This study explores how mental illness shapes transitions to marriage among unwed mothers using augmented data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. We estimate proportional hazard models to assess the effects of mental illness on the likelihood of marriage over a five year period following a non-marital birth. Diagnosed mental illness was obtained from the survey respondents' pr...

Introduction: In the Marriage Act has been formulated several principles of marriage, one which is principle marriage in terms age marriage. accordance with provisions, it confirmed that for men and women 19 (nineteen) years. Furthermore, if there are irregularities regarding parties who have not reached specified age, permissible to apply a dispensation Religious Court.Purposes Research: This ...

Fragile Families data (n = 1,702 couples) are employed to examine the association between mother and father reported parenting characteristics (father involvement and coparenting) and transitions out of cohabitation through marriage or separation in the five years after a child is born. Father involvement and coparenting may be signs of commitment and investment among couples without the legal ...

Using data from the Fragile Families Study, we examine how unmarried parents' risk of divorce influences their decision to marry. Regression results show that unmarried parents with a high predicted probability of marital dissolution (based on estimates of marital dissolution for a sample of initially married mothers with similar characteristics) had significantly lower odds of marriage to the ...

Marriage between biological relatives is widely popular in many parts of the world, with over 1000 million people living in countries where 20-50+% of unions are contracted between couples related as second cousins or closer. Consanguinity is, however, a controversial topic, in part due to public misunderstanding, complicated by often exaggerated past estimates of the adverse health outcomes. W...

Abstract Despite increased vulnerability of displaced communities, the evidence child marriage in humanitarian setting remains scarce. We conducted this study to estimate prevalence among Somali and Yemeni refugees their host communities Djibouti; assess its independent associations with different exposure variables. Using a stratified random sampling design, we recruited eligible refugee hosts...

This study aims to find out how society views child marriage, the impact it causes, and government's role in tackling underage marriage using qualitative methods with a descriptive approach. The results conclusions of this indicate that as natural thing based on hereditary habits. has several impacts, one which is experiencing health problems. early Ara Village, Kec. Bonto Bahari Kab. Bulukumba...