This longitudinal study identified factors of couples' marital friendship in the beginning months of marriage that predicted stability versus decline in marital satisfaction over the transition to parenthood. Newlywed couples (N = 130) were followed longitudinally for 6 years. Forty-three couples because parents, and 39 childless couples served as a control group. Couples were interviewed about...

At the end of another long and difficult day, it’s easy to lose all sense of the joy of working as a GP. It’s still there, under a pile of paperwork maybe, but it’s still there. I’m thinking about the baby born after many years of trying, when you exchange smiles with the parents, who know too well the years of tears and infertility. I’m thinking about the bereaved husband, and the wife who cam...

Caldwell’s emotional nucleation hypothesis is not simply an understudied prediction it is an important alternative to other theories of fertility decline because it offers a clear explanation of why many couples might choose to have small numbers of children once any childbearing at all is no longer economically rational. After years of design and testing to construct setting specific measures ...

Sexual transmission of brucellosis has rarely been reported in humans. We describe 2 cases of probable sexual transmission of Brucella from husband to wife. In 1 case, orchidoepididimitis existed, whereas in the other case, the presence of Brucella in the semen in the absence of genital symptoms was demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction.

Th e infl uence of environmental factors on the development of Crohn's disease (CD) is well established. Th e development of CD in a married couple might be an example underlying the importance of environmental factors involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. So far, scattered cases of the appearance of CD during the period of marriage in both the husband and wife appeared in the literature...

Blastomycosis is an uncommon, chronic, granulomatous disease caused by the dimorphic fungus Blastomycosis dermatitidis. The great majority of infections start with primary pulmonary involvement through inhalation of spores. Hematogenous dissemination to other sites occurs in 25% to 30% of cases. The most common secondary site is the skin, followed in order by bone, genitourinary system, and cen...

This paper aims to analyze Chaucer’s use of food as a sexual metaphor in the carnal universe his fabliaux, namely, The Miller’s Tale, Reeve’s and Merchant’s Tale. Fabliaux usually narrate adulterous relationship revolving around young wife, her old husband, virile man. Therefore, sex plays an essential part dynamics these tales. argues that is both associated with female characters’ escapades p...