The article is devoted to the consideration of issues related revealing essence concept traditional marriage and family relations, defining their scope fundamental differences. existing types marriages, in addition legally established ones, were studied features clarified. state legislative consolidation norms regulating nontraditional marital relations has been determined. issue ensuring regis...

We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. ...

It has been known for a long time that patients suffering from rare diseases following a recessive mode of inheritance are, in a high proportion of cases, offspring of marriages between related partners who themselves are healthy. In such cases varying percentages of 'consanguineous marriages' have been reported. Such figures are useful as a general orientation. The great differences found betw...

Whether measured by social rank, occupational status or educational levels, newlyweds tend to resemble one another. The pattern of like marrying like, which anthropologists label status homogamy, is observed across time and place, and is true among both commoners and the nobility. This paper investigates complexion homogamy (light marries light and dark marries dark) in the African-American com...

Little is known about current attitudes towards cousin marriages. Using data from a rural population in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the present research examined how life history was related to attitudes towards cousin marriages in various ethnic groups. Participants were 205 parents from three ethnic groups. i.e., Mestizos (people of mixed descent, n = 103), indigenous Mixtecs (n = 65), and B...

Having considered current reports concerning plagiarisms taking place in the global science community, the authors decided to address the principal reasons, which lead to these illegalities. In recent years, misconduct in research, such as plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, guest author, ghost author, self-citation, etc. have been increasing significantly in scientific papers, proving a la...