This essay responds to D. Davis and W. C. Follette (2002), who question the value of motive evidence in murder cases. They argue that the evidence that a husband had extramarital affairs, that he heavily insured his wife's life, or that he battered his wife is ordinarily of infinitesimal probative value. We disagree. To be sure, it would be foolish to predict solely on the basis of such evidenc...

The determinants of marital instability is an important area of research for demography, sociology and economics. A host of public policy outcomes are significantly affected by family breakdown. Yet we know little about the factors which currently determine marital longevity. This is attributable to inadequate data and statistical methodology. This paper improves our understanding of the issue ...

Background: Parental bonding perception leads to the different domains of future life. The goal of this study was to investigate the predictive role of parental bonding perception types of communicational patterns of couples of Tehran. Methods: This research was a correlational and descriptive study. The study sample comprised of 338 individuals who voluntarily participated in the research in ...

BACKGROUND This paper compares husband and wife reports of wife beating using household survey data collected from poor Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon. METHODS The analyses are based on a matched data file of 417 currently married couples, drawn from a unique multi-purpose living conditions sample survey of about 3600 Palestinian refugee households interviewed in the spring and su...

This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Two alternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought to marriage. Results show that both assets at marriage and current assets are strongly determined by the human capital of husband and wife a...

This study investigates sustained use of contraceptives among women in East Java, Indonesia. Interest is focused on the effect of whether the client's choice of contraceptive method was granted or denied, and the interaction between whether choice was granted or denied and husband-wife concurrence concerning method choice. Data were collected twice in a panel survey. The first round was conduct...

In this paper we investigate the possible states of knowledge among a group of individuals and their relations to decision making. A travelling salesman found himself spending the night at home with his wife when one of his trips was accidentally cancelled. The two of them were sound asleep, when in the middle of the night there was a loud knock at the front door. The wife woke up with a start ...

In this paper we investigate the possible states of knowledge among a group of individuals and their relations to decision making. A travelling salesman found himself spending the night at home with his wife when one of his trips was accidentally cancelled. The two of them were sound asleep, when in the middle of the night there was a loud knock at the front door. The wife woke up with a start ...

In this paper we investigate the possible states of knowledge among a group of individuals and their relations to decision making. A travelling salesman found himself spending the night at home with his wife when one of his trips was accidentally cancelled. The two of them were sound asleep, when in the middle of the night there was a loud knock at the front door. The wife woke up with a start ...

A girl, aged about 15 years, came into the outdoor department on 23rd April, 1935, with a complaint of retention of urine for the last two days. History.?She was married about one year ago. Her husband had left her as they could not live as husband and wife. She had retention of urine twice before, once about three months ago and the second time about one and a half months ago. Each time she wa...