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It’s time to get married

Suzanne A. Kim (Rutgers): The Neutered Parent. Scott Thomas Fitzgibbon (Boston College): Parent, Child, Husband, Wife: When Recognition Fails, Tragedy Ensues. From Amsterdam Law Forum, a special issue on Legal Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Equality, including Alli Leigh Jernow (ICJ): Morality Tales in Comparative Jurisprudence: What the Law Says About Sex; Lynn Wardle (BYU): The Institution of Marriage and Other Domestic Relations; and Arthur S. Leonard (NYLS): The Miraculous Year 2010 in United States' Gay Rights Law: Anomaly or Tipping Point? From The Advocate, we often protest when homophobes insist that same sex marriage will change marriage for straight people too, but in some ways, they’re right — here’s how gay relationships will change the institution, but for the better. The morning after marriage: Should the gay community really be saying “I do”? In praise of promiscuity: As gay marriage becomes the norm, oldsters ask, when did gay life morph into a Jane Austen novel? With marriage expanding in once unimaginable ways, what might the next stage in this evolution be? A review of Why Do Married Men Cheat with Unattractive Women? by Emunah La-Paz. An interview with Frank Zaccari, author of When the Wife Cheats. In real life, a broken marriage is still a painful and damaging ordeal — so how did popular culture go from “Kramer vs. Kramer” to a sitcom called “Happily Divorced”? Here are 5 ways you know it's time to get married. Where does the idea of marriage — monogamous marriage specifically — come from? Anthropologist Laura Fortunato has some answers. Does absence actually make the heart grow fonder? A new book suggests that getting away from each other for prolonged periods of time is good for the health of your marriage. How can we get men to do more at home?