"During a recent day-time television talk show a young woman was informed that her husband had offered her best friend 500 dollars to have sex with him. Needless to say, the young woman (the wife) became very angry and she (along with the talk-show host and most of the audience present) viewed this act as an egregious betrayal"--
In this insightful study, Donald Asci shows how the Catholic concept of sexuality and sexual intercourse articulates the ethical norms by which these profound realities are preserved.
This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of 'family'.
Finally, What Is Marriage? decisively answers common objections: that the historic view is rooted in bigotry, like laws forbidding interracial marriage; that it is callous to people’s needs; that it can’t show the harm of recognizing ...
Until just yesterday, no society--monogamous or polygamous—had defined marriage as anything other than a male-female union. With clear and cogent arguments, What Is Marriage? explains the rational basis of this historic consensus.
But he , by no means , asserts that conjugal union finds no place there . We well know from the evidence of some heavenly unions upon the earth , unions in which there is such perfect sympathy that no legal bond were needed to keep them ...
These conjugal union types include visiting unions in which there is no common residence, common-law or consensual unions in ... It has been shown that in many cases these unions follow a cyclical pattern linked with increasing age, ...
The inextricable interrelation of these meanings is especially obvious in the conjugal act, since the very embrace that crowns the union between the spouses is the act by which they betoken their shared readiness to welcome new life ...