Video and Multimedia

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Video Links:

  • 10.1 Arranged Marriages
    Description: This video examines arranged marriages in regards to where they take place and why so many people accept this form of marriage as the norm.
     
  • 10.2 Polygamy
    Description: This video takes a look at those who live in polygamous families, specifically where women choose multiple husbands.
     
  • 10.3 Family Planning in Thailand
    Description: Thailand's "Mr. Condom," Mechai Viravaidya, retells the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny — and very effective — talk about condoms.
     
  • 10.4 Marriage
    Description: In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really work.

​Audio Links:

  • 10.1 Unconditional Love
    Description: Can love be taught? A family uses a controversial therapy to train their son to love them. And other stories about the hard and sometimes painful work of loving other people.
     
  • 10.2  Happy Marriages
    Description: Stories trying to understand what actually happens in marriages during this time when the definition of marriage is up in the air.
     
  • 10.3 Technology and Love
    Description: Love is instinctive and essential, but what is it that brings certain people together? In this hour, TED speakers examine the impact of technology on love and relationships.

Web Resources:

  • 10.1 Why Get Married?
    Description: This article takes a look at why monogamy became the norm in regards to marriages in the modern era.
     
  • 10.2 Divorce Myths
    Description: This article takes a look at the 27 most common myths regarding divorce. 
     
  • 10.3 Baby Boomers
    Description: This article from Contexts Magazine examines the paths that women who are considered to be part of the Baby Boomer generation (born between 1944 and 1954) have taken in regards their home and work lives.
     
  • 10.4 Women and Divorce
    Description: This article from Pacific Standard Magazine takes a look at the fact that women are more likely than men to initiate a divorce and examines the reasons as to why this is the case.