A modern married couple spends only a few minutes a day fully together. This is due to the increase in working hours, the appearance of children, television, the Internet, distraction by hobbies, employment with household and family responsibilities.
The English word "marriage" comes from the Latin word "mas", meaning "guy" or "male". Earliest known forms of use given word in English language date back to the 13th century.
More than 75% of people who marry for the first time end up getting divorced.
The Oneida Colony, established in New York in 1848, advocated "complex" or group marriage, in which every woman was married to every man. They also practiced "scientific supervision" where the parents-to-be were supervised by a committee of physical and mental health.
Traditionally, bridesmaids are expected to wear matching dresses to confuse the groom's rivals, evil spirits, and burglars.
Marriage of spouses younger than 25 significantly increases the risk of divorce. In addition, the risk is higher when a woman is much older than a man, although this is not a very influential factor.
At an Italian wedding, glass or mirror breaking is a common occurrence. It is believed that the number of fragments will be equal to the number of happy years that the couple will live together.
The word "husband" (husband) comes from the Old Norse "husbondi" or "master of the house" (literally, hus, "house" + bondi = "master of the house, resident").
Some scholars have traced the "fate" of the word "bride" (bride) to the proto-Indo-European root "bru", which means "cook, boil the broth."
The term "groom" (groom) comes from the old English word"guma" which means "man".
The level of education of people influences the age at which they marry. In states with a higher number of adults with higher education couples marry later. The opposite trend is observed in countries with a low level of education of the population.
There is a 20% chance that a first marriage will end in divorce within the first 5 years. With cohabitation, this figure reaches 50%.
The Code of Hammurabi (circa 1790 BC) includes ancient Babylonian scriptures and marriage laws. These early laws defined marriage as a contract that served to protect the feminine side and at the same time limit it. Under the Code, a man had every right to divorce his wife if she was unable to have children, or she was a "vagrant" who humiliated her husband in front of the public and neglected her home. In addition, the wife must "drown herself" in the river or commit suicide if she cheated on her husband.
People who lose their marriage during a serious illness live much less than those who are widowed, have a happy family, or have never been married at all.
In ancient Greece, Solon (638-538 BC) made marriage obligatory, and in Athens, under Pericles (495-429 BC), bachelors were excluded from certain government positions if they did not have a wife and children. In Sparta, single and childless people received contempt from society. In ancient Rome (63 BC), laws were quickly passed that forced everyone to marry and punished those who remained single.
The marriage ceremony usually ends with a kiss, because in ancient Rome, a kiss had a legal connection with the completion of contracts, which meant entry into legal force.
The stress associated with divorce affects the body's immune system and its ability to resist disease.
For most of history, marriage was not necessarily based on mutual love. Sometimes couples came together for the mutual acquisition of property or the creation of a joint business. And even now such a situation is not uncommon.
A white man from New Orleans in the late nineteenth century received a blood transfusion from a black woman he loved in an attempt to overcome laws against discrimination. He claimed that he also became the same as her and could marry. How this story ended is unknown.
Compared to single people, married people, on average, accumulate four times more money and assets. Those who divorced have 77% less valuable property than those who are single.
Married older people are more likely to stay healthy if they exercise, stop smoking, eat right, and have regular health check-ups.
About 60% of married adults have at least one job.
The first written mention of same-sex marriage comes from ancient rome. While Christianity was being formed as the official religion, these ceremonies took place without much discussion. In 1989, Denmark became the first nation after Christianity to legally recognize same-sex marriage.
Words make up only 7% of our communication with anyone, including between spouses. Tone of voice makes up 38%, and body language is responsible for the rest (55%) of the relationship in a married couple.
Women who talk about a fair division of domestic labor tend to have happier marriages than women who are under the stress of dissatisfaction with their husbands not doing their homework.
