BACKGROUND Adolescents' problem behavior is considered as a syndrome and has been recognized in academic literature for a long time. Problem behavior consists of adolescents' harmful health habits and elements of psychological well-being. The frequent appearance of harmful health habits during adolescence might lead to problem behavior. Thus, problem behavior includes and describes the co-occur...

Institution of marriage is witnessed in every type of society around the world. It can be perceived as a legal contract, a religious rite and a social practice that varies by legal jurisdiction, religious doctrine and culture [1]. Irrespective to the type and culture, main objective of this social practice is to carry over traditional values, economic wealth and resources across generations. Ad...

BACKGROUND Marriage is a significant event in life-course of individuals, and creates a system that characterizes societal and economic structures. Marital patterns and dynamics over the years have changed a lot, with decreasing proportions of marriage, increased levels of divorce and co-habitation in developing countries. Although, such changes have been reported in African societies including...

Every Marriage in the Mandailing custom is not only an inner birth bond between a man and woman but there customary that has values must be adhered to. Marriage, sense of engagement, marriage legal consequences for law, which applies society question. The result this law occurs, example, presence application relationships are taste relatives (child relations, bachelors daughters) rasah tuha (re...

243. Watch Out! Syphilis Is Back – Case Series of Four Cases of Ocular syphilis Hesham Awadh, MD; Haresh Visweshwar, MD; Jacob Kilgore, MD and Kara Willenburg, MD; Internal Medicine, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Internal Medicine, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Medicine-Pediatrics, Marsha...

Wenyu Zhou, Michael Choi, Daciana Margineantu, Lilyana Margaretha, Jennifer Hesson, Christopher Cavanaugh, C Anthony Blau, Marshall S Horwitz, David Hockenbery*, Carol Ware* and Hannele Ruohola-Baker* H Ruohola-Baker Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Biochemistry, Universi...

Children’s well-being has become the focal consideration in legal and public policy debates regarding same-sex marriage. In this article, we critically examine and rebut the central moral argument made by opponents of same-sex marriage: that the state should not license any domestic arrangement other than “traditional marriage” because doing so would be detrimental to children’s well-being. Alt...

Existing theoretical and empirical research on dowries has difficulty accounting for the large changes in dowry levels observed in many countries over the past few decades. To explain trends in dowry levels in Bangladesh, we draw attention to an institutional feature of marriage contracts previously ignored in the literature: the mehr or traditional Islamic brideprice, which functions as a pren...