OBJECTIVES For women, marriage before the age of 18 years has adverse consequences for physical, mental and emotional well-being and constitutes a barrier for continued education. According to a national survey, about 50% of all women in Eastern Turkey were aged under 18 years at first marriage. METHODS This study explored women's opinions and experiences of early marriage and culture-specifi...

Following the era of the ‘golden age of marriage’ and the baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s, marriage has declined in importance, and its role as the main institution on which family relations are built has been eroded across Europe. Union formation most often takes place without a marriage. Family and living arrangements are currently heterogeneous across Europe, but all countries seem to be ma...

The present cross sectional study was undertaken among the Assamese Muslim women of Kamrup district, Assam, one of the North-Eastern states of India with a view to understand the differences in the age at first marriage of women and socioeconomic factors influencing it. The findings of the present study reveals that the age at marriage is negatively associated with the type of family i.e., the ...

Trends and determinants of marriage payments have rarely been examined at the population level, despite their plausible implications for the welfare of family and the distribution of wealth across families and generations. In this study, we analyze population-based data from the Vietnam Study of Family Change to examine prevalence, directions, and magnitude of marriage payments in Vietnam from ...

Family formation changed dramatically over the twentieth century in the United States. The impact of these changes on childbearing has primarily been studied in terms of nonmarital fertility. However, changes in family formation behavior also have implications for fertility within marriage. We use data from ten fertility surveys to describe changes in the timing of marital childbearing from the...

Today, more than one third of children are born to unmarried mothers in a number of Western Countries. Evidently, activities formerly confined to the realms of marriage are no longer so. Does marriage have a future or is it condemned to the scrap heap of history? And does it matter? Arguably, to answer such questions we need to have a grasp on what marriage is. To that end, I will discuss legal...

The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia* How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to low...

Following Partition and the formation of Pakistan people have adapted to tremendous changes in their material circumstances and in their political, economic and social life, particularly in urban areas. Important resources that have helped support urban adaptation are the institutions of the family and its reproduction through arranging marriages1. Despite considerable change in the morphology ...

concentrating on the najafqolī khān family in azerbaijan in the qājār period, this article studies the importance of the marriage - based relations between the iranian local notables and the royal family. najafqolī khān“ii” was in favour of ‘abbās mīrzā due to his devotional services during the russo-persian war, which made him a great promotion in the qājār’s bureaucratic monarchy and provided...