"We have seen an increasing momentum towards the legalization of equality in marriage, " Sklar told CNN.
The group's director, Diana Nammi, said in some traditional communities children are promised in marriage at a young age.
The study also found a correlation between hours spent on paid work and the frequency of sex in marriage.
But, in truth, the state's involvement in marriage is both inevitable and indispensable.
The laws of 1969 and 1970 that streamlined divorce and codified women's property rights in marriage were almost all his doing.
"It's really a way of securing what you believe in, " says Wendt, who founded the Institute for Equality in Marriage in 1998.
Patton's insight is that the Rosin strategy is shortsighted--that it is dysfunctional from the standpoint of a young woman's long-term interest in marriage and childbearing.
Such allegiances can be confirmed in marriage, as they were in the case of Algerian militants who have settled in northern Mali and married locals.
Over the ensuing eight years covered by the study, only 18 percent of these unions ended in separation and only 12 percent ended in marriage.
The reasons for this decline in marriage and family are complex.
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"We usually talk about plot--you might say that comedy ends in marriage but that it's about frustrated love and overcoming obstacles to romantic pairing, " says Witmore.
So, what did change, starting around 1960, to account for the decline in marriage rates, the sharp increase in divorce, and the explosion of out-of-wedlock births?
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They also favor preservation of the family rooted in marriage between one man and one woman as the key building block of a healthy, democratic society.
The references to women in the Koran range from personal issues to the question of divorce, and from the law of inheritance to fidelity and partnership in marriage.
Nora Ephron, who wrote and directed, is interested less in food as something to cook than as the binding and unifying element in marriage, dinner parties, and friendship.
Catholics for Choice said it launched its campaign after pressure from religious groups forced the Kenyan government to drop an advertisement in March promoting condom use in marriage.
Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has found that it doesn't lead to less intimacy in marriage when wives hold paid jobs.
But whatever the impact of divorce on children, no government is likely to deprive women of the freedoms they have won, in marriage and at work, over the past 50 years.
Mr Straw has never concealed his strong belief in marriage or his personal reasons for this: his separated parents, his own divorce, the trauma of finding his teenage son involved in drugs.
However, it wasn't until October, 2010 that William asked for Catherine's hand in marriage in a remote hut in a wildlife reserve on the slopes of Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak.
Given that this is a Leap Day, and if we were to go by Irish tradition, today gives women the power to ask their beaus, boyfriends and significant others for their hand in marriage.
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Forbes staff writer Susan Adams recently discussed the state of the office romance in 2012, where CareerBuilder has recently reported 31% of relationships that start off with office dating end in marriage.
Work has increased markedly for women, but consistent with their rising education levels, longer delays in marriage and childbearing, and reduced fertility, this is mainly reflective of greater opportunities to balance work and family.
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Although most men say they support -- even welcome -- the idea of a dual income household and equality in marriage, evidence shows that men whose wives earn more may actually be suffering on a number of levels.
Another study of 592 pregnant women published in Marriage and Family Review in 1997 found 46% chose adoptions, and the 69% of those who picked the adoptive family reported less grief, regret and sadness than those who didn't.
From a church whose acoustics are meant to have the likeness of "singing in a violin, " to a chapel that literally and metaphorically unites a bride and groom in marriage, the buildings featured in the gallery above, challenge design notions of sacred spaces.
In marriage, you make sacrifices.
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Frankie takes off back to Malta as soon as he gets the chance, but not before he has bartered away one daughter in marriage to a lemonade merchant who promises him discounted soft drinks and watched another become a pyromaniac who ends up in care.
He believes the decline in marriage is largely down to a sharp fall in the earning power and job prospects of non-college educated American men, many of whom now lack the means to get married, leaving their offspring "doubly disadvantaged" - lacking both assets and a stable home.
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