This paper tries to symbolically evaluate the character, Alexi Alexandrovich Karenin, as an ideal husband figure in comparison with other characters from movie Anna Karenina (2012) which is adaptation of well-known novel by prominent author, Leo Tolstoy. Here, dramatic focus not just bestowed protagonist and her lover, instead side lined betrayed meek character his true heart valued ideal. The ...

Using contemporary population data from Taiwan, we examine the relationships between parental age difference, educationally assortative mating, income and offspring count. Controlling for women's reproductive value (measured by age at first birth), we find that an older husband is associated with fewer offspring, whereas a husband with similar or higher education is associated with more offspri...

A family is reported in which a brother and sister both showed non-progressive cerebellar ataxia, aplasia of the pupillary zone of the iris, and mild mental subnormality. These clinical findings were similar to those in two previous case reports. Despite the birth of an affected son to the affected sister, this family is considered to confirm autosomal recessive inheritance of this syndrome. Th...

She is 36 weeks pregnant. She worries that if she leaves her community now she will spend weeks waiting for this second baby. She knows her husband and her aunt will take good care of the little one she leaves behind, but her daughter is too young to understand why her mother is leaving. Will her husband and family be able to join her when she welcomes her newborn? Will she be alone? She is any...

A recent Supreme Court judgement is unwelcome and regressive for the women’s movement, especially for reproductive rights. When hearing an appeal in the Ghosh vs Ghosh divorce case, the court ruled on March 26, 2007: “If a husband submits himself for an operation of sterilisation without medical reasons and without the consent or knowledge of his wife and similarly if the wife undergoes vasecto...