Marriage and Family Relationships

Incarceration, Marriage, and Family Life

This paper examines the effects of incarceration on marriage and family life. The paper reports on three empirical analyses. First, estimates show that incarcerated men are only about half as likely to be married as noninstituional men of the same age, however they are just as likely to have children. By 2000, more than 2 million children had incarcerated fathers; 1 in 10 black children under a...

The Relationship Between Family Marriage and Fetal Death

از وقایع تلخ مامایی سقط و مرگ جنین می باشد، تجربه تلخی که گاها بدون هیچ اخطاری در یک حاملگی اتفاق می افتد. براساس گزارشات موجود در ۴۰-۱۵ درصد موارد حاملگی، سقط جنین و در یک درصد حاملگیها مرگ جنین رخ می دهد. از آنجاییکه اختلالات ژنتیکی از علل مستعد کننده سقط و مرگ جنین می باشد و در ازدواج فامیلی امکان بروز بیماریهای ژنتیکی بیشتر می شود، بر آن شدیم مطالعه ای در مورد ارتباط بین ازدواج فامیلی و مرگ...

Marriage and Family in the Caribbean

59 Introduction The family has been described as the cornerstone of society. It is the basic unit of social organization, and it is extremely difficult to conceive how human society could function without this institution. In fact, anthropological studies have indicated that the family has existed in every known society. George Peter Murdock, for example, in a study entitled “Social Structure,”...

Family and Intimate Relationships

Attitudes on marriage and new relationships: Cross-national evidence on the deinstitutionalization of marriage

BACKGROUND Consistent with the deinstitutionalization-of-marriage thesis, studies report a decline in support for marital conventions and increased approval of other relationship types. Generalizations are limited by the lack of cross-national research for a broad domain of attitudes on marriage and alternative arrangements, and by the lack of consensus on what counts as evidence. OBJECTIVE A...