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… sexual attraction and affection were the basis for many marriages, settlers looked for partners who would respond …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… struggle for the vote and for equal rights for women within marriage. Her understanding of the women's movement was … She also wrote of the need to 'raise the idea of marriage. The union is marriage, and the union is the source of the new race', and …
Type: Biography
… funding it could give only limited help. ‘The sanctity of marriage’ For much of the 20th century, marriage was widely seen as the ultimate goal for women, … restricted. Women’s lower status in society and within marriage continued. Family violence, which exploited and …
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Part of story: Family violence
… son, the ancestor of Ngāti Raukawa, after the plant. Their marriage bound together important Tainui and East Coast …
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… – the people of Ngāti Kahungunu – also formed strategic marriages, creating a network of alliances from Gisborne to …
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… work'. She apparently sought solace of a different kind in marriage to a Royal Navy lieutenant commander, Leslie … Stuart Murray, at Lyttelton on 3 January 1921. However, the marriage lasted little more than three years before the … 1920s that Helen's autobiography makes no reference to the marriage or its ending. It was Helen's second marriage, to …
Type: Biography
… are women, and about half are in the 20–34 age group. Marriage and divorce Marriage is less popular than it was. The number of marriages (measured against the number of people who are not …
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Part of story: Society
… men who supported them, were reacting to inequalities in marriage, education, paid employment and politics. Beliefs … during the 1860s and early 1870s, argued for equality in marriage, the education of girls, and the vote for women. … expanded in the 1870s and 1880s. Women’s rights within marriage, the sexual double standard (which allowed men to …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… punished women much more than men for having sex outside marriage. Men were seen as entitled to sexual pleasure, but …
Type: Story Front
… Assimilation strategies Māori had a well-defined system of marriage and family relationships, typically involving … it became compulsory for Māori to formally register their marriages. Attempts were also made through schools to impose … men marrying increased as girls born in New Zealand reached marriageable age. Women married later and the number of …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… there were many conflicts, peace was often settled through marriages. One famous love story is that of the beautiful …
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… elders, and following parental advice on decisions such as marriage. In Indian society, extended kinship networks … But it remains an important consideration in arranged marriages, and as a result suitable partners are often …
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Part of story: Indians
… was about 6.5. Women were expected to be celibate before marriage. Those who weren’t, and conceived, often married … was abstinence. But as conjugal rights were part of marriage, and rape was not a crime within marriage, married women had little power to say no to sex. …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… a puhi (a woman required to remain chaste for a diplomatic marriage), sex before marriage carried no stigma for Māori women. Sometimes sex … individual traders – soon became linked to Māori through marriages. Many early whalers, including Dicky Barrett, …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… Finding fault and punishing wrong-doing within marriage were central concepts in divorce. Over the 20th … and parliamentary debate was fierce when the terms of marriage were challenged or blame was left aside. Loosening … benefits became available to divorced women. Desertion Most marriages that broke down were handled by a magistrate’s …
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Part of story: Divorce and separation
… openly advocated a gay life; different authors promoted gay marriage, communes and non-monogamy. Venues where men could … younger people, were in favour of the change. The first marriages of same-sex couples took place in late August …
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Part of story: Gay men’s lives
… her husband solvent. David and Katerina formalised their marriage on 27 November 1894, and in the same year David … Te Rongokahira Asher was a much sought-after bride. A marriage was arranged between her and Charles Rere Parata, … regarded as momentous. It was one of the first important marriages between high-ranking families from the two main …
Type: Biography
… came into much greater contact with non-Māori and intermarriage increased accordingly. Officials argued that the rate of ‘miscegenation’ (a negative term for marriage between races) was an accurate measure of the … multi-cultural character. The children of mixed marriages were themselves more likely to intermarry. As the …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… that dates back to the middle ages. After 25 years of marriage a husband would present his wife with a silver … materials, which symbolised the growing value of the marriage relationship and the investment that the couple had … a reflection of the value society places on traditional marriage. However, with higher rates of marriage breakdown, …
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Part of story: Birthdays and wedding anniversaries