Etiology of infertility varies from region to region and from one population to another and even from one locality to another within the same population. Childlessness has serious demographic, social and health implications. Hence an attempt has been made to get some approximation about levels and patterns of infertility and childlessness in India by using National Family Health Survey-2 (1998-...

Since the 1990s, inter-provincial female migration for marriage has become important in central and eastern rural China. Using survey data from X County in rural Anhui Province, we explore the arrangement of inter-provincial marriages, as well as the characteristics of husbands and wives, marital satisfaction and marital stability for these marriages. We find that inter-provincial marriage is a...

We examined factors related to attitudes toward marriage and the importance of having children in both the US and Singapore. Path analysis indicated that life dissatisfaction leads to materialism, and both of these factors lead to favorable attitudes toward marriage, which leads to greater desire for children. Further analysis indicated this model was effective in explaining the difference in d...

We examine the stability of divorce determinants in the UK between 1960 and 1989. Using retrospective marriage history data, we show that, over successive marriage cohorts, the associations between marital instability and many covariates have undergone substantial, systematic and quite interpretable changes. Thus, the parameter for marrying a divorcee has weakened over time, while that for prem...

Is Marriage for White People? How the African-American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone1 by Stanford Law School Professor Ralph Richard Banks tackles the controversial subject of the decline, in recent decades, of marriage rates among African-Americans. The book provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the reasons fewer African-Americans have been getting married in recent years. The boo...

BACKGROUND Married young women's reproductive needs are a challenge in traditional Pakistani society. The decisions regarding family planning and pregnancy are controlled by the family, often involving complex negotiations. The current study was undertaken to explore how young married women's involvement in the arrangements surrounding their marriage is associated with their ability to negotiat...

This paper discusses "Pregnant Marriage according to Religious Court Judges from the Maslahah Perspective" by revealing problems, namely: (1) How is implementation of Article 53 KHI regarding pregnant marriage, (2) What are implications implementing marriage? And (3) analysis judges religious courts on concerning marriage and pregnancy a maslahah perspective? The Courts do not directly handle c...

BACKGROUND Marriage histories are a valuable data source for investigating nuptiality. While researchers typically acknowledge the problems associated with their use, it is unknown to what extent these problems occur and how marriage analyses are affected. OBJECTIVE This paper seeks to investigate the quality of marriage histories by measuring levels of misreporting, examining the characteris...

Few if any empirical studies have adequately accounted for or “explained” the rapid and apparently on-going changes in the American family, especially during the recent period of economic expansion. Our objective is to link recent U.S. marriage trends to changes in the employment and earnings of the marriage-eligible population, in state welfare benefit levels, and in macroeconomic performance ...

Using population intercensus and national survey data, we examine marriage timing in urban China spanning the past six decades. Descriptive analysis from the intercensus shows that marriage patterns have changed in China. Marriage age is delayed for both men and women, and prevalence of nonmarriage became as high as one-quarter for men in recent birth cohorts with very low levels of education. ...