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is recognized in some states (see http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/ table_marriage for information on your state).Common-lawmar ...

theNebraska marriageamendment which hadbeen passedby 70%of Nebraska votersin theNovember 2004election.The amendment consistedof ...

ask yourself these questions:Who decides the definition of family? Do families always live together? How do we understand“being ...

Chapter 1 Throughout most of world history and in most societies,including the United States, newly married couples lived under ...

Why Marriage and Family? mind-sets.Thefamilyoforiginisthe strongestinfluenceonachild’s development—forbetterorforworse.Itis impo ...

withotherhomelessindividuals(Pippert, 2003).Thisisespeciallytrueforstreet childrenwhosometimescreatewell- structured“streetfamil ...

tentativeandmay change,dependingon howwemeasurephenomena.Whilea variety of methodscan beusedin a scientific study,allscientific ...

examples of hypotheses made in the science of marriage and family might be the following: In each of the above hypotheses, there ...

Analyze the Data.Scientistsare interestedinfactsandhowtheyfittogether toexplainaphenomenon.Inascientific study,eachresponseorobs ...

While science gathers data about what is occurring in marriages and families today,the Bible can reveal the underlying causes be ...

The real mystery is that God loves us at all.C.S.Lewis suggests that God is so full of love that it overflows,and He can’t help ...

Abraham and Sarah,“I will confirmmy covenantwithyouandyourdescendants afteryou,fromgenerationtogeneration. Thisistheeverlastingc ...

have ratified their covenant.This sacrament is viewed as a“mystery” (Ephesians 5:31-32) in which God’s involvement can never be ...

gave up His life for her”(v.25 NLT). Thesearedifficulttasksinaculture wherewomensometimesseekto overpowertheirhusbandsandmen som ...

This chapter lays the groundwork for what is to follow.After explaining why it is important to take a marriage and family class, ...

Whataretheadvantagesof nuclearandextendedfamilies? What scientific methods might be used to explain why someone chooses to marr ...

Diversity and change have been the only constants in the history of the American family. —Mintz,2001 In the beginning God create ...

Adam and Eve initially lived and worked in a perfect world.Imagine a world where you wouldn’t dread getting out of bed in the mo ...

family.Each group shared a culture common only to its group.Family forms differed among the various groups and included nuclear ...

structure of the traditional Native- American family and threatened its very survival.The immigrants—who were to become the domi ...