Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

As Capone was under the age of 21, his parents had to consent to the marriage in writing.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

He succeeded upon the ineligibility of his older half-brother, Anthony Haden-Guest, who was born prior to the marriage of his parents.

Her parents ' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather, the Troubadour.

In 1563 Oxford ’ s older half-sister, Katherine, then Baroness Windsor, challenged the legitimacy of the marriage of Oxford ’ s parents in the Ecclesiastical court.

This was the second marriage for each of his parents, giving Garth four older half-siblings ( Jim, Jerry, Mike, and Betsy ).

All the gods and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis ( the eventual parents of Achilles ).

Arranged marriages became uncommon as young people were now allowed to choose their own marriage partners, subject to a veto by the parents.

Wells's parents had a turbulent marriage, due primarily to his mother being a Protestant and his father a freethinker.

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

In Norse mythology there are themes of brother-sister marriage, a prominent example being between Njörðr and his unnamed sister ( perhaps Nerthus ), parents of Freyja and Freyr.

It is recounted that Zeus held a banquet in celebration of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis ( parents of Achilles ).

Although his parents did not officially divorce until 1999, their marriage was in serious trouble throughout Walker's adolescence ; his father would often leave their Marin residence for extended periods to live in San Francisco with a male lover.

The marriage granted long-awaited financial independence to Weber, allowing him to finally leave his parents ' household.

Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.

Meanwhile, the marriage of Mary's parents was in jeopardy.

Henry insisted that Mary recognise him as head of the Church of England, repudiate papal authority, acknowledge that the marriage between her parents was unlawful, and accept her own illegitimacy.

Mary's first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid, and abolished Edward's religious laws.

The parents ' marriage fell apart in 1884.

Although many Catholics were loyal to Elizabeth, many also believed that, because Elizabeth was declared illegitimate after her parents ' marriage was annulled, Mary was the strongest legitimate claimant.

His parents ' marriage was brief and he was mostly raised by his grandparents, first in Chicago and later in Greenwich Village.

It is forbidden in Islam for parents or anyone else: to force, coerce, or trick either man or woman into a marriage that is contrary to the individual will of any one of the couple.

" This " good luck woman " should be someone who is blessed with a good marriage, healthy children and husband and living parents.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

even marriage and the family was seen as a contractual arrangement.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

It might be, indeed it had already proved to be a marriage without love, but it was marriage.

Dr. W. B. I. Martin officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

There were no depressingly serious cases: the ward doctor sometimes teamed up with the chaplain to serve as a marriage counselor -- sometimes the Navy sent people back to the States to preserve a marriage -- but mental health as a rule was very high.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

Mary was free to marry again, not knowing that the Sturch had secretly given her a divorce, thinking that death had dissolved her marriage.