long and hard to get the same rights and benefits as their heterosexual counterparts. Now, employers and health care providers are being forced to listen to their cries for equality. Should employers offer health benefits for domestic partners of gay employees? This question is forcing society to think about, and possibly change, what their definition of couple/family truly means. As would be expected, most employers offer health benefits to their heterosexual employees and their
Alternatives for Extending Spousal Status for Homosexuals in Canada Charter litigation and the advocacy of gays and lesbians is forcing Canadian lawmakers to deal with issues related to the regulation and support of domestic relationships, and in particular to consider how to extend legal recognition to same sex relationships. A legislative response would be preferable in terms of consistency, fairness and expense. There is a substantial financial and psychological burden placed on those who
promise to reside with a stranger, and even to some people as a union arranged by their parents, marriage is a widely varying ritual practiced all over the world. In the United States, marriage is a freedom of choice and an act of love, supported with benefits and privileges from the government. It has traditionally been the union of a woman and a man, made with the expectation of permanence and the aim of producing and raising offspring. Tradition, however, is beginning to change. The divorce rate is
endorsing and practicing the biblical mandates of marriage may include overall marital quality, which includes marital satisfaction–sanctification, marital commitment–covenant, and marital happiness–holiness. What would be helpful for clinicians providing treatment to clients within this population is a way to differentiate between clients who both practice and endorse these belief systems. If differences in marital quality are identified between those who endorse and/or practice biblical principles
called ‘false consciousness’, this is to benefit the capitalist system. Feminists have studied the impact of family life on women, different feminists tend to agree that women are exploited in the family in many ways and that women occupy a minor spot or position within the family. Marxists feminists consider capitalism to be the main exploiter; Marxists look at this in terms of unpaid work that they carry out in the family household, this includes all domestic tasks and emotional work. Just like the
with high levels of cohabitation (Bumpass, L.L, & Sweet, J.A. 1995). Studies show that marital satisfaction is usually very high at the beginning of couple life, but declines consequently with the accretion of duties related to child rearing, work, domestic tasks, etc. Later in life, marital satisfaction is restored somewhat when the couple regains some intimacy (Kiernan, K. & Estaugh, V. 1993). In addition, studies show that marital distress or dissatisfaction is a problem for elderly people just as
holding them back from obtaining everything that they need in order to exchange vow and marry. Pros of cohabiting with a significant other may including help a partner that may not financially stable at the time, a couple could be young and want to experience something different with someone that could potentially be their lifelong partner, or even an unplanned pregnancy may have fast forwarded their planning. In this case the couple may need to be with one another to fulfill their duties as parents
and recognition as a mother. The policies related to these changes were the Domestic purposes Benefit policy, Equal Pay Act, Matrimonial act. These changes were flawed but still for some improve the opportunities a women had. The state relationship with women in Aotearoa New Zealand has changed over the past two centuries. Initially, from the 1800s through to the mid-1900s the colonial state has viewed women as the domestic carer with their main role in society being having families and being wives
movement and their vital importance within their families. However, they were still considered inferior compared to men and not compensated equally for their labor. Glenn states, “ The result was that although women were looked upon as breadwinning partners in the Jewish family, they remained second-class citizens in the larger society .” Traditionally, Jewish men were responsible to sustain their family economically and women would stay in the home rearing the children, enforcing religious customs
live-in arrangement, this is approximately 1% of the total population."("Family." Comptoms Encyclopedia. 1992 ed.) Living together, more formally known as non marital cohabitation, is an emerging lifestyle. In fact, "More than one fourth of all unmarried couples living together in the early 1980's were between 25 and 34 years old, and an additional 19 percent were 45 and over."("Today's Families."Detroit Free Press 18 October 1995: B17.) Although living together is not a recent invention, the