Category Archives: Love, Marriage and Weddings
Thus says a new study from the Australian Institute of Family Studies that says Cohabiting couples destined for singledom.
With a sister whose brain has been damaged by encephalitis leaving her without a short term memory, I was especially interested in this piece by Oliver Sachs in The New Yorker, A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss Clive Wearing, an eminent British musicologist, struck with encephalitis, loses his ability to preserve new memories as well as [...]
I found the story of the ‘Living Corpse’ who woke up after a 19-year Coma, an inspiring one, a Rip Van Winkle tale of our time. Hats off to the wife who cared for him for 19 years at home with great love and devotion, changing his position every hour to prevent bedsores. “I would [...]
Don’t you love it when economists start putting numbers on intangibles?
– Many experts predict that the growing surplus of unmarried men will cause an increase in violence, rape, prostitution, crime and the illegal trafficking of women. “The large number of unmarried men will disrupt the normal continuity of human reproduction,” said Zhan Changzhi, a sociologist at Hainan University, in an interview with a Chinese newspaper.
Some of these things are dearly missed; other items that were once thought precious get forced to the exterior and turn out to go surprisingly unlamented…. Regardless, the journey is theirs, and one would have a heart of stone to wish them anything other than good luck and Godspeed.
James Olwine married Katie Martindale in Las Vegas on March 4.
One Chinese official said in Facing the Future with 40 million bachelors China faces a future of crime and instability as a generation of 40 million men is left frustrated by a lack of brides, thanks to the practice of selective abortion of female foetuses, a population official has warned…. The growing crime rate in China which is being linked to China’s massive “floating” or transient population, some 80 million of which are low-status males China is beginning to promote the Girl Care Project while India plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls.
– 42 percent of college-educated married women who work out-earn their partners, and their marriages are just as stable as those in which the husband makes more than his wife…. About 45% of high-earning managers enter a conversational dead zone after a long workday, when they’re too pooped to say anything at all to their spouse or partner, says a December Harvard Business Review study of 975 global managers by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce.
The site, with its relatively lengthy process and subscription rates of around $60 a month (almost twice the price of other dating sites) reaches out to users who are clearly looking for much more than just a date…. “I know it sounds corny when I’m talking about this,” Mr. Waldorf says, but, “if you can lower the divorce rate by 1%, it could affect a million people in a generation.
