NFL Star Refuses to Have Sex Before Marriage

NFL running back Shaun Alexander writes:

At the University of Alabama, I was meeting women from a lot of different backgrounds. My mother had taught me ...

Dangers of Cohabitation

In a 2007 edition of the New Oxford Review, Dr. A. Patrick Schneider II, who holds boards in family and geriatric medicine and runs a private practice ...

Divorce Is Bad for the Environment

A 2007 study conducted by researcher Jianguo Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University, suggests that divorce may be bad for the environment.

The ...

Family Brings Happiness

What makes someone between the ages of 13 and 24 happy is not what you might think, according to an extensive survey conducted by the Associated Press ...

Accommodating the Seven-year Itch

A 2007 survey by the U. S. Census Bureau suggests that a couple's odds of reaching their 25th anniversary are below fifty percent. Divorce rates are up, ...

"The Comeback Season": Man Explains Slippery Slope to Affair

The movie Comeback Season is about Walter Pearce (Ray Liotta), a married man who has a one-time adulterous encounter with his assistant at work. When ...

Elderly Woman Refuses to Take Shortcuts

While a college student, Heidi Neumark took a year off from prestigious Brown University to be part of a volunteer program sponsored by a group called ...

Marriage Has Rich Rewards

Creating a successful marriage is hard work. So it's nice to know you're getting paid for it. That's the word from a researcher at Ohio State ...

"What a Wife Wants"

Readers of Country Woman magazine were asked: What gifts would you like from your sweetheart for Valentine's Day? Several of the replies are below: ...

Bonhoeffer on Love and Marriage

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:

Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through ...