aim and background: relationship enhancement is one of the life skill training programs and it could effect on couples coping styles with life tensions. this study aimed to investigate the effect of relationship enhancement on improving marital coping strategies of couples in isfahan. method and materials: the design of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control groups...

Married foreigners On 1 January 1999 the Netherlands was home to 453 thousand married couples with at least one partner born in a foreign country (table 1). Less than half of these couples consist of partners who were both born in a foreign country. 108 thousand foreign-born males have a Dutch-born wife and 133 thousand foreign-born females have a Dutch-born husband. Since 1992 the number of th...

Asymptotic couples (of H-type) try to capture the structure induced by the derivation of a Hardy field K on the value group of the natural valuation on K. In this note we continue the study of algebraic and model-theoretic aspects of asymptotic couples undertaken in [1]. We give a short exposition of some basic facts about asymptotic couples, and address a few topics left out in that paper: the...

BACKGROUND More and more lesbian couples are planning parenthood through donor insemination and IVF and the number of planned lesbian families is growing in Sweden and other western countries. Research has shown that lesbian couples report as much overall satisfaction in their relationships as do heterosexual couples. However, although parenthood is highly desired, many parents are unaware of t...

While working with homosexual couples, professionals have to recognize specific conditions they live in and the characteristics of their relation dynamics. Patterns elaborated for working with heterosexual couples are often useless in the case of homosexual couples and may even lead to a misunderstanding of their behaviours. This especially refers to the roles they play in the couples, the prob...

Data presented in the meta-analysis by Oghenowede Eyawo and colleagues sheds new light on the role of serodiscordant couples in driving the incidence of HIV in Africa. The HIV epidemic in Africa is driven by heterosexual transmission. Studies have shown transmission in stable discordant couples can be as low as 1·9 per 100 person-years to as high as 19·0 per 100 person-years; these couples are ...

BACKGROUND If transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection through parenteral exposure is well documented, sexual transmission of HCV is still debated. AIMS To perform extensive epidemiological and virological analysis in 24 couples in which each spouse was anti-HCV positive in order to delineate more precisely potential sexual transmission of HCV. PATIENTS Twenty four couples in which...

background: c onflicts are inevitable among couples. in fact, couples show various levels of independence and correlation in common decisions they make and cooperation they have. high levels of conflicts would lead to family dissociation. the present study tried to evaluate the relation between sex education and on reducing the overall marital conflict score and its dimensions such as relations...

Coparenting is associated with child behavior in families with heterosexual parents, but less is known about coparenting among lesbian- and gay-parent families. Associations were studied among self-reported divisions of labor, coparenting observations, and child adjustment (Mage  = 3 years) among 104 adoptive families headed by lesbian, gay, or heterosexual couples. Lesbian and gay couples repo...

This study contributes to the emerging demographic literature on same-sex couples by comparing the level and correlates of union stability among four types of couples: male same-sex cohabitation, female same-sex cohabitation, different-sex cohabitation, and different-sex marriage. I analyze data from two British birth cohort studies, the National Child Development Study (N = 11,469) and the 197...