Marriage Roles - Topics

Who really chooses in an arranged marriage: parents or the couple? Why marrying up still shapes who people choose How immigration changes the role expectations couples grew up with The second shift: cultural expectations of a wife's housework A sister taking over the household: rules and resentments Does bride price protect women or turn them into property? How religion keeps traditional marital role expectations alive Who is supposed to propose and does it still have to be the man When parents expect a daughter-in-law to take over the household Why the phrase head of household is disappearing from legal forms How 1950s advertising shaped the ideal picture of marital roles What a good provider is expected to mean for a husband Why the housewife ideal survives in some societies and not others How changing role expectations pushed the average marriage age up Complementarian teaching and the obedience clause in wedding vows Who decides where a couple lives after the wedding? What role expectations modern marriage advice puts on husbands How the husband-as-provider expectation has faded since the 1950s What society still expects of a wife but not of a husband Why stay-at-home fathers still face suspicion from strangers Why dowry spread where women gained rights to inherit land