The researchers found a huge decline in satisfaction in personal relationships after 4 years of marriage, and a significant decrease by the age of seven or eight. In fact, half of all divorces happen in the first seven years of marriage.
Family people are twice as likely to go to church.
Married couples with children divorce much less frequently than those without children.
The number of cohabiting men and women aged 65 and over doubled between 1990 and 2000.
15 years of research has shown that elevated level a person's happiness before marriage is the guarantor of happiness in family life.
I think each of us at least once called his family the Addams family. Indeed, in every family, unique ones are born who can drive its other members to madness. But believe me, there are truly unique families in the world that are difficult to compete with in originality.
Unique albinos
In Brazil, in the state of Pernambuco, a truly unusual family lives. The father and mother are very ordinary Brazilians, but of their five children, three were born with completely white skin. This is simply a unique case, because even the theoretical possibility of the birth of an albino in a Brazilian family is one in seventeen thousand cases.Albino children in a small town are not to be envied. All their lives they hear ridicule, neighbors forbid their children to play with them, and their mother was once almost arrested on suspicion of kidnapping white children.
White Indians
Another unique albino family lives in India. Unlike their Brazilian "colleagues", where some members of the family are albinos, in the Indian family all its members have white skin and hair. All 10 family members, and even grandchildren, are 100% albinos. The Pullan family takes pride in their skin color and uniqueness, although in the hot climate of India this gives them a lot of trouble.
Risking life to have children
The American Stacey Herald has a seemingly "standard" American family - a husband and three children. But Stacey gave birth to all the children, risking her life, because her height is just over 70 centimeters, and Stacey is considered the shortest mother in the world.Stacy suffers from a rare disease called osteogenesis, which causes brittle bones and underdeveloped lungs. The difference with the height of Stacy's husband becomes more than a meter. Each pregnancy was a risk to her life, because newborn children were almost half the height of their mother, and small sizes internal organs Stacy could simply not withstand the stress of bearing children. But this is not the worst. Two out of three children inherited their mother's disease. But, despite this, the parents are not going to stop at replenishment in the family. Opinions about such a decision, of course, differ - is it worth giving life to children, knowing that they will be sick all their lives? These parents probably think they can handle it.
For 20 years, not a single girl
Another unique family lives in the USA. All its members have a standard height, weight and white skin color. But for more than 20 years of the appearance of children in this family, only boys are born. Jay and Kaitheri Schwandt never found out the gender of their unborn child. Mom admits that she can’t even imagine what her reaction would be if a girl was born.In 2015, their family was replenished with the thirteenth son. Mom considers the number "thirteen" significant. She herself was the thirteenth child in the family, and her youngest son was born on the 13th and became the 13th child. Do parents want to try their luck and have another baby? Until they said yes, but they didn't say no either.
hairy beauties
Another unusual family lives in India, which consists of seven women - a mother and her six daughters. The father of the family, whom the mother married at the age of 12, died. What is special about these women? Three out of six daughters suffer from the rare disease hypertrichosis - excessive hairiness. Mother Anita Samary Rouse is sure that the girls inherited the “werewolf gene” from their father, whom she married “under pain of death.”But not everything is so sad. After the family was shown on TV, the girls were helped to undergo laser hair removal, after which they noticeably prettier.
Is wholesale cheaper?
Another family lives in the USA, known to the whole world thanks to its mother Nadia Suleiman. Being single, she brings up 14 children, 8 of whom were born on the same day. "Eight" was born when the woman already had six children. Multiple pregnancy came as a result of artificial insemination, which she resorted to earlier. Nadia admits that she did not expect that there would be so many children.The life of Nadia Suleiman causes a lot of controversy in society. After all, she is unemployed, lives on social benefits and with money from talk shows, where she is constantly invited. Once she admitted that she wanted to have many children in order to imitate her idol Angelina Jolie, because Nadia even did plastic surgery to look like a star. And she is also accused of filming pornographic videos. Whatever it was, but Nadia claims that she is a happy mother and loves her children.
