“Sex and the married American”
Read a May 22, 2011, blog item on how infidelity among politicians and celebrities is not symptomatic of most American marriages.
Category: Gender & sexuality
“Married Couples Are No Longer a Majority, Census Finds”
Read a May 26, 2011, New York Times article on new census data, analyzed by the Brookings Institution, showing that married couples represented 48 percent of American households in 2010. A fifth are traditional families, down from a quarter a decade ago and 43 percent in 1950.
“Will the Declining Marriage Rate in the United States Affect the Country’s Overall Happiness Level?”
Read a May 31, 2011, Science and Religion Today article on whether a declining marriage rate will affect the country’s overall happiness.
“How Divorce Lost Its Groove”
Read a June 17, 2011, New York Times article on changes in divorce trends among highly educated women.
“Is marriage a ‘dying’ institution?”
Read a June 17, 2011, Associated Baptist Press article about whether marriage is a dying institution.
“Gay Marriage: A Milestone”
Read a June 26, 2011, New York Times editorial on the state’s acceptance of gay marriage.
“Marriage Haves and Have-Nots”
Read a July 3, 2011, essay in The New York Times about the increasing disparity in marriage patterns of the affluent and the poor.
“The Growing Stigma Against Adultery”
See a July 28, 2011, post by The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan on Americans’ shifting attitudes about premarital and extramarital sex.
Annie Laurie Gaylor
Annie Laurie Gaylor is co-founder and co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis.-based national association of atheists and agnostics working to keep state and church separate. She previously served as editor of Freethought Today, the nation’s only freethought newspaper. She is the author of Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So and editor of Women […]