OBJECTIVES This study examines the impact of social ties on the relationship between widowhood and depressive symptoms among the older Korean population. METHOD Data were derived from the baseline survey of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. The sample consisted of 1,953 men and 2,469 women aged ≥60 years who were married and had at least 1 child. The 10-item Center for Epidemiological S...

This paper provides new estimates of changing patterns of serial cohabitation, using data from the 1995 and 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Serial cohabitation is defined as having multiple premarital cohabiting relationships. Analyses indicate that rates of serial cohabitation increased by nearly 40 percent over the late 1990s and early 2000s, and rates were especially high among young ...

BACKGROUND Among the eight known human herpes viruses, Epstein- Barr virus (EBV) is considered to be sexually transmissible. This study was conducted to evaluate the seroepidemiology of this infection in married and unmarried Iranian couples. METHODS In this comparative observational and cross-sectional study, 160 men and women were divided into married and unmarried groups. Serum IgG and IgM...

Article history: Received 25 November 2010 Received in revised form 21 February 2011 Accepted 21 February 2011 Available online 17 March 2011 Childhood intelligence (age 11) and occupational social status at midlife (age 46 to 51) was associated with marital status and reproduction in a sample from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study (N=9614). Male and female divorcees had lower chi...

This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden). Data were obtained from the United Nations Demographic Yearbooks and national statistical sources. According to the results there h...

The Young Adults Fertility and Sexuality Study (YAFS-II) was conducted in 1994 by interviewing 10,879 men and women aged 15-24 years in households on dating, marriage, and onset of sexual activity in the Philippines. In addition, screening data were collected on all households visited and on the 959 sampled local communities. Direct questions on premarital sex revealed that at least 52% of ma...

BACKGROUND In Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent women's human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and political economic, social and cultural conditions which shape how rights are understood, negotiated and lived. METHODS The focus of the research and methods was anthropological. ...

Background According to available evidence, one in three married women in Ethiopia tends to avoid multiple children. On the other hand, women using Long Acting and Permanent Contraceptive Methods (LAPMs) are just 5 %. So, we aimed at identifying the factors associated with the utilization of LAPMs. Methods We conducted a community based unmatched case control study among married women living ...

and an accepted practice. The most recent estimates show that as many as 35 percent of married women aged 15–49 had experienced physical violence and 10 percent had experienced sexual violence perpetrated by their current or former husband over the course of their married life (IIPS and Macro International, 2007). Policies and programmes have increasingly focused on preventing violence against ...