Survival Rates Among Religiously Homogamous and Interreligious Marriages

Survival rates among religiously homogamous and interreligious marriages

Factors related to interreligious marriages in Iowa, 1953-57

Religious Homogamy and Marital Happiness

Data from a representative sample of 1,070 married Protestants and Catholics were used to examine the relationship between religious homogamy and marital happiness. Although couples may vary in the extent to which they share religious views (e.g., beliefs, values), previous research has treated religious homogamy as a dichotomy; a couple is either homogamous or it is not. A partial explanation ...

Survival Rates and Consequences

To first order, the initial cluster luminosity function appears to be universal. This means that the brightest young cluster in a galaxy can be predicted from the total number of young clusters based purely on statistics. This suggests that the physical processes responsible for the formation of clusters are similar in a wide variety of galaxies, from mergers to quiescent spirals. One possibili...

Evaluation and treatment of unconsummated marriages among Orthodox Jewish couples.

Orthodox Judaism expects new brides and grooms to engage in sexual intercourse on the first night of marriage or soon thereafter, despite stringent norms forbidding premarital physical contact. Any delay for more than several weeks in consummating a marriage is seen as problematic and worthy of rabbinic or professional attention. This article examines traditional Jewish sources for this emphasi...