Although Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869) promotes conventional gender expectations and traditional values, at the same time it depicts heterosexual marriage as mercenary dispassionate. It proposes women’s choice to become self-sustaining a positive alternative marriage. Thus, narrative seems destabilize conventionality promotes: “spinsterhood,” independent career women, same-ge...

Genetic diseases devastate the society. Out of 9 million birth defects 7.9 are due to genetic causes. Management of most of the inherited disorders are very expensive and not affordable to majority. Early detection and lifelong therapy is mandatory. Palliative nature of the treatments available prolongs lives resulting in accumulation of cases and cost escalation. Therefore prevention is mandat...

This article discusses the giving of panaik money to Bugis marriage customs outside dowry obligation. culture has long been carried out at traditional weddings. The custom become a topic discussion among academics because it is not included in pillars and conditions Islam or positive law. that sometimes considered burdensome prospective groom cause be annulled. research library with normative a...

The current study sought to explore into whether women are obsessed with ‘white’ weddings.  It examined the various possible factors/variables attributed to this assertion. The researchers employed a qualitative case study approach to examine the phenomenon. Thirty single women at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana were sampled using the purposive sampling technique. ...

This research is analysis about the forms of marriage in Kei ethnic community develop and adaption themselves to con-temporary developments. Therefore, a form determined by method or mode man who carries out marriage, also depends on availability marital property consent woman's parents, vice ver-sa. There are seventh customary with differentiation traditional procession. In conclude, type its ...

consanguineous marriages are traditionally favoured in most of asian and african countries especially in the muslim countries. however, it is apparent that these kinds of marriage are a major factor of some genetic disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. although there is a long history of consanguineous marriage in iran, the information on its prevalence is too poor. the aim of ...