| July 7, 2007 | - An Iowa State University study suggested that the happiest marriages are those in which the husband defers to the wife in all decisions.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 6, 2007 | - In Washington state, proponents of same-sex
marriage pursued legislation that would annul all connubial unions still barren after three years.
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Washington News
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| January 16, 2007 | - Researchers found that the majority of women in the United States are living without a spouse.
| Source:
NY Times
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| December 7, 2006 | -
Democrats in Congress announced that beginning in January members of the House would work five days a week. “Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R., Georgia), who spends more than half his week at home. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families--that's what this says.” The Democrats were also trying to stop smoking on the Hill, and attempting to block a $3,300 congressional raise.
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Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| November 8, 2006 | - The civil war in Iraq was breaking up marriages. “I love my husband, but my family has forced me to divorce him,” said Hiba Sami, a Shiite woman who was married to a Sunni man for 18 years. “We have four children and every day they cry because they miss their father.”
| Source:
Reuters Alertnet
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| August 29, 2006 | - Warren Steed Jeffs, who reportedly has 80 wives and 250 children and serves as the leader of a polygamist Mormon sect, was arrested in Nevada on suspicion of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
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AP via New York Times
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| July 25, 2006 | - In Maryland one U.S. Senate candidate said he did not knowingly pay for 20 heroin addicts to come to his campaign rally, while another was arrested for raping his 19-year-old mail-order bride.
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Washington Times
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| July 19, 2006 | - U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia claimed that God supported a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriages. “I think,” he said, “God has spoken very clearly on this issue.” “It's part of God's plan,” said Texas
Congressman John Carter, “for the future of mankind.” “We best not,” said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez, “be messing with His plan.”
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Washington Post
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| July 7, 2006 | - The high courts of Georgia and New York both upheld bans on gay
marriage.
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Forbes
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| July 1, 2006 | - In Rajasthan, India, a low-caste bridegroom on a horse was stoned by onlookers when a camel in his wedding procession ran amok.
| Source:
Hindustan Times
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| June 2, 2006 | - A woman married a cobra in the Indian state of Orissa. “Though snakes cannot speak or understand,” said the bride, “we communicate in a peculiar way.”
| Source:
Breitbart
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| May 5, 2006 | -
Kansas raised its minimum marriage age to 15.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| August 22, 2005 | - In Iraq ten people were shot dead north of Baghdad, a family of five was killed by gunmen in Samarra, and the U.S. military denied bombing a wedding party in Hit.
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MSNBC
Source 2:
Reuters
Source 3:
Reuters
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| August 10, 2005 | - Women in Sudan were committing adultery so that they could be arrested and thus obtain a divorce; Sudanese men are often resistant to divorce because it requires them to return a bride's dowry. “He wasn't caring for me,” said Ding Maker, an imprisoned woman whose dowry was 90 cows. “I don't mind staying here.”
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Washington Post
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| July 26, 2005 | - A Nebraska man was charged with having sex with the thirteen-year-old girl whom he had wed legally in Kansas.
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AP
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| July 18, 2005 | - Investigations into the expenses of former Tyco executive Dennis Kozlowski revealed that Kozlowski had once held an extravagant
bachelor party for his son-in-law. “It wasn't like a three-ring circus,” said the son-in-law's father. “It was a nice party. There was only one dwarf.”
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| June 3, 2005 | - A British man, happily married for eighty years, was asked for the secret to marital bliss. “'Yes, dear',” he explained.
| Source:
Mail & Guardian
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| April 30, 2005 | - Surveys found that at least one third of the wives in Kyrgyzstan had been abducted and forced to marry against their will. “I told him I didn't want to date anyone,” said one woman, “so he decided to kidnap me the next day.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 18, 2005 | - A judge in Pennsylvania refused to let two first cousins marry.
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Boston.com
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| March 1, 2005 | - Most Hungarian adults were found to be single.
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AFP
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| January 12, 2005 | - In India, men were calling tsunami relief help lines, offering to marry women who lost their husbands in the recent disaster. “I have no caste barriers, and my parents are very supportive of my decision,” said one caller.
| Source:
Times of India
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| January 11, 2005 | -
Nas
married Kelis.
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USA Today
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| January 10, 2005 | - Jennifer Aniston dumped Brad Pitt,
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News.com.au
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| December 16, 2004 | - Scientists announced that 70.6 percent of husbands are obese.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 9, 2004 | -
Canada's supreme court ruled that the government can define marriage to include same-sex couples.
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AP
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| December 3, 2004 | - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, resigned in order to spend more time with his wife of forty-seven years.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 6, 2004 | -
Saskatchewan legalized gay marriage.
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New York Times
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| November 4, 2004 | - Eleven states passed ballot initiatives banning gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 15, 2004 | - A Dutch princess notified her husband in a newspaper advertisement that she wants a divorce.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| October 2, 2004 | -
Spain's cabinet approved a measure legalizing gay
marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 15, 2004 | - Two Canadian
lesbians were granted a divorce.
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New York Times
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| August 25, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney said that he opposes a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage; he explained that he has a gay daughter and that marriage policy is best left to the states.
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Washington Post
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| August 13, 2004 | - Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey announced that he is a "gay American" and resigned. "I am here today because, shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," he said. "It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable."
| Source:
Men's News Daily
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| August 6, 2004 | - Two Nigerian policemen were shot and two were stabbed in a battle with wife swappers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 4, 2004 | -
Missouri's voters approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 22, 2004 | - It was reported that one of the first lesbian couples to get married in Canada filed for divorce within five days, though Canadian law does not yet recognize same-sex divorce.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
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| July 15, 2004 | - The Senate killed a proposal for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 13, 2004 | - A runaway cement truck killed 17 guests at a wedding party in Java, Indonesia.
