BACKGROUND Cross-national research suggests that married people have higher levels of well-being than cohabiting people. However, relationship quality has both positive and negative dimensions. Researchers have paid little attention to disagreements within cohabiting and married couples. OBJECTIVE This study aims to improve our understanding of the meaning of cohabitation by examining disagreem...

Married foreigners On 1 January 1999 the Netherlands was home to 453 thousand married couples with at least one partner born in a foreign country (table 1). Less than half of these couples consist of partners who were both born in a foreign country. 108 thousand foreign-born males have a Dutch-born wife and 133 thousand foreign-born females have a Dutch-born husband. Since 1992 the number of th...

to what extent do socio-economic and cultural factors influence fertility? what are women's fertility conditions among different religious sub-groups? to answer these questions, the required data were collected from 362 shiites and sunni women living in sarpolzhab, iran. then the collected data were analyzed. the results indicated a statistically significant difference between the reproductive ...

The past quarter century has seen an increasing amount of research on the demographic characteristics and economic decisions of gay and lesbian Americans. The majority of the nationally representative research on same-sex couples in the United States uses the U.S. Census and American Community Surveys as primary data source. We utilize differences in data collection methods in the American Comm...

This qualitative study investigates the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and duration of marriage in Turkish context explores spouses’ perceptions, experiences, solutions concerning IPV. Participants were thirty couples married for twenty or more years. Data collection tools a semi-structured interview, observation notes taken during socio-demographic questionnaire. analysis...

this study examined the relationship between some socio- demographic variables, medical orientations and utilization of health services of urban in comparison with rural head of households. the data for this study were obtained as part of 1975 health survey of the southern provinces of iran. the finding revealed a significant relationship between the indices used in this study, particularly in ...