To cite: Evrensel A, Tarhan N, Ceylan ME, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-207864 DESCRIPTION Three years ago, a 55-year-old man, a teacher, was involuntarily brought to our outpatient psychiatry clinic by his wife. He had agreed to be examined because of his wife’s divorce request. He had no symptoms and no insight about his condition ...

The article focuses on definitions of and beliefs about wife abuse among undergraduate social work students in Israel. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires. The vast majority of students in Study 1 acknowledged acts thought to constitute wife assault and disapproved of a husband's use of force against his wife. The majority of students in Study 2 did not justify wife abu...

PURPOSE To explore the perceptions of and attitudes toward violence and beliefs of contextual justification of wife abuse among Syrian medical and nursing students. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used. The Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Wife Abuse Questionnaire was used to collect data from a convenience sample of 621 medical and nursing students from three public unive...

there is no doubt in the existence of the right to imprisonment in the marriage (nikāḥ) for the wife. that is to say, the wife is entitled to refuse submission until receiving all her dowry in case it is urgent (mu‘ajjal). the question arises here as to what the extent of this right to imprisonment is. does it merely apply to specific submission or does it include general submission, as well? i...

Spousal correlations are known to have a number of physical and mental characteristics, among which general mental ability is one of the strongest. IQ tests have ordinarily been used in studies of assortative mating, but in neurocognitive tests, less frequently. In this study, we examined spousal correlations in 76 husband-wife pairs using a computerized neuropsychological test battery. Signifi...

Husbands and wives constitute genetically unrelated individuals living together, often sharing a common diet, and subjected to similar environmental stresses. Examination of resemblances in the dental caries experience (DMFT) in spouse pairs can contribute to an understanding of dental caries epidemiology in the adult (KLEIN, JADA 33: 735-743, 1946). In this study, individual husband and wife D...

DEVELOPMENT is about protection of human rights of the concerned populations. It pre-supposes active participation of the populace in the decision-making processes while social justice remains one of the most important and cherished goals of development. However, contradictions do remain as a result of various processes not only among nations at a global level, but also significantly within sec...

one of the issues in the field of inheritance is the inheritance of credential-right by the wife from the husband’s trades. unfortunately, iranian statute law has not specified this verdict, and article 445 of civil law merely states that: ‘each of the credentials, after death, is transferred to the heir.’ although the ruling is applicable to the mentioned article regarding the inheritance of c...

dowry or marriage portion is a property that a wife owns after marriage and the spouse is obliged to pay to his wife. since marriage portion rules are not explicitly stipulated in iranian civil law, the writer article makes an attempt to answer whether a third party other than the husband can be in doubted to undertake the responsibility of paying the dowry. therefore, in case of divorce if the...

wife's daily is one of the financial rightswhich is recognized in fiqh and laws of iran. this is specially mentioned in 3 articles _additional note on article 336 of the civil lawthe article 6 ofamendment to divorce lawfamily protection law 1391 article 29 ofhas refered that to the additional note on article 336 of civil lawaccording to this note, the wife, at any time during the marriage,...