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Provided by Wall Street Journal: Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:49 AM
More women are taking their new husbands' names after marriage, research shows. But the decision continues to spark debate and confusion. The trend toward women keeping their maiden names after marriage peaked in the 1990s, when about 23% of women did so, then eased gradually to about 18% in the 2000s, says a 35-year-studypublished in 2009 in the journal Social Behavior and Personality. And increasingly, studies show women's decisions on the issue are guided by factors other than political or religious ideas about women's rights or marital roles, as often believed. |
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By Willard F. Harley, Jr., Ph.D.: Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 10:38 AM
Why are the differences between a man and a woman so valuable in marriage?
Marriage is between two entirely different kinds of people-a man and a woman-who complement each other in extraordinary ways. When they treat each other as equals, they both greatly benefit from their differences. By respecting each other's vastly different perspectives, and building their lives on the wisdom of those different perspectives, they grow together much wiser and stronger than either would ever be by themselves.
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