A 8-month-old female baby presented with cushingoid facies, with large skin folds involving the extremities and trunk since birth (Fig. 1). The child was born to healthy parents in a non-consanguineous marriage. The child weighed 8 kgs, was exclusively breast fed and developmentally normal and had no dysmorhic features. There was no history of similar complaints in other family members. Serum c...

Kathryn Edin and Joanna Reed review recent research on social and economic barriers to marriage among the poor and discuss the efficacy of efforts by federal and state policymakers to promote marriage among poor unmarried couples, especially those with children, in light of these findings. Social barriers include marital aspirations and expectations, norms about childbearing, financial standard...

In many traditional societies, women's age at marriage acts simultaneously as a gateway to new family roles and the likelihood of producing offspring. However, inadequate attention has previously been given to the broader health and social implications of variability in women's marriage age for public health. Biomedical scientists have primarily been concerned with whether the onset of reproduc...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review current evidence on the links between early marriage and health-related outcomes for young women and their children. RECENT FINDINGS Every third young woman in the developing countries excluding China continues to marry as a child, that is before age 18. Recent studies reiterate the adverse health consequences of early marriage among young women and their children ...

Early marriage, particularly (early) girl-child is prevalent in many indigenous ethnic and cultural communities around the world Cameroon. In spite of this, despite fact that studies have continued to be carried out on phenomenon elicit its causes effects individuals practicing communities, no study has attempted develop a psychological theory practice based itself. Most theories informed early...

Abstract: Highlighting the potential discrepancy between Child Protection Law (No. 35/2014) and Marriage 16/2019) in issue of marrying children under minimum age marriage, which is 19 years. Parents are obliged to "prevent child marriage" according Article 26 paragraph 1 letter c 35/2014), but 7 Paragraph 2 actually opens up opportunities for parents marry off. still not old enough without viol...

During the latter half of the 20th century, there were notable increases in the age at first marriage among Americans and related increases in the proportion of unmarried and never-married adults. Research finds that, in comparison with unmarried persons, married persons tend to exhibit greater physical, emotional, and economic wellbeing, although the association may vary by outcome, sex, and o...

We consider a society where parents prefer boys to girls, but also value grandchildren. Parental sex selection results in a biased sex ratio that is socially ine¢ cient, due to a congestion externality in the marriage market. Improvements in selection techniques aggravate the ine¢ ciency. These results are robust to allowing prices in the marriage market, if the market is subject to frictions. ...