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Are women delaying marriage for financial or career reasons? Or does walking down the aisle make you less successful in the boardroom? They’re two big questions facing women.

Divorce rates amongst college-educated urban Americans are the lowest they’ve been for 30 years, with the concept of divorce reverting to the pre-1970s “failure” mentality, says Pamela Paul.

Amongst all the incriminating WikiLeaks embassy cable news lies a a fascinating tale of a rural Russian wedding, which included a “perpetually tipsy” Olympic wrestler named Vakha and a performance by Benya the Accordion King.

If there is a situation worse than being denied the right to marry the person of your choice because you are the same gender, then being forced into marriage against your will would have to be it, writes Shakira Hussein.

They do things differently in Kyrgyzstan. Like courting, for instance, which is seeing a rise in bride kidnapping. As Iva Skoch writes, what was once seen as a custom, is now being recognised as a destructive crime.

What happened to feminism? We spent years fighting against institutions like marriage, only to turn around and find our daughters donning meringue dresses and wanting dad to give them away, writes an anonymous mother of the bride.

It’s total bull that recent US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan gets referred to by the White House as “unmarried” rather than “single”. Why make her sound depressing? asks Maureen Dowd.

Ann Bauer explains how she and her husband escaped from a religious marriage retreat, full of couples who hated each other and wedding night re-creations.

Yes, The Pill — 50 years old this week — gave women the ability to control their fertility. But by encouraging sex without consequences it has destroyed the institution of marriage, writes “aging sex symbol” Raquel Welch.

Over half of girls in Yemen are married off by their fathers before they’re 18, usually to men at least a decade older than them, with girls as young as 10 becoming mothers — and that’s if they’re lucky enough to survive the pregnancy.

Young people aren’t getting married because they are too angsty, scared of divorce, immature and have good birth control. Instead, a new relationship trend has emerged between ‘dating’ and ”til death do us part’, writes Hannah Seligson.

A constitutional amendment in Texas designed to ban gay marriages may have inadvertently banned all marriages in the state, according to a lawyer and Democratic attorney general candidate.

Barack and Michelle Obama are known for having one of strongest and most sickly sweet marriages in US political history. Just think of their date nights! NY Times Magazine is running a 10 page indepth feature on the Obamas’ marriage. Go on, you know you want to.

We’re always hanging on for the next big breakthrough in health: a cure for cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia… But the next big breakthrough has already come, says Melissa Sweet: it’s education.

Decriminalising polygamy and removing its social social stigma will further guarantee the rights of women, argues Keysar Tradin response to Shakira Hussein’s piece in yesterday’s Crikey.

I am against gay marriage. I’m against straight marriage. I’m against marriage full stop. Why are we hanging on to this relic of an anachronistic system (which still reeks of misogyny and bigotry)? asks Catherine Deveny today.

There’s this new spate of advice talking about how lying is bad for a relationship. What bollocks, says Raina Kelley.

Divorce doesn’t just make your poorer. People who are divorced or widowed are 20% more likely to suffer issues like cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

Cristina Nehring, author of the ambitious polemic A Vindication of Love thinks marriage has become dull, a lenonine passion reduced to “a yawning, chubby house cat”, writes Meghan O’Rourke.

Nehring yearns for a revival of a messier ardor.

Couples who really shouldn’t hyphenate their last names.