(Editor's comment: Del Martin is the woman most identified with the attack on wife-battering; she is the author of the first major and the most definitive book on this subject, she has achieved recognition as an authority and a source of help, and she has appeared by im'itation on programs of the American Sociological Association and the American Psychiatric Association on this subject, Her art...

The social files and medical records of 98 acutely battered wives who attended a surgical emergency department were studied. Although all women had been hospitalized during the decade preceding the present incident, wife battering was documented in the records in only 18%. The majority of the women (73%) were also known to the social services, but battering was documented in less than half of t...

In a world where images of picture-perfect celebrities are plastered everywhere, it can be alarmingly easy to fall into a movie star crush. But it sounds like you?re worried that your wife?s crush may be getting out of hand ? or, at the very least, is seriously straining your marriage. It?s not unusual to feel hurt, jealous, or confused if your partner is pining over some hot-shot with (movie) ...

the dower is the first financial debt which established incumbent upon the husband after the realization of marriage. the wife has the right to demand the debt from the husband and then obtain its possession. if after the request of the wife, the husband claims to be insolvent and unable to pay the debt, the legal procedure of iranian courts is that the husband is sentenced to imprisonment so t...