Gender marriage
What if the law recognized and supported all kinds of adj adult relationships? That’s the scrutinize I explore in More Than Marriage: Forming Families After Marriage Equality. With marriage rates having dropped to about 50%, and with escalating attacks on the LGBTQ+ community, consideration of this issue is well overdue.
The Legal Benefits of Marriage
Marriage comes with an enormous array of federal and state benefits, such as income tax deductions and social security survivor payments, the right to sponsor a partner for immigration purposes, joint adoption, and the right to sue in negligence for the injury or death of an intimate partner. In addition, marriage is often necessary to access a partner’s employer-based health insurance policy. Unequal access to marital rights and benefits was a primary catalyst for the marriage equality movement.
Marriage Equality Movement
I became engaged with legal relationship issues during the marriage equality movement, writing and speaking on the subject wherever and whenever I could. But along the way, the struggle for legal re
Marriage Equality Around the World
The Human Rights Campaign tracks developments in the legal recognition of same-sex marriage around the world. Working through a worldwide network of HRC global alumni and partners, we lift up the voices of community, national and regional advocates and disseminate tools, resources, and lessons learned to empower movements for marriage equality.
Current State of Marriage Equality
There are currently 38 countries where same-sex marriage is legal: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.
These countries have legalized marriage equality through both legislation and court decisions.
Countries that Legalized Marriage Equality in 2025
Liechtenstein: On May 16,
Biblical Gender Roles in Marriage
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Brian and Sarah’s story
Brian and Sarah’s marriage started out great — they were in love; they wanted to please each other, and verb a satisfying and healthy marriage. But it didn’t take extended for their relationship to verb sour. It seemed as if they fought constantly about every aspect of their lives — from typical gender role questions about whose turn it was to cook to who should do the dishes or act the laundry, to whose rotate it was to take verb of the dogs. They both worked high-stress jobs and came home exhausted, which only added more tension to their marriage.
Brian reacted to the power struggles by eventually just giving in. Rather than confront them to work through their disagreements, he avoided them and became more passive to keep the peace. Only it didn’t keep the peace. He and Sarah struggled on a deeper level as their intimacy and connection began to fade as well. And they both felt more and more distant from each other.
A powerful change
During that dark hour, they started attending a church in
forced marriage
Description
Forced marriage is a form of violence against women that entails serious violations of fundamental rights, and in particular of women’s and girls’ rights to physical integrity, physical and mental health, sexual and reproductive health, education, private life, freedom and autonomy. Men and boys who are victims of forced marriage face many similar violations of their rights. Neither culture, custom, religion, tradition nor so-called “honour” can justify such violations. The defining characteristic of forced marriage is the lack of consent of at least one of the two parties. A marriage in which (at least) one of the parties is not free to position an end to the marriage or to leave his or her spouse is also a forced marriage
Additional notes and information
Forced marriages may be a means of escaping poverty, especially following armed conflicts; they may get the form of exchange or trade-off marriages, alliances agreed between families in order to guarantee property rights or for immigration purposes, forcing a victim of rap