Skip to content

Category Archives: Marriage

Falling in Love with Me

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

  PATRICK writes: Attached is an article in which the author recounts her decision to terminate her marriage. It is so familiar, so tired.  It is narcissistic and at points even solipsistic.  There is no thought given to duty or morality.   She infrequently refers to her husband’s feelings, and such references seem hollow.  I think [...]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Part II

Thursday, January 20, 2011

   I have become a Socialist not because I believe it would ameliorate the conditions of the masses (though I think it would do so) but because I believe that only under communal ownership of the means of production can you arrive at the most perfect form of individual development – at the greatest stimulus to [...]

Also filed in Famous Couples, Feminism, Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

Famous Couples: Beatrice and Sidney Webb

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

       Sidney Webb the socialist dined here to meet the Booths. A remarkable little man with a huge head on a very tiny body … somewhat unkempt, spectacles and a bourgeois black coat shiny with wear; somewhat between a London card and a German professor. His pronunciation is cockney, his H’s are shaky, [...]

Also filed in Famous Couples, Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

The French Family Dissolves

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

  Jesse Powell writes: There is a movement in the United States to bring about civil unions not just for homosexuals but for heterosexual couples too. It’s interesting to observe how this idea has been instituted in France and its effect on French society. France has not abolished marriage but it has done the next [...]

Also filed in Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

Illegitimacy, Class and an Anti-Child Culture

Friday, April 23, 2010

  IN THIS PREVIOUS ENTRY, Jesse Powell and I discussed the differences in illegitimacy rates and family stability along class lines, looking at the widely held view that because the college-educated and affluent suffer relatively low rates of out-of-wedlock births, they are not seeing serious levels of family breakdown. We continue our discussion here.

Also filed in Illegitimacy, Masculinity, Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

Births to Unmarried Mothers Exceed 40 Percent; White Fertility Low

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

  JESSE POWELL WRITES: The federal government has released the preliminary birth data for 2008. For the first time the out-of-wedlock birth ratio is over 40 percent in the United States, at 40.6. For non-Hispanic whites the ratio is at 28.6 percent; for Hispanics (who may be of any race) it is 52.5 percent. For non-Hispanic blacks [...]

Also filed in Illegitimacy, Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

A World of Mister Wrongs

Saturday, February 20, 2010

    WOMEN HAVE reacted with outrage at the proliferation of books and Internet sites recommending Game and pickup strategies for men. At the same time, many women pursue their own reductionist romancing. Lori Gottlieb, the author of the new book Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, has made a big [...]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

One Father’s ‘Remorseless Interrogations’

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

  SOMETIMES it seems the world has been emptied of fatherliness. You know, father, the big guy who lives with your mother. You know, the guy who says no. Maybe the world took Jean-Paul Sartre too seriously when he said, “There are no good fathers … It is not the men who are at fault but the paternal bond which [...]

Also filed in Masculinity, Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

The Unfaithful Wife, cont.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

  Fitzgerald writes: I was glancing through some of your older posts and found this entry on unfaithful women. I wanted to offer a few comments on the remark by a woman reader who said women have been forced to put up with male infidelity for eons.This is, sadly, very naive. While it may be true that [...]

Also filed in Female sexuality, Male and female relations | | Comments (0)

When a Husband Fails as a Man

Sunday, December 13, 2009

  A reader takes strong exception to my advice to a woman who feels her husband is not manly. Laurence Butler, in his comments in the previous post, writes to the woman: If the leadership role has been temporarily vacated, you had better step in lest your children grow up to imitate a stoic but sorrowful [...]

Also filed in Male and female relations, Masculinity | | Comments (0)

Married to a Wimp

Saturday, December 12, 2009

  Dear Thinking Housewife, Men are not taught how to be men nowadays. What can I do about the fact that my husband is such a girl? Regards,                                                                                   Anonymous (in an unspecified location)   Dear Anonymous, I’m sorry, Anonymous, this question makes me mad. Not mad at you, but mad at this. In many ways, the debate over marriage [...]

Also filed in Fatherhood, Feminism, Male and female relations, Masculinity | | Comments (0)

Marriage and Ideas

Saturday, December 5, 2009

  Marital compatibility is an inexact science. It goes without saying that like race and like culture are no guarantee of a good marriage. Leaving aside these larger cultural issues, there seem to be two general types of incompatibility: ideological and psychological. The first is far more serious than the second. Two people can be entirely [...]

Also filed in Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

Marriage and the Merging of Worlds

Friday, December 4, 2009

  Sheila Coyne writes in regard to the recent discussion on intermarriage: I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this thread, and thought I’d add a comment. I was raised in a liberal, agnostic, culturally Jewish household and as a teenager spouted the usual liberal platitudes – what’s inside is what matters, love transcends all, [...]

Also filed in Race | | Comments (0)

A Wedding in Prison

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

  As marriage becomes more meaningless, weddings become more extravagant and bizarre. The wedding day is now a chance to display originality and defy tradition with ironic gestures and theatricality. I thought I had heard it all until I read this about a couple who got married in a former prison. Eastern State Penitentiary was built in the early 19th century and is famous for [...]

Also filed in Weddings | | Comments (0)

Soccer Moms and Same-Sex Marriage

Thursday, August 20, 2009

  This winter, the legal battle against California’s ban on same-sex marriage heads to federal court and may ultimately end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court may declare government-supported traditional marriage unconstitutional, setting the stage for civil upheaval and an inevitable battle over a federal amendment. The most radical of social experiments is closing in upon us. What [...]

Also filed in Same-sex marriage | Tagged , | Comments (0)