An enquiry answered by 100 randomly selected British Pakistani mothers in the postnatal wards of two hospitals in West Yorkshire showed that 55 were married to their first cousins, while in only 33 cases had their mother been married to her first cousin. This suggests an increasing rate of consanguineous marriage in this relatively small group, by contrast with the decreasing rate observed in s...

transmissible either to a woman or her offspring; although in one or two cases an effort has been made to show that tertiary syphilis has been transmitted at all events to the offspring, he does not consider the evidence satis factor}*, and he said, " personally he would have the same, but no greater, objection to giving his consent to the marriage of a man with tertiary syphilis as to that of ...

This study explored violence against women with chronic maternal disabilities in rural Bangladesh. During November 2006-July 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 17 rural Bangladeshi women suffering from uterine prolapse, stress incontinence, or fistula. Results of interviews showed that exposure to emotional abuse was almost universal, and most women were sexually abused. The common t...

The purpose of this study is to test the prediction of the evolutionary theory of aging that human longevity comes with the cost of impaired reproductive success (higher infertility rates). Our validation study is based on the analysis of particularly reliable genealogical records for European aristocratic families using a logistic regression model with childlessness as a dependent (outcome) va...

marriage holds a special position in different cultures and religions. despite differences in the limits and conditions of marriage, religions have many similarities in regard to the issue of marriage. this research paper is a comparative study of marriage in islam, christianity, and judaism. the findings reveal that all three traditions recognize marriage to have a sacred nature, and they all ...

Marriage is a social system through which a man and woman come closer to each other and start living together to fulfil certain social and personal needs. Marriage is one of the most important events of life affecting physical status as well as psychiae of an individual. It not only serves to satisfy the fundamental biological need of sexual gratification of the individual through a socially ac...

Female criminality has always been a subjectwhich is generally not discussed because of less number women indulge in crimes but recent years told us the story other way. They are still at par with men that does mean they need to be focused upon. A girl child country like India consider as parayadhan grows up protection her father and brothers then husbands after marriage. Many times she becomes...

This paper analyzes data from the household registers for two villages in the Nôbi region of central Japan in the late Edo period (1717-1869) to assess how grandparents may have affected reproductive strategizing in stem families. The particulars of the family system fostered a culturally favored set of reproductive goals, in particular, a daughter as eldest child, followed by a son (and heir),...