Customer Reviews

Marriage Vows 2000; The New Marriage Contract For The Next Millennium

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On the whole, I thought this book provided a good overview of topics to discuss prior to marriage -- particularly for couples who plan to have children. Even for those couple who don't plan to have children, this book offers a comprehensive list of topics to at least discuss prior to making a life-long commitment.

However, as a feminist I was dismayed by some of the politics and opinions that the author opined. For example, the author says that women should submit to their husbands sexually "as often as possible" so as to avoid adultery on the husband's part. While the author does go to some length to discuss the absolute prohibition of domestic violence, I felt his opinion that women should submit sexually to their husband's needs was somewhat contradictory. In addition, his comments about unplanned pregnancies ("unborn child") left something to be desired. However, if you don't find these issues important or are willing to overlook them, you might find this book useful.

Well, I think this is a decent book and easy to read. Most of all I liked the unusual sections, on things like; cloning, body piercing and other futuristic sujects.

In the future, I think most marriages will be structured like this, with a detailed contract to protect the people getting married. This book is way ahead of it's time!

I found this book to be informative and full of good creative ideas that will help me when I get married.

The range of subjects covered was very broad and covered a lot of things that will be essential for my fiance and I to discuss before we get married.

I especially liked that there was a sample marriage contract, since I haven't seen anything like that elsewhere.

Overall I would give this book a very high rating because it might help a lot of people work out problems ahead of time. It also might help some people change their minds about getting married before they go too far!

This is the most thought provoking and well planned books of the last three decades. What an amazing work of abstract thinking and witty dialogue.