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...

Adolescent pregnancy has oc­ curred throughout America’s his­ tory. Only in recent years has it been deemed an urgent crisis, as more young adolescent mothers give birth outside of marriage. Atrisk circumstances associated with adolescent pregnancy in­ clude medical and health compli­ cations, less schooling and higher dropout rates, lower career aspi­ rations, and a life encircled by poverty. ...

Few reproductive health programs are targeted to married adolescent girls. This study measures changes associated with a program for married adolescent girls and a parallel husbands' program, in rural Ethiopia. The married girls' program provided information on communication, self-esteem, reproductive health and gender through girls' groups. The husbands' program focused on non-violence, suppor...

The pregnancy rate for U.S. women in 2009 was 102.1 per 1,000 women aged 15-44, the lowest level in 12 years; only the 1997 rate of 101.6 has been lower in the last 30 years. Rates for women under age 30 fell during 1990-2009, while rates for women aged 30 and over increased. Rates for teenagers reached historic lows in 2009, including rates for the three major race and Hispanic origin groups. ...

e-posta: [email protected] Abstract Leiomyomas, or fibroids, are the most common benign tumors of the uterus. Pedunculated submucous myomas usually cause menstrual irregularities but rarely labor like pain through dilating the cervix and prolapsing through it with possible avulsion of the twisted necrotic prolapsed portion. We present a case of pedunculated submucous myoma, mimicking cervica...

objective: to assess the level of knowledge of the adolescent girls regarding reproductive health issues. materials and methods: a cross sectional descriptive type of study was carried out among 150 unmarried adolescent girls of vashantek slum in dhaka city by face to face interview using a semistructured questionnaire from january to june 2008. results: the mean age of the respondents were 16....

BACKGROUND Being married is associated with healthier lifestyle behaviours and lower mortality and may reduce risk for dementia due to life-course factors. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of the association between marital status and the risk of developing dementia. METHODS We searched medical databases and contacted experts in the field for relevant studies repo...

A large body of literature has shown marked differences in the average level of child well-being across different family structures. Findings suggest that children living with two married parents are relatively advantaged; children living with two cohabiting unmarried parents generally have slightly worse outcomes than those living with married parents; while those living with a lone parent far...

There is extensive evidence that married people are, on average, healthier than their unmarried counterparts. It is unclear how much this positive correlation can be explained by the selection of healthier people into marriage. In this paper, I estimate the effect of marriage relative to cohabitation on health and disability. I control for selection into marriage by instrumenting marital status...

Marital status is an independent prognostic factor for various cancer types. The present study used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to analyze the impact of marital status on renal cancer patient survival outcomes. We identified a total of 62,405 eligible patients (23,800 women and 38,605 men). Overall 5-year renal cancer ca...