The institution of marriage is undergoing a rapid change globally with the change in societal value system. This change is viewed in some quarters a sign of modernity. Marriages once considered to be universal in the countries of Asia are no longer true in some parts and/or in some sections of the society in this region. In a few countries of the Middle East, however, increasing numbers of both...

Turkish law is applied for all marriage procedures of asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless persons to be conducted in Turkey. Under law, a national an asylum-seeker, refugee or person, two asylum-seekers different nationalities, can married by the authorities. All marriages carried out authorities are subject Civil Code related regulations. Marriages officers at Marriage Departments municipal...

We show that in Italy the legalization of divorce 1971 unleashed forces secularization, making educated persons more likely to contract a civil, rather than religious marriage. This process, ignited by institutional change, is also shaped cultural factors: choice civil marriage responsive education presence high levels social capital and/or weak family ties. These results emerge from both four-...

although self injury is a common phenomena seen in persons who are referred to forensic medicine, sometimes attempts to injury oneself cause many problems for the patients and makes it difficult for physicians to make a precise diagnosis. there are two kinds of self injury: pathologic (due to mental disorders) and malingering (planned). the results of this study showed that of 1500 individuals ...

this study was performed with aim of investigating the relationship between spiritual health, attitude toward relationship before marriage and couple burnout in married women. the research was descriptive and correlational. the statistical society of this research composed of all practitioner and not practitioner married women in babol. 384 persons were selected according on cochran formula by ...

The present study is aimed at exploring the relationship between marital adjustment, stress and depression. Sample of the study consisted of 150 working and non-working married women (working married women = 75, non-working married women = 75). Their age ranged between 18 to 50 years. Their education was at least gradation and above. They belong to middle and high socio-economic status. Urdu Tr...

This paper analyzes how different types of HIV-knowledge influence condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of market persons in Lagos in 2008. Last time condom use is analyzed based on a Probit model while correcting for clustering effects. Next to socioeconomic characteristics, the data includes q...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of insomnia, its associated factors and the use of sleep medicines. METHODS The cross-sectional survey of 1488 adults from five urban and semi urban communities of Karachi, Pakistan, was conducted from August 2007 to July 2008. All face-to-face interviews were conducted in Urdu and data was entirely based on self-reported information by the respondents. Data...

BACKGROUND We investigated the association of living alone with mortality among older persons, independently of marital, health and other factors, and explored its effect modification by age group, sex, marital status and physical functional disability. METHOD Using data from 8 years of mortality follow up (1 September 2003 to 31 December 2011) of 2553 participants in the Singapore Longitudin...

PURPOSE As part of an ongoing effort to analyze the distributional implications of potential policy reforms to the U.S. Social Security system, we consider the widely discussed reform of earnings sharing. Such an approach has been viewed as a way to "update" Social Security's family benefits based on marital status and as a means to make the system more marriage neutral. DESIGN AND METHODS We...