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TeacherAide The First Epic SESSION 2 ILLUSTRATING
THE POINT The Problem with Living Together Dr. Nancy Moore Clagworthy
spent ten years researching people who lived together without being married.
When she began her research, she was "convinced that living together apart
from marriage was a good thing. Maybe better even than this whole stuffiness of
marriage. Let's just live together. Isn't that more natural?" She wanted to prove that in a
scientific way. She interviewed couples who were living together. She observed
the development of hundreds of people as their lives unfolded. She found that
living together without marriage is one of the worst things that can happen to
anybody. Why? Because the context of safety is gone. Citation:
Wayne Brouwer, "Beautiful Music," Preaching Today Happy Marriages Improve Health People in happy marriages are
healthier. "Studies have shown that happily married women have less
blockage in their aortas, and that happily married couples are less likely to
suffer from heart disease." When a relationship is healthy and caring, the
partners tend to discourage bad habits and encourage good ones, leading to fewer
illnesses and more attention to health care. Citation:
Sanjay Gupta, "Say 'I Do' to Health," Time (6-7-04) THE
MORE YOU KNOW Common-law unions break up
more often than marriages, but many people keep returning to them, according to
a Canadian study of conjugal relationships. While marriage still accounts for
the majority of relationships, its traditional dominance has given way to the
growing popularity of common-law unions. According to data from the 1995 General
Social Survey: Women whose first conjugal
union was a common-law relationship were almost twice as likely to separate as
women who married first. Young people were more
inclined to live common-law with their first partner. In 1995, only 1 percent of
women aged 60 to 69 lived common-law in their first union. In contrast, 38
percent of women aged 30 to 39 chose common-law first, while 52 percent of those
aged 20 to 29 chose common-law. The likelihood of the first
relationship ending in divorce or separation has increased significantly. While
25 percent of women aged 60 to 69 experienced a break-up at some point in their
lives in 1995, over 40 percent of those in their 30s and 40s had already gone
through one. Citation:
"Canadian social trends: The changing face of conjugal relationships,"
The
Daily (3-16-00) I
THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SAY Male and Female Views of Creation Female View:
God made man and said, “I can do better than that,” and made the women. Male View: God made beast and man, then rested. Then He made woman, and no one has ever rested since, beast, man, or God. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”: A
Wife’s Influence Maria Portokalos assures her daughter,
Toula, that she can change her husband’s mind about allowing Toula to go to
college and leave the family business: “The man is the head, but the woman
is the neck, and she can turn the head anyway she wants.”
Citation:
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Playtone
Pictures, 2002) Percentage of American adults who
disagree with the statement: “A wife should submit graciously to the servant
leadership of her husband”: 69 percent Disagreement declines slightly (to six
in 10) when survey respondents are reminded that the statement is taken from the
Bible. Citiation: Emerging Trends (April 1999); based on a Gallup Poll “Girls, don’t have babies before
you’re ready—and ‘ready’ means being married! Raising children is the
hardest work you’ll ever do. It’s selfish to deny a child its best chances
in life. And it’s foolish to deny yourself a future.” – Sadie and Bessie
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