In his writings, the Bāb (1819–1850), founder of Bābī religion, introduced laws and pronounced ethical injunctions pertaining to women that marked a significant departure from Muslim legal norms social customs prevailing in Iran wider Islamic world. His statements signal deliberate attempt improve status women, including marital relations. They addressed issues such as mutʿah taḥlīl marriages, ...

Introduction. The relevance of the study cross-cultural marriages in Russia and Iran is due to fact that are characterized by both attention observance cultural needs desire for innovative development. These contradictory manifestations also manifested family marriage relations. There a shortage empirical studies reflect range opinions various social strata Iran, allowing comparative analysis a...

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Marriages, intra-marital allocations and divorce are all determined endogenously. Changes in the laws that regulate property division in divorce affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing coup...

OBJECTIVE Metachromatic leukodystrophy disorder (MLD) is one of the rare neurometabolic diseases caused due to lack of saposin B and arylsulfatase A enzyme deficiency. MATERIALS & METHODS Eighteen patients diagnosed as metachromatic leukodystrophy in the Neurology Department of Mofid Children's Hospital in Tehran, Iran between 2010 and 2014 were included in our study. The disorder was confirm...

Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in 2006. Because of large differences in male income between China and HK, marriages of HK men with Mainland women outnumbered those of HK women w...