reluctant twins
American married couple Lizi and Adriana Shepard got married in 1994. They dreamed of children, but pregnancy did not occur. Then the couple decided to do IVF. Of the 14 embryos, they froze 12 and used 2. They have wonderful twin girls.A few years later, they wanted another child. The couple went to the same clinic and used one of the frozen embryos. When their third daughter was born, Lizi and Adriana were speechless - the girl was just a copy of her older sisters. It turns out that the twins were born with a difference of 11 years! I wonder if the youngest daughter will only look like her older sisters, or will she take on their character as well?
Polygamy is not a hindrance to a family
The USA is really rich in non-standard families, probably because people are not afraid to live the way they want and do not adapt to other people's rules. In this family, everyone has a normal height and weight, and their children were born at term. What makes them different? Difficult family relationships. This family consists of 8 adults and 3 children. Who are they related to each other? To be honest, it's hard to figure it out.Siera and Martin have been married for 9 years and have two daughters. Molly and David have been married for 15 years and have a daughter. These couples are in a polyamorous relationship with each other, while also having other lovers.
All members of this union are familiar with each other, have excellent relations with them. Are they jealous of their lawful halves? They make sure they don't. They can meet other people openly without lying or feeling guilty about it. The spouses assure that in such a tandem their marriages have become even stronger, and love has only increased.
Their children do not lack love. If one of their parents goes on a "vacation", the other must stay at home. This is the golden rule. By the way, children are familiar with the partners of their parents, but for children they are “friends” of mom and dad. If parents have unforeseen situations at work, they ask lovers to sit with their children. All is well and everyone is happy! Are these people doing the right thing? I don't know, but I have no right to judge them.
Of course, this article does not contain all the amazing families living in the world. But if you know of any, you can add to this list.
Photos are the connecting thread of times. No exception - and the life of the first person of the state. Pictures from the family archive of the Putin couple will tell their story better than words.
third son
Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 and became the third child in the family of Maria and Vladimir Putin. He had two older brothers, both of whom died before he was born. First-born Albert died of whooping cough before the war. Two-year-old Viktor during the years of the blockade was taken from his family to an orphanage, where children were collected for further evacuation to the rear. The boy contracted diphtheria and died. They buried him in a mass grave at the Piskarevsky cemetery, without even informing the family about it. Maria Ivanovna Putina was already over forty when she decided to give birth to her third child. The boy was born healthy and strong, weighed 3.2 kilograms.Where did Putin's childhood go?
Baskov lane, house 12 - an inconspicuous house with a yard-well. The Putins occupied a 20-meter room in a communal apartment on the 4th floor. In the house, dilapidated due to the bombings, there was no hot water and heating. They heated the stove, went to the Nekrasov baths to wash. Mice scurried around the house, and the "accuracy" of the neighbors was unimaginable - everyone knew everything about each other. The family did not live well, the main earner was his father, who worked as a mechanic at a car building plant. But there was a telephone in the room - a rarity in those days. 
Vladimir Vladimirovich compared his backyard childhood with the book "Generals of the sand pits": the street was divided between warring groups of children. Fights, a common occurrence, tempered Volodya's character - despite his slender complexion, he always went into battle first.
School years
In his youth, Vladimir Vladimirovich did not differ in exemplary behavior. He graduated from the 4th grade with deuces in drawing and singing. The pugnacious boy was not accepted as a pioneer until the 6th grade. Later, for a bet, he hung on outstretched arms on the balcony of the fifth floor of the school, and at the graduation of the "eight-year-old" he bet that he would eat 20 cakes in one sitting; I gave up on the sixteenth, but still got a standing ovation from my classmates: “Hurrah, Putya!” (from the memoirs of the class teacher Vera Gurevich). 
And here is what his classmate Alexander Nikolaev recalls: “ In his school years, Putin once hung on a bet on the balcony of the fifth floor of the school, fought best of all and once stood up for the honor of girls - he fought with a physical education teacher».
