essay on jurisprudence and possible effects of the condition of the dowry *akram sayad **maryam aqai bejestani abstract dowry or mahr one of the financial effects of marriage that couples are required to pay it. high dowry payments and the subsequent imprisonment of many problems facing society and the families of the couple. one of the ways to avoid the dowries of the organization for registra...

BACKGROUND Proxy respondents are frequently used in health surveys, and the proxy is most often the spouse. Longstanding concerns linger, however, about the validity of using spousal proxies, especially for older adults. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the concordance between self-reports and spousal proxy reports to a standard health survey in a small convenience sample of olde...

This is a sociological study of twenty urban families in Greater London and it forms part of a research project shared between the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the Family Welfare Association. The families studied were "ordinary families" and this concept was used in clarifying the project to the subjects of the research as they were gradually accumulated. Data was sought about the...

The article focuses on definitions of and beliefs about wife abuse among undergraduate social work students in Israel. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires. The vast majority of students in Study 1 acknowledged acts thought to constitute wife assault and disapproved of a husband's use of force against his wife. The majority of students in Study 2 did not justify wife abu...

BACKGROUND Depression is the leading cause of impaired quality of life and burden upon societies. Social supports can buffer against depressive symptoms effectively. The aim of this study is to determine the type of social support to have a positive relationship with depressive symptoms in healthy population. METHODS 11,869 male and 12,763 female residents within the age range of 65-100 were ...