Brown would like to see their daughter settled down, get married, and have kids.

Getting married is 50, pregnancy 40, moving house 20, Christmas 12, etc.

He bought it when he married mum.

Many societies throughout history and around the world today have cultivated strong pressures to stay married.

What will the current economic crisis eventually do to some married couples?

The effect was first noted in 1858 by William Farr, who wrote that widows and widowers (鳏夫) were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers.

Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart

Likewise, a married man who smokes more than a pack a day is likely to live as long as a divorced man who doesn't smoke.

the married are happier than the unmarried

refers to the disadvantages of being married.

the disadvantages of being married

At 33 she married Edward Green, a multi-millionaire, and had two children, Ned and Sylvia.

If we ask Americans why they eat with knives and forks, or why their men wear pants instead of skirts, or why they may be married to only one person at a time, we are likely to get similar and very uninformative answers: Because it's right.

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

Among college graduates, in 2014 46% were married or living with a partner, and only 19% were living with their parents.

I do want to get married, but she thinks we need to wait until we've launched our careers.

I mean isn't it time for you to think about getting married?

In 1962, 50% of Americans were married by age 21.

In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80.

Irene and Frederic soon fell in love and got married on October 29, 1926.

Married women diagnosed with a serious health condition may find themselves struggling with the impact of their disease while also experiencing the stress of divorce.

Monaco became familiar to Americans when its ruler, Prince Rainier married the American actress Grace Kelly.

She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies and traveling.

Take, for instance, the age at which people make commitments such as buying a house, getting married, having children, or starting a career.

The holiday bonus was designed to encourage young people to delay getting married in line with China's one-child policy.

Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties.

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.

Today's farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled rather than migrating and more likely to be married than single.

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi