This paper will analyze the emerging law and economics justification for alimony. It will argue that while the economic justification for alimony contains some important insights, feminists and other family law scholars should ultimately be wary of attempting to justify postdivorce incomesharing by relying primarily on economic efficiency grounds. Part I of the paper will briefly sketch the his...

Few if any empirical studies have adequately accounted for or “explained” the rapid and apparently on-going changes in the American family, especially during the recent period of economic expansion. Our objective is to link recent U.S. marriage trends to changes in the employment and earnings of the marriage-eligible population, in state welfare benefit levels, and in macroeconomic performance ...

Background and Purpose: Violence against reproductive age women harms other health prioritiesو such as family planning and maternal health. This study aimed to identify the determinants of violence among reproductive age women. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 182 married women, 15-49 years old in Sarab City, Iran, through simple random sampling in 2018. Da...

Domestic violence is a growing concern for Albanian society. Gender-based violence-oriented studies have focused on physical, sexual, and psychological manifestations or their consequences. There still no study to refer the socioeconomic cost of against women in Albania. Knowledge economic causes consequences problem important enable society deal with it constructively correctly. It should be n...

BACKGROUND About 46 million induced abortions occur in the world annually. The studies have reported 80000 cases of induced abortions in Iran annually. OBJECTIVES This qualitative study was conducted to identify the causes of unsafe abortion in Iran from the standpoint of three groups of experts, women with a history of abortion or unwanted pregnancy and service providers. PATIENTS AND METH...

Introduction: In Iran little attention has been paid to the important role of husband’s support in promoting maternal health. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived social support from family in pregnant women and pregnancy-related factors. Methods: The study included 358 postpartum women in the second half of the year 2014 in Fatemiyeh Hospital in Shahroud, North Ea...

Although fertility decline often correlates with improvements in socioeconomic conditions, many demographers have found flaws in demographic transition theories that depend on changes in distal factors such as increased wealth or education. Human beings worldwide engage in sexual intercourse much more frequently than is needed to conceive the number of children they want, and for women who do n...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate changes in productivity, technical efficiency and technology across the economic sectors during the period 1985-2006. We also seek to identify the turning points for productivity growth to see whether it was accompanied by technological change and/or technical efficiency. For estimating economic growth, aggregate production function is used. We find that...

background: unwanted pregnancy induces adverse attitudes regarding pregnancy which is a natural event by increasing mental and socio-economic difficulties. insufficient maternal care and low adjustment to parental role are known as consequences of unwanted pregnancy. perceived social support and self-efficacy in pregnancy influence health related behaviors and may play a crucial role in adaptat...