OBJECTIVE With 20-30% of all marriages occurring between first cousins, increasing attention in Jordan is now given to role of consanguinity in the occurrence of genetic diseases. The objective of this study is to define the specific categories of genetic disorders associated with consanguineous marriages. METHODS Etiological categories and consanguinity rates were studied among 623 families ...

This article studies the places where spouses met for first time in Italy. The focus is on online settings most recent marriage cohorts (2000-2009 and 2010-2016). aim to investigate trends over use of Internet as a meeting place explore whether dating can affect rules assortative mating homogamy. Information about marriages analyzed highly engaged relationships. A quantitative approach used biv...

OBJECTIVES Consanguinity is a wide spread practice in Jordan. The objective of this study is to explore the health effects of consanguinity, in particular fertility, reproductive wastage, infant mortality and congenital malformations. METHODS A stratified 2 stage cluster sample of 1867 married couples, representative of all population groups and all geographic locations of Jordan were randoml...

Given that social institutions are the basis of any society, they must ideally operate in unison with functional necessities for any society to function and then flourish. The plethora of issues confronting Nigeria as a country may be traced back to weak, incompetent, and dysfunctional social institutions that have failed to alter the status quo. According to Talcott Parsons, society is analogo...

This article examines the intersection of music and literature by taking Malaysian musical performance song cycles as examples. The term, cycles, is often used in musico-literary studies usually associated with Cyrus Hamlin his definition it arrangements reinterpretations well-established literary narratives. By incorporating poetry analysis interviews Razak Abdul Aziz concerning 10 Pantun Sett...

The post-1980 decline in the crude divorce rate must be interpreted in the context of the long-term trend and in terms of what we know about composition effects on crude measures-particularly given shifts in age at marriage and the age composition effects of the baby boom. Data from the June 1985 Current Population Survey permit more detailed, exposure-specific measurements as well as the use o...

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Il caso 3. L’iter processuale e gli argomenti. Materialità del fatto ed ermeneutica antropologica 4. Un nuovo tassello nella cultural expertise: lo strumento della “audizione etnica” (escuta étnica) 5. pluralismo giuridico dialogico l’affidamento sanzione alla comunità guaranì 6. ruolo giudice di fronte a pratiche culturali patriarcali 7. Dal Brasile all’Europa: spunt...