We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in the life cycle has changed, re...

This paper considers marriage, divorce and reciprocity-based cooperation by couples in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one bene...t to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be multiple equilibria di¤ering not only in family formation and dissolution patterns but also in the role of marriage in providing informal ins...

This paper discusses the interest in and politics surrounding government's using welfare reform legislation to carve out a stronger role in promoting marriage. It examines trends in family formation, their impact on society, and the effect of single parenting, divorce, and step-parenting on child well-being. The paper also looks at the treatment of marriage in current government programs, new s...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine family functioning, marital quality, social support, and anxiety and depression in Chinese patients with Epilepsy (PWE) in comparison with healthy people. METHODS This case-control study included 42 PWE and 42 healthy controls. Participants completed the Zung's self-rating depression scale, the Zung's self-rating anxiety scale, the Chinese v...

In Islam, marriage is the best answer to all natural and psychic needs of human beings. So marriage is one of the preferences that Divine and Heaven justifies it. According to the Islamic legal: A man can afford four spouses if he could act under Shariat and Justice behavior. Mohammad (pbuh) the prophet of Islamic once mentioned in his teaching that marriage is one of perfect tradition. Thus m...

family as the smallest and the most fundamental structure of the society forms the basis and foundation of the society and in the meantime marriage itself can be considered as the basis and foundation of the family. considering the importance of marriage, changing and transitions and creating disorder in the process of the marriage is a social problem which may be affected both the basis of the...

Under modern conditions, the institute of family and marriage relations is stable research interest in context transformation processes society associated with spread various forms models unregistered marriage, which are popular among youth. Due to its institutional features, has a number advantages, absence legal foundations mutual obligations between partners play crucial role choosing future...

This purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of the cost-effectiveness research for the profession and practice of marriage and family therapy. Studies based on four sources of data were considered: (1) a western United States HMO covering 180,000 subscribers; (2) the Kansas State Medicaid system with over 300,000 beneficiaries; (3) Cigna, a large Unites States health insurance benefits m...

vi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Background 1 Study objectives 2 Study setting 3 Methods 3 Chapter 2: Early marriage: Preferences and realities 5 Age at marriage: Girls’ preferences 5 Age at marriage: Parents’ preferences 6 Age at marriage: The reality 7 Chapter 3: Factors underlying early marriage 9 Poverty and the burden of marriage-related expenses 9 Concerns about finding a suitable groom 9 ‘Ev...

The birth rate reducing to the level that does not ensure even simple reproduction of population, which leads problems in economy and social sphere migration crises, is a challenge for many developed countries. demographic family policy measures aim at solving this problem, reflected, instance, Russian National Security Strategy approved on July 2, 2021 by Decree President: increasing declared ...