engineers Most people acknowledge that children are better off when they have fathers and when their fathers are actively involved in their lives. But where do we go from there? Fathers face off against the marriage movement. |
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Thompson & Sacks |
Undermining the American Family The American Law Institute, which exercises great influence on American jurisprudence, has just released a series of family law recommendations that would exacerbate our problems by trivializing the importance of marriage, encouraging divorce and accelerating fatherlessness. |
Salon.com March 28, 2002 Ann Marlowe |
Why do women wed? A new book argues that women put much more work into marriage than men do, and asks why they bother... |
ifeminists December 7, 2006 Carey Roberts |
The GOP's Betrayal of the Pro-Family Agenda When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. How did all this happen? |
ifeminists June 10, 2009 Emma Goldman |
On love and marriage A view on love and marriage from 1911 in Anarchism and Other Essays: they have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. |
Reason March 2004 Cathy Young |
Opening Marriage Do same-sex unions pave the way for polygamy? |
ifeminists November 23, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Requiem for the Leftist Welfare Utopia Leftists have devised a simple yet amazingly effective formula to engender social discord: break up the family, marginalize fathers, and then blame the whole mess on men. But now people are catching on to the game plan and dads are staging a comeback. |
ifeminists June 11, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Father Knows Best Several non-profit groups are working to increase father involvement after divorce. |
Salon.com June 24, 2002 Heather Havrilesky |
On bended knee Pro-marriage revivalists praise matrimony as the way and the light. But are they bowing to a false god? |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Cathy Young |
Sex and the Census Post-revolution data on toxic bachelors, choice, and children... |
ifeminists February 10, 2004 Carey Roberts |
The End of Saint Valentine's Day? I don't expect the Vagina Monologues will just go away. That's because this play represents the next logical step in the campaign of radical feminism to impose a genderless society. |
ifeminists June 29, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
The Gay and Hetero Marriage Quagmire What constitutes a marriage should be determined by contract between the consenting adults involved, not by government. |
ifeminists April 13, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Marriage and the Limits of Contract A culture full of people who violate their contracts at every possible opportunity cannot be held together by legal institutions. |
ifeminists July 8, 2007 Michael J. McManus |
Taken Into Custody Father's Day was not joyful for millions of fathers who had a divorce forced upon them, whose children were "taken into custody" by the mother who filed for the divorce. |
Salon.com June 7, 2001 Amy Benfer |
The nuclear family takes a hit Census data deals a blow to an American icon -- and the conservative groups that promote it... |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Michelle Conlin |
Unmarried America Say good-bye to the traditional family. Here's how the new demographics will change business and society. |
ifeminists August 5, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
The Marriage Quagmire The institution of marriage is in jeopardy. But it's the politicians themselves constituting the threat. |
Reason June 2003 Cathy Young |
Gay Rights Go to Court Sodomy laws, same-sex marriage, and the future of homosexual rights |
Salon.com October 4, 2000 Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
Pluck and circumstance Judith Wallerstein makes a case for marriage, and on rare occasions, a healthy divorce... |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
The myth of the deadbeat dad A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting... |
ifeminists May 17, 2006 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Sleeping in the Basement A defender of marriage responds to a reader's comment that it is hard to stay in a marriage in when the woman makes the man feel his only worth is in fathering children and paying the bills. |
Salon.com March 22, 2002 David Link |
Same-sex marriage, with a twist The Kansas Supreme Court enforces a ban on gay marriage and clears the way for -- gay marriage... |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Joseph B. Darby III |
A Whole New Ballgame The same-sex marriage ruling in Massachusetts raises many questions for financial planners, but answers few of them. |
Salon.com August 15, 2001 Amy Benfer |
I do -- kind of "I won't" feminists go up against "I did, but I have a good excuse" feminists in a holier-than-thou battle over what it means to walk that aisle... |
ifeminists July 8, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Lament of the Single Woman Radical feminists have succeeded in tilting the balance of marital power strongly in favor of women. And men, fearing that marriage may turn out to be a raw deal, have simply made other plans. |
Salon.com July 6, 2000 Cathy Young |
Team players or tools of the patriarchy? Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement. |
Reason June 2004 Jonathan Rauch |
Objections to These Unions What Friedrich Hayek can teach us about gay marriage. |
ifeminists July 16, 2009 Jim Peron |
Marriage's shifting status...and gay marriage today Marriage predates the Christian church. The recognition of committed relationships has existed in all cultures, for most of human history. |
Salon.com January 9, 2003 Sheerly Avni |
Unwedded bliss One of the founders of the Alternatives to Marriage Project talks about the deep-seated American fear that shacking up will lead to the fall of Western civilization. |
Salon.com July 10, 2000 Laurie Essig |
Same-sex marriage I don't care if it is legal, I still think it's wrong -- and I'm a lesbian. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Alexandra Starr |
Commentary: Washington's $1 Billion Lecture To The Poor Why a "pro-marriage" bill isn't likely to help much |
Reason June 2002 Mike Lynch |
Family Matters Welfare reform has liberals and conservatives calling for government action... |
ifeminists December 23, 2003 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Love and... Marriage and the meaning of sex The meaning of human sexuality is really at the heart of the conflict over the judicial attempt to recreate marriage in its own image. |
AskMen.com Michael Estrin |
6 Financial Benefits of Staying Single Because most guys don't think about their wallets when they pop the question, here are some things to consider before you get married. |
Reason March 2006 Julian Sanchez |
Friends With Benefits Ohio Rep. Tom Brinkman Jr.filed suit alleging the state's Miami University's benefit package is in violation of Ohio's anti-gay marriage amendment that voters passed in 2004. |
ifeminists February 16, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Love is Worth It Love is a lot of work. Everyone can see this. But it is worth the effort. Romance is a wonderful feeling, but it can't hold a candle lit dinner to committed love. |
AskMen.com |
Marriage Watches What are your thoughts on marriage watches? I like the idea of housing antique, original movements in a brand new case, but are these a form of creating a new masterpiece or a piece of worthless junk? |
Reason June 2004 |
Letters Opening Marriage... Confessions of a Welfare Queen... Faith, Shame, and Insurgency... etc. |
Reason July 2005 Cathy Young |
Bizarre Bedfellows The passing of Andrea Dworkin--feminist polemicist, anti-porn crusader, and loony extraordinaire--drew strangely admiring obituaries from several feminists who vehemently disagreed with her in life. |