This longitudinal study examined the effect of the birth of the 1st child on relationship functioning using data from 218 couples (436 individuals) over the course of the first 8 years of marriage. Compared with prebirth levels and trajectories, parents showed sudden deterioration following birth on observed and self-reported measures of positive and negative aspects of relationship functioning...

With introduction of social niche effects into a model of cultural change, the frequency of a practice cannot predict the frequency of its underlying belief. The combination of a general model with empirical data from a specific case illustrates the importance of collaboration between modellers and field researchers, and identifies the type of quantitative data necessary for analysing case stud...

This study looked at the strength of relationships between attitudes and intentions to marry for Australians and Americans. It also examined cross-cultural differences in attitudes and intentions. Participants were 313 single female undergraduates from both the University of WisconsinLa Crosse (n = 201) and University of La Trobe (Bundoora Campus) in Australia (n = 112). I found that Americans ...

Customary marriage (nikāḥ ‘urfī)—non-official married life of a couple—is a new phenomenon increasingly spreading throughout the Arab world. Legal and social consequences of customary marriage have led many socio-jurisprudential scholars to forbid all its varieties. The strategy has, nevertheless, failed to restrain the spread of this type of marriage. In this paper, I argue that one f...

The amendment of the Law Marriage in 2019 introduces new concept Dispensation by providing some additional provisions: obligations to provide urgency marriage and specific supporting evidence proving urgency. This article aims examine interpretations judges Religious Court on defining child-age implementation cases Marriage. Based identification, author analyzes main questions about protection ...

The models of this paper attempt to account for the age, sex, and marital status distributions of human populations. A marriage market develops around preferences for mates of different ages, and we study this market as changes in age distributions change the availability of mates. Unless we know how to relate marriages to the exposed population, we cannot even calculate rates that will tell us...

Among the Karo of Indonesia, the frequency of matrilateral cross-cousin (impal) marriage has declined in recent decades. We conducted a vignette experiment to assess the contributions of a handful of factors in shaping this pattern. Surprisingly, we found that cosocialization of a hypothetical woman with her impal led to increased judgments of marriage likelihood and decreased feelings of disgu...

Improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change Re-evaluating the link between marriage and mental well-being: How do early life conditions attenuate differences between cohabitation and marriage? i ABSTRACT The decline in marriage and increase in cohabitation raises questions about whether marriage still provides benefits to well-being. Here we use the Brit...