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Straits Times
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| June 25, 2004 | - Happy married women have healthier hearts than lonely unhappy women.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 22, 2004 | -
American forces attacked what survivors said was a wedding party in Iraq, near the Syrian border, and killed at least 43 people, including 12 women and 14 children; U.S. military officials said they had attacked a safehouse for foreign fighters and that there was no evidence of a wedding; confronted with video footage that strongly supported survivors' claims, an official said: "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too."
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Associated Press, New York Times
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| May 17, 2004 | -
Homosexuals were lining up to get married in Massachusetts, and President Bush again called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
| Source:
CNN
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| May 8, 2004 | -
Chile legalized divorce.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| April 28, 2004 | - Scientists discovered that women tend to marry men who look like their fathers.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| March 27, 2004 | - Benton County, Oregon, decided to stop issuing marriage licenses to heterosexuals.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 6, 2004 | - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was named as the new executive editor of Muscle and Fitness and Flex magazines, said it was fine with him if voters want to change the law to permit gay
marriage.
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New York Times
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| March 3, 2004 | -
Homosexuals continued to get married around the country.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 25, 2004 | -
President Bush came out in favor of a constitutional amendment banning gay
marriage.
| Source:
CNN
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| February 21, 2004 | - A federal judge declined to ban homosexual marriages in San Francisco because opponents had failed to show that the weddings were causing "immediate harm."
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 21, 2004 | - King Norodom Sihanouk said that Cambodian
homosexuals should be permitted to marry.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 18, 2004 | -
Homosexuals were lining up to get married in San Francisco.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 14, 2004 | -
President Bush changed his mind and decided to let Canada bid on Iraqi reconstruction projects, and he announced a new plan to spend $1.5 billion to promote heterosexual marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 22, 2003 | -
Marriage makes women happier, a new study found, but men feel better while living in sin.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| December 18, 2003 | - The Journal of Marriage and Family
reported that most American parents yell at their kids.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 17, 2003 | -
President Bush came out in favor of a constitutional amendment outlawing homosexual
marriage.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| November 19, 2003 | - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that homosexuals have the right to get married.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 5, 2003 | - The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt condemned gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 31, 2003 | -
President Bush announced his opposition to same-sex
unions.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 27, 2003 | - The Malaysian government decreed that a man may divorce his wife via text message; under Islamic Sharia law men are allowed to divorce their wives by uttering the word "talaq" ("I divorce you") three times.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 2, 2003 | - Senator Bill Frist called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 4, 2003 | -
A three-year-old boy and a six-month-old girl were married in Nepal; the ceremony was briefly halted after the bride got fussy but resumed after both the bride and groom were breast-fed.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
In Nigeria, an Islamic court ordered that a man who cut off his wife's leg because he believed she was cheating on him must have his own leg cut off without anesthesia.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Seven thousand virgins in Tanzania got together and promised not to have sex until marriage.
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| August 28, 2001 | - After 26 years of deliberation, Brazil decided to throw out a law that allows a man to annul his marriage if he finds his bride is not a virgin; the new code will take effect in two years.
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| August 21, 2001 | - A Zambian archbishop renounced his marriage, which was performed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and reconciled with the Pope, who had threatened to excommunicate him; the bishop's wife said her husband was a prisoner of the Vatican and went on a hunger strike.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Singapore's highest Islamic authorities declared that Muslim men, who can divorce their wives by stating “I divorce you” three times in quick succession, may not do so via cell phone text messages.
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| August 14, 2001 | - In Nigeria, an Islamic court refused to allow a woman to divorce her husband because his penis was too large.
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Trade
unions and human-rights groups filed suit against Coca-Cola for allegedly hiring right-wing death squads to terrorize workers at bottling plants in Colombia.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
Alabama raised the legal marriage age to 16.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Russian women were not getting married and having children because too many Russian men were not earning enough money; the
New York Times considered this to be yet another example of “freedom's toll.” A woman succeeded in introducing DNA evidence of infidelity into a divorce proceeding, a first.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group, announced that he was ready to negotiate a peace; the government issued a press release saying they would fight “until the enemy is totally eliminated.” Venezuela's supreme court ruled that President Hugo Chávez can proceed with a referendum to ban independent labor
unions and replace them with one national government-controlled union loyal to President Hugo Chávez.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Germany's lower house of parliament passed a limited gay-marriage bill.
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| November 0, 2000 | -
Connecticut legalized gay marriage.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| September 19, 2000 | - Dutch legislators thumped their desks enthusiastically as they passed a law giving gay couples full marriage rights.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Gloria Steinem was married at the home of Wilma Mankiller.
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| August 29, 2000 | -
A new biography of former president Richard M. Nixon revealed that he medicated himself with Dilantin, a mood-altering drug, without a prescription; the book also charges that Nixon beat his wife.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Newt Gingrich married a former aid, Callista Bisek, in Alexandria, Virginia; it was the former House Speaker's third marriage.
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| August 1, 2000 | - The House of Representatives voted unanimously to ban the execution of pregnant women in response to remarks by Vice President Al Gore that a “the principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case.” British Columbia asked the Canadian supreme court to affirm the validity of gay marriage.
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