Nearly 60 percent of couples in China’s central city of Wuhan called off their planned divorces after being forced to rethink their separations during a new, state-mandated “cooling off” period, the Chinese state-run Global Times claimed on Thursday.
The number of marriages in South Korea plummeted to an all-time low in 2020 owing to changing attitudes toward marriage among younger generations and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.
ROME — The European Parliament (EP) has attacked Poland over its “Regional Charters of Family Rights,” asserting that they represent “discrimination and attacks against the LGBTIQ community.”
A Chinese lawmaker proposed during the annual “Two Sessions” this weekend that the Communist Party implement a mandatory college course on dating, marriage, and parenting.
Norway saw a 19% drop in marriages in 2020 compared to the previous year, which had already seen the lowest figure since 1927.
A Chinese lawmaker is preparing to introduce a bill at the opening of this week’s “Two Sessions,” where the Communist Party meets to draft and pass laws, requiring couples to take government-run marriage “training” classes before their weddings.
The director of a Chinese social development think tank recently proposed unmarried Chinese women over the age of 27 — known as “leftover” women or sheng nu in China — should embrace the surplus of single men in rural China to find a husband, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday.
A Texas couple married for more than 60 years defeated the coronavirus together — all while sharing the same hospital bedroom.
A 36-year-old French woman claims that her abusive migrant husband used her in an attempt to obtain French citizenship so he could abandon her and her children and bring his African wife and family to France.
The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has announced the kickoff of National Marriage Week Sunday in “defense of marriage as a lifelong union of one man and one woman.”
Pope Francis has proclaimed 2021 as a year dedicated to the family, urging greater study of the “ideal of conjugal and family love.”
A pregnant woman detained in north India’s Uttar Pradesh last week under the state’s “love jihad” law said Tuesday she received injections from authorities while in detention that she believes induced a miscarriage.
Police in the northern Indian town of Kushinagar halted a marriage ceremony between two Muslims last week and arrested the groom after local residents reported the union to authorities, falsely claiming that the bride was once Hindu, Indian news site The Wire reported on Sunday.
Police in northern India have arrested ten men for allegedly forcing women to change their religion after marriage, officials in Uttar Pradesh state said Monday.
India’s most populous state passed a law on Tuesday establishing a prison term of up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religions.
President Donald Trump spiked his poll ratings among married women to a 13-point advantage — but Joe Biden won the votes of unmarried women by 25 points.
Statistics released by the Greek government show that the country’s birthrate declined by 3.1 per cent in 2019 as deaths increased by 3.9 per cent.
Family law firms are predicting a “post-lockdown divorce boom”, as a report from a leading charity has claimed that the Chinese coronavirus and the ensuing lockdowns have caused “enormous strain” on relationships.
Michelle Obama discussed her marriage to former President Barack Obama and offered advice to younger couples during a recent episode of The Michelle Obama Podcast, explaining that she has, at times, wanted to “push Barack out of the window.”
Polish president Andrzej Duda has seen off a challenge from the globalist Mayor of Warsaw in a tight presidential race.
Two and a half months of forced lockdown has pushed many married couples into crisis, Italian media report, and divorce filings have seen a whopping 30 percent increase since the outbreak began.
A Canadian woman and a California man who met the day before the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting escaped the shooting together and have since fallen in love and tied the knot.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced over the weekend that he will allow citizens of the state to receive marriage licenses remotely from their own homes during the Chinese virus pandemic — and even be married by video conference.
While the rate has dropped by 45 per cent since 1972 and halved since 1940, the average age for marriage has now reached a record high.
The Church of England is cutting down weddings to the bare legal minimum, following the UK government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds have revealed they are now engaged and expecting a baby in the summer.
A pair of high school sweethearts recently reconnected in Columbus, Ohio, and tied the knot after 63 years apart.
The fake news media have literally spent billions of dollars to “other” Trump, to turn him into a “mistake that must be corrected,” into a virus infecting the system… They have failed.
An Ohio couple who had stayed married for more than 64 years died within five hours of each other on Christmas Eve, holding hands as each took their final breath.
Christmas is a time for tradition – midnight mass, giving gifts… and being encouraged to cheat on your husband by a national newspaper.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill with overwhelming bipartisan support in order to keep any Trump-appointed judges from performing marriages.
A Michigan couple who spent 70 years of their lives together left the world at the same time too, by dying 20 minutes apart in hospice care.
John and Charlotte Henderson will celebrate their eight-decade partnership just before Christmas, on December 22.
A couple who lived together and were married for 68 years died 33 hours apart from each other— and will be laid to rest together on Tuesday.
Bishop Renato Marangoni of the northern Italian diocese of Belluno-Feltre has apologized to remarried Catholics, urging them to come forward and receive the Eucharist.
A couple in Austin, Texas, recently broke the Guinness World Record as the “Oldest Married Couple.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) quietly deleted a six-year-old Father’s Day message from her social media profiles Tuesday morning, tacitly acknowledging critics who highlighted it Monday night to question her marital history.
Marriage rates continue to fall, with just half of people in England and Wales being married, according to statistics released by the ONS.
Fewer women get married when fewer men earn a decent salary in an unstable economy, says a study from Cornell University.
The number of single women in the workforce is on the rise, which is having a big effect on the economy, according to research. study by investment bank Morgan Stanley showed that by 2030, almost half — 45 percent — of women between 25 and 44 in the United States will be single — the largest share in history.
