The phenomenon of early marriage or dispensation continues to experience a surge, although it has dropped in 2020. Early is considered as social problem because violates laws, regulations, and norms some Indonesian societies. study was conducted at the Bantul District Religious Court. purpose this find out meaning granting by state opinions various actors marriage. This research using qualitati...

This study raises women’s issues that are part of lives. It draws particularly the wedding songs pragmatics in societies which communication is an oral cultural basis. From these views, topic elaborates perception a certain community, regarding to illustrate handful characteristics civilized rules held by tradition. treats from view pragmatic meaning problem which, extracted version taken infor...

This study reports the results of a primarily qualitative investigation of adolescent reproductive behavior in the Kassena-Nankana District, an isolated rural area in northern Ghana, where traditional patterns of marriage, family formation, and social organization persist. The study is based on in-depth interviews and focus-group discussions with adolescents, parents, chiefs, traditional leader...

We determined the association of demographic, behavioral, and structural factors with risk HIV exposure through heterosexual contact among Black men in Ottawa (n=210) Windsor (n=156), Ontario. applied hierarchical linear regression model analysis. Mean scores were (12.08±8.42) (17.16±11.80) (Scale = 48). Age, marriage, employment, masculinity, condom attitudes statistically significant (p <0...

stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women.these storiescan bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society.this research aims to study women’s positionin bakhtiary’s cultu...

This paper examines marriage market equilibrium when allocation is determined by bargaining in marriage rather than binding agreements between prospective spouses. We view sorting in the marriage market and allocation in marriage as a two-stage game in which prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, foresee the allocation that would emerge from bargaining in marriage, but are ...

Using data from two surveys in three counties where the prevalence of uxorilocal marriage differs greatly, this paper analyzes the effects of marriage form, individual, family and social factors on age at first marriage and spousal age difference. The results show that, under the Chinese patrilineal joint family system, compared with the dominant virilocal marriage form, uxorilocal marriage sig...

Childbearing within unmarried cohabitation has increased significantly over past decades. Earlier studies have linked non-marital childbearing to low educational attainment. In this study, we address non-marital childbearing from a couple’s perspective, taking into account both his and her human capital. We examine the link between educational assortative mating and family formation within and ...

This article examines alternative approaches to encourage family formation among fragile families, including higher cash benefits, more liberal acceptance of welfare applications, more effective child support enforcement, and efforts to increase education and employment of low-income parents. We examine these approaches by refining and expanding previous work on a generalized logit model of the...

This paper studies global social interactions in a stylized model of marriage and divorce with complementarities across agents. The key point of departure from traditional models of social interactions is that actions are interrelated and sequential. We establish existence and uniqueness results akin to those in traditional models. In contrast to these models, however, we show that the presence...