· The tensions are built into the social fabric: Conflicting loyalties, allegiances mark the fault lines · Failure to conceive draws attention to the major sourceof tension within society and an opportunity to work through the social structural tensions Changing Face of Relationships? · Childlessness or "infertility" a `norm violation'? · Normative Motherhood, Prescriptive Fatherhood? · Is heteronormative marriage on the decline? · Conjugal bond weakening and Cohabitation of the rise? Do men and women react differently to childlessness? · "Status-passage" · Threat to a couple's shared re a l i t i e s n e c e s s i t a t i n g construction of new shared realities · But, His & Her realities can be markedly different
children: for it being, in our author's account, a right acquired by begetting to rule over those he had begotten, it was not a power possible to be inherited, because the right being consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal, made that power so too, and impossible to be inherited: for paternal power, being a natural right rising only from the relation of father and son, is as impossible to be inherited as the relation itself; and a man may pretend as well to inherit the conjugal power the husband, whose heir he is, had over his wife, as he can to inherit the paternal power of a father over his children: for the power of the husband being founded on contract, and the power of the father on begetting, he may as well inherit the power obtained by the conjugal contract, which was only personal, as he may the power obtained by begetting, which could reach no farther than the person of the begetter, unless begetting can be a title to power in him that does not beget
16-17 sajandil eksisteerisid kahesugused iluideaalid; 1) halb, õel, paha, patule ahvatleja 2) tubli kodukana, hea naine, kel oli õigus oma meest rahuldada. 1684 tõlgiti Aristotelese "Õpetaja väärtus", mis sisaldas seksuaalsust puudutavat infot, käsitledes nii psüühilist kui seksuaalset aspekti. Kuni 17. sajandini mõjutas inimesi religioosne mõttelaad. Tolleaegset mõttelaadi mõjutas ka N. Venette "Tableau de l´amour conjugal" 1698 kirjeldatakse seksuaalanatoomiat, vahekorda jms suhteliselt õigesti; öeldakse, et seks on loomulik osa inimese elust, räägitakse seksuaalvahekorra mõjust inimese psüühikale ja füüsilsele. Kirjeldatakse ka rasedust ja sünnitust. Euroopas on sel ajal ideaaliks suur pere, palju lapsi. 18. sajandil hakkab esimest korda populaarseks muutuma idee väiksest perekonnast, võetakse kasutusele ja
enjoying herself as much as possible--advice which there was every reason to believe would be well attended to; and in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard. Chapter 42 Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort. Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown. But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own
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