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One Wife – Free to Good Home

Let’s take a walk back in history for a bit and inject a little levity into our Monday morning. Ready for it? Here we go. Until the early 1900s, wife selling was actually a thing husbands in Britain were able to do. That’s right – wife selling. Husbands were able to sell their wives to the highest bidder. Now before you get bent, let’s explore this little nugget of history. The golden age of wife selling lasted from about 1780 to 1850. There were about 300 wives sold during this period and those are the ones that were listed in … Continue reading →

A History of Marriage & Family

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Yesterday I posted a discussion and my opinions on the Senate Vote and Marriage. I got a lot of responses to the blog that were thoughtful and filled with passionate conviction. Truth be told, subjects like marriage, family and more are deeply personal and they elicit from even the most uninterested I the subject a passionate viewpoint. The Demise of Family Values Interestingly enough, the worry about the changing family and the demise of the family unit is hardly a new concern. While challenges such as gay marriage may not have confronted American families in the late 1800s, the worries … Continue reading →