INTRODUCTION Many women experience improved sexual function after hysterectomy. However, a sizeable minority of women report worsened sexual function after the surgery, and concerns about the effect of surgery on sexual function are common among women planning to undergo hysterectomy. AIM The present study examined the role of education about the potential sexual consequences of hysterectomy ...

This article explores the remarkable shift in marriage and divorce practices that has occurred in the last third of this century in the United States. Initially, information is presented on trends in divorce and remarriage; commonalities and differences between family patterns in the United States and in other industrialized nations are discussed. The author then identifies some of the factors ...

O  October , Baia Bari of Gassin village went before the tribunal de province of Segu seeking a divorce from her husband, Tiemoko Boare! of Koila. Both Baia Bari and Tiemoko Boare! were Muslims. Baia Bari claimed that Tiemoko Boare! had mistreated her and that she was prepared to return the bridewealth. In addition, Baia Bari sought the return of , cowries she claimed Tiemoko Boare! ...

This paper extends empirical research on determinants of divorce in two ways. First, I examine the effect of inflation on divorce. Second, the use of a structural time-series modeling approach attributes unobservables and omitted variables to an unobserved component, which allows for the model‘s parameters to be estimated consistently. Inflation is statistically significant, positive, and persi...

The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to “easier divorce” that took place during the second half of the 20th century have contributed to the increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a quasi-experimental set-up and exploit the different t...

How much help do people need after a divorce? Plenty of advice is available on how to save a marriage but what about the problems of restructuring life if it cannot be saved - a Divorce Counselling Service may be needed.

divorce as a social issue in iran has experienced lots of changes during the previous decades. in the present article, these changes are investigated considering the mode of their social development. to state the diverse dimensions of changes in the social structure of divorce in iran, the theoretical “analytic- realistic” model as one of the most efficient theoretical models has been utilized ...

Over the past two decades, more than one million children each year have experienced a family divorce, and the proportion of children affected by divorce is expected to grow substantially in the twenty-first century. Most of these children experience significant changes in their living arrangements, and the poverty rate for children of divorce is about twice the rate for all children in the Uni...

Divorce represents the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. To explore how social networks influence divorce and vice versa, we exploit a longitudinal data set from the long-running Framingham Heart Study. The results suggest that divorce can spread between friends. Clusters of divorces extend to two degrees of separation in ...