A chidhood dream
Vova and his yard friend Seryozha Bogdanov were reading "Tom Sawyer". The novel sowed a passion for adventure in their hearts: they floated on rafts through flooded basements (once Vladimir found an unexploded shell in the basement, brought it to the police and proudly slammed it on the table, for which he received it from his father), spent the night in the forest. Even then, Vova dreamed of a career as a scout and deliberately put himself to the test - he tempered his character. He jumped naked into a snowdrift, swam on an ice floe. stripped to panties. 
Having matured, Vladimir watched the film “Shield and Sword” about military intelligence officers and did not cut his bangs for a long time, because with it he looked like one of the heroes. And once, as Putin’s school friend Viktor Borisenko claimed, he came to the KGB building and asked the guard at the entrance: “How can I get a job with you?” The guard replied: "It's good to study," and after that Vova took up his mind.
Intelligence work
In 1970, after graduating from special school No. 281 with a chemical bias, Volodya entered the law faculty of the Leningrad State University. Once the dean's office received a request from the KGB for the five best students. Putin was also on the provided list of names. He was in good standing with his superiors, despite the frequent use of his office phone for personal purposes: he had “operational cover documents”, as a promising employee he was sent to special German language courses, which was allowed only to the elite. He worked under the fictitious name "Platov". 
How Putin met his wife
Before her marriage, Lyudmila Putina (the editorial office of uznayvse.ru notes that the maiden name of Lyudmila Putina is Shkrebneva) worked as a flight attendant on domestic flights. On March 7, 1980, she and her friend flew to Leningrad for three days and first of all went to the theater, to the performance of Arkady Raikin. There, through a mutual friend, the future spouses met. 
Putin's wedding
The couple officially registered their relationship in 1983. The editors of the site notes that already being married, Lyudmila Putina graduated from the Leningrad State University, having received a diploma in the specialty of a philologist-novelist.
Birth of Vladimir Putin's daughters
In 1985, Vladimir Putin received distribution in the GDR. Lyudmila, together with her little daughter Maria, born in the same year, followed him. 
In 1986, in Dresden, the second daughter, Katerina, was born to a married couple. In 1990, the family returned to Leningrad, where fate pushed Putin and Anatoly Sobchak together.
Career and family
Six years later, the family moved to Moscow. At the same time, Vladimir Putin began his career in government. 
In less than three years, the head of the family has risen from Deputy Presidential Affairs Manager to Secretary of the Security Council. In 2000, Vladimir Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation.
The first lady of the country, Lyudmila Putina, rarely appeared in public, although her range of interests and hobbies was quite wide - art, skiing, tennis. In addition, Lyudmila Putina, who has an excellent command of several foreign languages, became the initiator of the creation of the Center for the Development of the Russian Language.
The reason the spouses called the constant employment of Vladimir Putin political and social activities and the rejection of this lifestyle by Lyudmila Putina. Let's remember the stages of this beautiful love.
Putin's personal life after the divorce
The Putins call their divorce civilized and continue to communicate normally even after the official dissolution of the marriage. At the beginning of 2016, information appeared in the press that Lyudmila Putina remarried and changed her last name, but there were no official comments about this. But the personal life of the president remains a mystery behind seven seals. According to the official version, his heart is free. 
The editors of the site notes that these photographs show how Vladimir Putin himself and his ex-wife Lyudmila changed. We also invite you to take a look at how Russian politics have changed since the early 90s.
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A modern married couple spends only a few minutes a day fully together. This is due to the increase in working hours, the appearance of children, television, the Internet, distraction by hobbies, employment with household and family responsibilities.
The English word "marriage" comes from the Latin word "mas", meaning "guy" or "male". The earliest known uses of the word in English date back to the 13th century.
More than 75% of people who marry for the first time end up getting divorced.
