We used data from the study of Marital Instability Over the Life Course to examine links between divorce in the grandparent generation and outcomes in the grandchild generation (N = 691). Divorce in the first generation (G1) was associated with lower education, more marital discord, weaker ties with mothers, and weaker ties with fathers in the third generation (G3). These associations were medi...

This is an analysis of divorce trends in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. "Use was made of a case-control research design in which the social characteristics of all marriages which ended in divorce were compared with those of a random sample from the marriages which ended in widowhood. The author analyzed a group of 2,300 marriages contracted in The Hague from their...

background: spinal cord injury (sci) imposes a significant burden on the social and marital life. here, we assessed the divorce rate and changes in marital status among a sample of iranian individuals with sci. methods: referred patients to brain and spinal cord injury research center were invited to participate in this cross-sectional investigation. the main exclusion criteria were coincidenta...

In recent years, legislatures have imposed several types of guidelines restricting court discretion. Guidelines designed around ‘‘average’’ cases, however, can lead to problems for ‘‘nonaverage’’ situations. In the context of divorce, poorly designed child support guidelines may create an opportunity for a netwealth transfer in excess of the costs of children for ‘‘nonaverage’’ families and the...

Parental divorce is known to be associated with poor child health in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the great diversity in social and cultural practices, including marital ones, across the subcontinent likely yields substantial variation in the prevalence of divorce, which in turn could moderate its consequences for children. In this paper, we use Demographic and Health Survey data from 31 Africa...

Attitudes toward divorce are believed to play a critical role in marital quality and the probability of divorce later in life. They are traditionally understood to result from social, demographic and environmental factors, including personal experience in relationships, family values, religion and economic incentives. An alternative line of research suggests that genetically influenced psycholo...

One of the recent inquiries in the field of hadith studies is the investigation of transferred traditions and their causes and impacts on Shi‘i hadith circles. By exploring some traditions in the hadith collection of al-Shaykh al-Saduq and comparing the textual similarities and also the chain of transmitters, this research attempts to show that traditions of Jewish origin in the Shi‘i hadith ci...

the purpose of this study is to provide answers to two questions: attitude of the population of mashhad aged 18 to 65 towards divorce in 2004 and the factors affecting this attitude. the hypotheses of this study have been formed using the views of durkheim and the theoretical frameworks of functionalism. the study is based on the idea that higher education, conflict at home, attitude towards di...

background & aim : the health of women, as half of the world’s population and the foundation of families and societies, has played a significant role in securing and stabilizing of the health of families and societies. the increasing rate of divorce in iran caused us to perform this study aimed to explore the challenges of divorced women. methods & materials : this was a qualitative study which...