Marriage

For women,delayed marriage—which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men—may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.

In addition, a growing share of young adults may be avoiding marriage altogether.

In Shanghai, a young couple at a marriage registration office told the paper that they decided to register their marriage as soon as possible to take advantage of the existing policy because an extra holiday was a big deal for them.

In the classic marriage vow, couples promise to stay together in sickness and in health.

So people who are rushing to register for marriage can relax.

The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for decades.

The first is the postponement of, if not retreat from, marriage.

The old stereotypes of men's and women's work have been changing more quickly than ever before, except perhaps in my own marriage.

He enjoyed his career and marriage.

He had more job satisfaction, a better marriage and was healthier.

Her marriage with a serious music critic has drawn her to his world, so she is now crazy about classical music and will not miss any chance to attend a concert with her husband.

I had hoped to send Peter a gift to congratulate him on his marriage, but I couldn't manage it.

Many cultures also celebrate birthdays and marriages with cakes that are cut and shared among the guests.

The most successful office designs are like a good marriage-the well-designed office and the employees that occupy it are seemingly made for each other.

Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and happiness of the marriage within that home.

Thus, in his view, diverse aspects of culture, such as the structure of families, forms of marriage, categories of kinship, ownership of property, forms of government, technology, and systems of food production, all changed as societies evolved.

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.

Each spouse retains whatever property he or she bought into the marriage, and jointly-acquired property is divided equally.

John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly"thin slice"information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in "thick sliced" long-term study.

Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.