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Ways to Bring Martin Luther King, Jr Alive to Kids
Civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King died almost 50 years ago. He would have been 87 on January 15. One of my mom friends, who witnessed King’s inspirational 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, recently told her two kids about her participation. They were…
Why Do Women Want to Get Married?
Marriage is an old institution created primarily for young people. In previous centuries, many women got married out of necessity. They needed protection, food and shelter, all things they were unable to provide for themselves. Today, women have independence and protection under the law, but marriage is still popular. Romantic love replaced marriages of convenience or strategy, but the reasons some women want to marry are not necessarily romantic in nature.