... needs vary due to their own family position and personal experiences prior to, during and after the divorce (Stuart 202). Remarriage is a common feature of the family lifestyle in society today. Many recent studies indicate that children whose custodial parents remarried were found to be less ... on the part of the custodial parent leads to lower achievement rates academically, internalizing and externalizing problems, lowered self-esteem, and a weakened sense of social proficiency. Remarriage is shown to benefit African-Americans more so than the white population (Amato 1280-1281). Unf...

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... emotions or other structures of power. In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. Each woman feels trapped within her own life. The reasons for each woman's feeling of entrapment are ... be doing things for her husband and not for herself. However, by doing things for her husband, she is indirectly doing things for herself. She notes that if she retains her weight, then there is a higher chance of her and Leonard moving back to London, which is what she wants. ....

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... in their household when they spoke of their families. These dependents usually consisted of spouses, children, servants, apprentices, and co-resident relatives. Tadmor notes that the author of the Dictionary published in 1755, Samuel Johnson, defined the term family as, "those who live in the same house." ... as familial actions." Of course there were references to family as being related by blood or through marriage, but there was also a very common concept of family through relationships of authority, and co-residence. A household-family was considered to consist of people who live und...

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... for love and companionship, one reason for priestly marriage was that it ensured succession of the priesthood to their sons. It made social sense as a means of apprenticeship and for the passing on of wealth. • India Dowries are as old as India, but in ... Pennsylvania outlawed interracial marriages. For the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, marriage was strictly a civil and not an ecclesiastical ceremony until 1686. Under English common law, until the middle of the 19th century, married women had no legal standing. They could not own property, sign contracts, or legally ... different a...

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... to survive, and overcome his degradation. Mrs. Ramsay manages her husband in similar fashion. Lily uses her art as a focal point to maintain her sense of self; it enables her to remain detached. And the dinner party denotes something of the artist in Mrs. Ramsay: The candles, the fragrant and ... happened, and they were all conscious of making a party together in a hollow, on an island; had their common cause against that fluidity out there. (p.97) The guests are at ease; they feel safe, and some sense of comradeship. Mrs. Ramsay is in tune with this alignment and harmony: there is a coh...

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... practically" (O'Shea). Kramer states "Once both partners are allowed to be autonomous, the continuation of marriage becomes more truly voluntary. In this sense, an increase in divorce signals social progress," blaming the self-help movement of the 1970's for the skyrocket of divorce (James 487). Though ... steadily increasing until the 1970's where it jumped from 26% in 1967 to 33% in 1970, then on to 48% in 1975 (Jones). Jones notes that in the 1970's the no-fault divorce was first made available (Jones). "It was also the first time a spouse could cite irreconcilable differences ... cal...

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... qualitative investigation of the relational uses of television in marriage, to find out more. As stated by Haslett & Alexander (1998), television has always provided viewers with a common social reality that interpersonal communication can build upon. Many investigative studies in the past have focused around parent-child coviewing and have never ventured toward the types of communications that ... television as a shared activity and did not seem to cause problems in the relationship. The shared activity provides a common bond for the couples. Gantz (1985), noted "coviewing, even without...

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... her lifetime was the time she went outing together with her son Paul, but not the love time with her husband Morel. In certain sense, her son took up an important position in his mother's affection even her life. About these plots, the novel's author D.H. Lawrence ever ... son, there are some intimacy just like the lovers and so on. But, under the social moral standard, the family ethical conception and her sense of responsibility restriction, it makes her unable to set a substantial relationship with her son. On the one hand, she could gain some satisfaction; ... cannot discover, accep...

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... through to become one. In The Necklace, Mathilde Loisel, the main character, is symbolic for many reasons. Primarily, she represents a woman living a common lifestyle of the nineteenth century. Maupassant stated, "For women have no caste or class,"(103) which notes the lack of stature that women, like Mathilde, endured. Mathilde felt herself "Born for every delicacy and luxury" (103). In today's society ... her appearance change, but also she changes as a person and finally learns the meaning of hard work. For once in her life, she takes responsibility for her mistake. So in a sense, Ma...

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