Essays on Married Couples

Sexual activity: Biastophilia

Biastophilia, referring to rape, represents the act of assaulting another person sexually without their consent. The victim experiences a surprise attack and continuous violent assault from a stranger as he or she struggles to attain organism and facilitated by an independent sexuoerotic arousal (Fierman 458). Biastophilia happens in different social contexts depending on the intention, social status, mental status, and the prevailing environmental factors. The following paper discusses the Biastophilia in two different social contexts. The first context represents a husband raping her wife (also referred to as marital Biastophilia) while the second context represents a mentally ill person ...

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In the past decade, there has been an increase in distress, emotional turmoil, and marital issues among couples across the globe. Most couples require family planning, care, and management services to cope with stress and disputes. There has been significant amount of research on interventions to manage disputes and marital distress among couples. However, majority of the couples remain untreated and continue to suffer from marital distress. The motivational health model was perceived to be an exceptional and effective strategy in assessing married couples and their well-being. In this paper, a team of researchers statistically assessed the impact of ...

Abstract

In a comprehensive, reachable way, Jerry Pipes and Victor Lee share their doctrines, faith, and ideas regarding the bedrock of the Church being situated in the strong pillar of family. Their image of family is both inspiring and pragmatic, concluding in an encouragement toward the building of the family church and the preservation of familial spiritual life. Their book Family to Family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy helps their readers understand that they have to go back to a bold and unyielding proclamation of the truthfulness of the Word of God. It clearly explains the nature of the Church's founding, ...

Film Studies Portfolio

Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

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The purpose of writing this research paper is to evaluate the legislative standing of abortion. Throughout history abortion has been a controversial issue, and still is. The US Courts have given their rulings on many cases involving abortions that have transformed over the time. Abortion is a controversial issue and has given rise to many questions in the context of political science and law. Several abortion related matters have been discussed in this work such as the brief historical account of abortion rulings in the court of the US, and the impact it had on the cases; how successfully ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world, the rate of divorce has assumed an increasing trend. Marriage dissolution is subject to numerous discussions and studies and demonstrates intricacies in regards to several influences, triggers as well as effects. The increasing trend in divorce rates and permanent separation among married couples has attracted a substantial amount of concern across the country as well as all over the world. As a result, so many studies and research have dedicated their work to examining the causes of the increasing rate of marriage dissolution in the society today. The rate of unsuccessful union between two adults ...

Essay – 1

Is it necessary to have children? There are few critics of the view who argue that life is much better without children since there is less pressure on parents and better living standard for them through avoiding the expenditure on children. In case of not getting married, children are mostly not desired due to the responsibilities associated with them. Even various married couples may adopt to not have children. Children make noise and disturbances in the house and they are additional responsibility for the parents. Children need regular attention and health care and they are required to be well ...

Cohabitation is an arrangement that involves two people, who are in a romantic relationship, living together as a couple without being formally married. Current trends show that cohabiting is becoming either a type of family system or a pathway to forming a traditional family through marriage. According to Finer and Philbin (2014), there has been a “growing delay of first marriage, which has been offset by increasing levels and duration of nonmarital cohabitation” (p. e272). Smock (2000, p. 3) states that the occurrence of marriages preceded by cohabitation between 1965 and 1974 was only 10%, whereas the occurrence of ...

Why Married Couples have Divorces

Marriage is not an easy task. Most of the couples even having good intentions end up their relation in divorce. There are many reasons married people get divorces. In this paper, major reasons are explained in detail. Married couples have divorce because of extramarital affairs. AARP published report in 2004, in which it is mentioned that infidelity plays an important role in explaining the reason of filing for divorce. Spouse begins to cheat each other because of many reasons, such as emotional abuse, physical and verbal abuse, differences in interests, anger, unequal appetite for sexual relations (AARP). Physical, emotional, ...

For a long time the ideal family resembled something out of “Leave it to Beaver”. The mother was in the home, baking homemade goodies and awaiting the father’s return from a hard day. Women were expected to reproduce. Children played outside, and never dared question their parents. If an accidental pregnancy happened outside of wedlock the girl was sent away to have it, or she and the father were forced to marry. Teenaged girls were more likely to get pregnant, despite the stigma that would be placed upon her. This is a far cry from the modern family, ...

1. Introduction Homosexuals are humans and that is a fact although many peopel argue that it is not a natural state because people are supposed to be heterosexuals. Most people are attracted to the opposite sex, but some there is also a significant percentage of homosexual people who also have human rights. Conservatives argue that homosexuality is not natural and hence homosexuality must not be condoned. But yet, progressives believe that homosexuality is indeed a human behavior and so they face the same challenges that heterosexual couples face. 2. Review of Evidence Homosexual people have trouble with their marriages ...

Critically Discuss Whether Life Insurance Should Be Perceived as a Luxury or Need In The Context of the Evolving Dependency Dynamic of the Modern Family.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the primary purpose of life insurance as a financial product and to analyze what are the advantages and disadvantages of having life insurance. Some recent statistics were used to create a framework of why and how many people purchase this product and what are the determinants which influence their decisions. When discussing whether life insurance is a necessity or a luxury, the price is the important ...

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This paper was prepared for Name of Subject taught by Professor Name of Professor Abstract Divorce of the parents is in most cases a stressful event in a child’s life. There are both short-term and long-term effects of divorce on children. The difficulty of these negative effects is determined by a set of factors: age and sex of the child, the extent to which the child was involved into the marital conflict of parents, the socioeconomic well-being of the family, and the level of support and understanding established in the parent-child relationship. In this paper the most important ...

There are probably very few people who have not heard the words from their wife or husband, “How much do you love me?” There are uncounted numbers of poems and song lyrics dedicated to the topic of the breadth and depth of undying passion. A constant stream of books such as “Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus” and “Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships” tout philosophies for providing understanding and excitement for couples. Romantic love may lead to the life-long commitment of a monogamous relationship, but it is generally known that the first ...

'Work-family balance', or WFB, is the topic that has garnered the interests of academicians, management Tsars, and researchers. With growing competition and stress in the business environment, family life is likely to get affected thereby putting a negative impact on the work productivity. Thus, making a balance between work schedule and family life is of utmost importance if one wishes to have an overall satisfied life. However, identifying related family-specific variables and studying their impact on work-family conflict ( WFC) are some of the pre-requisites to boil down to the balancing part. This paper aims to review the available literature ...