

“The group that is the most likely to have a challenge are single parents with kids,” he added. But in general, people believe that marriages are doing well.”Ī potential stress factor for families this year will be the end of COVID-19-related relief payments that, under the Trump and Biden administrations, helped keep many families out of a financial crisis, Mr. The survey’s summary stated, “There is continuing stability in Americans’ evaluations of marriage, both their own and the institution at large.”Īt the same time, the report noted, “there is a hint that people are less likely to say that their own marriage has gotten stronger during COVID, perhaps because of the stress of the period.

Karpowitz declared, “I think we’re seeing a lot of numerous signs that families are valuable institutions in modern society, and they continue to be.” Marriage and the health of marriages remained a concern during the pandemic year, the survey found. “I don’t quite know how you tell a story about progress without saying that, in the past, things were worse than they are today,” Mr. Recent public debates have centered on the critical race theory and the controversial 1619 Project, which postulates that slavery should be the primary lens through which to examine American history. He said that while surveyed members of both parties agreed “there’s been progress in racial equality over time,” disagreements have arisen over curricula in schools. And whether or not schools should spend more time on issues of race, but also the kinds of lessons that schools teach about race.” “They have different preferences for how schools handle those challenges. His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more-the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.“Democrats and Republicans see different worlds when it comes to the racial challenges facing this country,” Mr. (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) In every direction upon these moors there were traces of some vanished race which had passed utterly away, and left as its sole record strange monuments of stone, irregular mounds which contained the burned ashes of the dead, and curious earthworks which hinted at prehistoric strife. He kept François busy, for the dog-driver was in constant apprehension of the life-and-death struggle between the two which he knew must take place sooner or later and on more than one night the sounds of quarrelling and strife among the other dogs turned him out of his sleeping robe, fearful that Buck and Spitz were at it. These days, with so many planets opposite your sign, there is an indication of either perfect agreement or maddening strife.

That tiny men should live and breathe and work, and drive so frail a contrivance of wood and cloth through so tremendous an elemental strife. It was only the tame that the gods protected, and between the tame deadly strife was not permitted. It is in scenes of strife and danger-where courage is proved, and energy exercised, and fortitude tasked-that he will speak and move, the leader and superior. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) We knew your father well, and would fain help his son, though we have small cause to love your brother the Socman, who is forever stirring up strife in the county. (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?

The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly.
