Anthony Afterwit — Franklin created this "gentleman" to provide a humorous look at matrimony and married life from a male point of view. Mr. Afterwit appeared in Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette.
Increasingly, worried European governments are crafting natalist policies to nudge couples to have more children, from offering better child care to monthly stipends keyed to family size.
Contrary to hypotheses, the newly married husbands with higher education achievement are more likely to choose intergenerational co-residence or even matrilocal residence.
Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions.
People in couples are too threatened by the independence of the single to invite them around very often, in case they're reminded of something they might have missed.
The best example I can think of is there's a story where this couple got married, couple years later they decided to get divorced, but the man knew that his ex-wife will win half of everything that he owned in court.