Actress Scarlet Johansson Says Monogamy Is Not Natural

After separating from her second husband, the actress Scarlet Johansson expressed her doubts about marriage. "I think the idea is romantic; it's a beautiful ...

'Time Magazine' Asks 'Is Monogamy Over?'

Time magazine recently featured an article that asked, "Is monogamy over?" The article offered various opinions, including "monogamy is a charade" that ...

Author's Glib Attitude Toward Marriage

Alice Gregory is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review and has written for the New Yorker, Harper's, and other American magazines. In ...

Holding Hands—The 'Spice' of a 47-Year Marriage

Gerontologist Dr. Karl Pillemer, whose new book 30 Lessons for Loving is drawn from 700 interviews, discovered that older adults "place intimacy as a ...

Marriages Strengthen Our Country and Ourselves

A small article in The Week, a secular source for world and American news, made the following statement:

Want to help America's economy and yourself at ...

Cohabitation Is not Like a Test Drive

The Census reports a 72 percent increase in the number of cohabiting couples since 1990. For many people in our culture, living together before marriage ...

Study Reveals a "Striking Exodus from Marriage"

In 2000, at the end of his 40-year political career, Senator Patrick Moynihan said, "The biggest change [that I've seen] is that the family structure ...

The Real Message of Unmarried Sex

If you're sleeping with the person you're dating, you're telling each other two things. First, you're telling each other that your relationship with God ...

Marriage Protects Love; Love Does Not Protect Marriage

An older married couple offered these words of advice to a young couple during their wedding ceremony:

Your love is priceless and needs to be guarded. ...

Children Born to Unmarried Women Reaches a New High

A February 2012 article in The New York Times analyzed the rising number of births outside of marriage. The article stated:

It used to be called illegitimacy. ...