A review of marriage celebrants has found many reciting the marriage vow incorrectly. The legalities mean this could technically render marriages void, explains Crikey intern Jasmin Pfefferkorn.
Relationships
How email destroys relationships
A reliance on digital technology is destroyed our ability to feel empathy, according to new research. And as empathy disintegrates, so does trust and close personal relationships.
Is the social media bubble about to burst?
The social mediasphere is a lot like the subprime mortgage market, warns Umair Haque: “social inflation” is cheapening the value of relationships, and it won’t be long until we’re all foreclosing on our FarmVille farms.
Why we’re not tying the knot
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.
Nookie in your nineties: when are you too old for sex?
At age 71, Jane Fonda declared her sex life ‘better than ever’. But admit it: plenty of people in their 60s actually find sex rather a bore. All those positions? With arthritis? No thanks.
Caroline Overington v. the priggish pontificators
It’s official. Journalists must conduct themselves like funeral directors. Or solicitors in Victorian novels. That’s the wash-up from the Caroline Overington case, writes Christian Kerr.
No protection for ceremonial and sorry business in the NT
Crikey has seen legal advice on how Brough’s new laws will negatively affect Aboriginal religious and ceremonial practices, particularly in relation to the closure of land and country outside of the townships now seized by the Commonwealth, writes Bob Gosford.
