This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian (East Germany) to those gender-traditional (West Germany). Using household panel, show that long-run penalty on female income share is 26.9 percentage points West German couples, compare...

Although minimization of blaming and denials responsibility are key components many approaches to couple therapy, there has been little attention paid how partners absolve themselves counter attributions blame. In this study, we used thematic analysis examine 40 videorecorded sessions therapy. The study shows that injuring denied for harm by shifting it sources outside themselves, thereby justi...

INTRODUCTION We report the fi rst successful preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis in Singapore, involving both fresh and frozen embryo replacement cycles. CLINICAL PICTURE Two couples who were carriers of the Southeast Asian type double gene deletion (--(SEA) deletion carriers) requested for PGD. Couple A had 2 previous affected pregnancies, while couple B hav...

115 couples with consanguineous marriage, who had experienced reported abortions or still births either in their close relatives (3 couples) or themselves (1 couple) were exposed to genetic counseling (at the shahid akbarabadi hospital) cytogenetic studied were carried out using both conventional staining and g.t.g banding for all the cases studied. the investigation demonstrated various forms ...