The Oneida Colony, established in New York in 1848, advocated "complex" or group marriage, in which every woman was married to every man. They also practiced "scientific supervision" where the parents-to-be were supervised by a committee of physical and mental health.
Traditionally, bridesmaids are expected to wear matching dresses to confuse the groom's rivals, evil spirits, and burglars.
Marriage of spouses younger than 25 significantly increases the risk of divorce. In addition, the risk is higher when a woman is much older than a man, although this is not a very influential factor.
At an Italian wedding, glass or mirror breaking is a common occurrence. It is believed that the number of fragments will be equal to the number of happy years that the couple will live together.
The word "husband" (husband) comes from the Old Norse "husbondi" or "master of the house" (literally, hus, "house" + bondi = "master of the house, resident").
Some scholars have traced the "fate" of the word "bride" (bride) to the proto-Indo-European root "bru", which means "cook, boil the broth."
The term "groom" (groom) comes from the old English word "guma", which means "man".
The level of education of people influences the age at which they marry. In states with higher numbers of college-educated adults, couples marry later. The opposite trend is observed in countries with a low level of education of the population.
There is a 20% chance that a first marriage will end in divorce within the first 5 years. With cohabitation, this figure reaches 50%.
The Code of Hammurabi (circa 1790 BC) includes ancient Babylonian scriptures and marriage laws. These early laws defined marriage as a contract that served to protect the feminine side and at the same time limit it. Under the Code, a man had every right to divorce his wife if she was unable to have children, or she was a "vagrant" who humiliated her husband in front of the public and neglected her home. In addition, the wife must "drown herself" in the river or commit suicide if she cheated on her husband.
People who lose their marriage during a serious illness live much less than those who are widowed, have a happy family, or have never been married at all.
In ancient Greece, Solon (638-538 BC) made marriage obligatory, and in Athens, under Pericles (495-429 BC), bachelors were excluded from certain government positions if they did not have a wife and children. In Sparta, single and childless people received contempt from society. In ancient Rome (63 BC), laws were quickly passed that forced everyone to marry and punished those who remained single.
The marriage ceremony usually ends with a kiss, because in ancient Rome, a kiss had a legal connection with the completion of contracts, which meant entry into legal force.
The stress associated with divorce affects the body's immune system and its ability to resist disease.
For most of history, marriage was not necessarily based on mutual love. Sometimes couples came together for the mutual acquisition of property or the creation of a joint business. And even now such a situation is not uncommon.
A white man from New Orleans in the late nineteenth century received a blood transfusion from a black woman he loved in an attempt to overcome laws against discrimination. He claimed that he also became the same as her and could marry. How this story ended is unknown.
Compared to single people, married people, on average, accumulate four times more money and assets. Those who divorced have 77% less valuable property than those who are single.
Married older people are more likely to stay healthy if they exercise, stop smoking, eat right, and have regular health check-ups.
About 60% of married adults have at least one job.
The first written mention of same-sex marriage comes from ancient Rome. While Christianity was being formed as the official religion, these ceremonies took place without much discussion. In 1989, Denmark became the first nation after Christianity to legally recognize same-sex marriage.
Words make up only 7% of our communication with anyone, including between spouses. Tone of voice makes up 38%, and body language is responsible for the rest (55%) of the relationship in a married couple.
Women who talk about a fair division of domestic labor tend to have happier marriages than women who are under the stress of dissatisfaction with their husbands not doing their homework.
The researchers found a huge decline in relationship satisfaction after 4 years of marriage, and a significant decline by age 7 to 8. In fact, half of all divorces happen in the first seven years of marriage.
Family people are twice as likely to go to church.
Married couples with children divorce much less frequently than those without children.
The number of cohabiting men and women aged 65 and over doubled between 1990 and 2000.
A 15-year study showed that an increased level of a person's happiness before marriage is a guarantee of happiness in family life.