Following the era of the ‘golden age of marriage’ and the baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s, marriage has declined in importance, and its role as the main institution on which family relations are built has been eroded across Europe. Union formation most often takes place without a marriage. Family and living arrangements are currently heterogeneous across Europe, but all countries seem to be ma...

Marriages among the Sikh minority of the Districts of Swat, Bunair and Shangla (NWFP, Pakistan) were studied where the frequency of consanguineous marriages was found to be 21%. Marriages with distant relatives were 29.4% in the population. The inbreeding coefficient for the population was calculated to be 0.0127. Only three types of first cousin marriages (MSD, MBD and FSD) were recorded. Marr...

The primary use of frozen semen has been for the treatment of male infertility, in which case a 'donor's' semen may be used for insemination independently of time and place. An increase in demand for semen by infertile couples, who represent about 30 per cent of all marriages in the United States, was a contributing factor to the rapid growth of commercial semen banking. Another factor was the ...

Meckel Gruber syndrome is an uncommon, lethal, autosomal recessive disorder, associated consistently with polycystic kidneys, posterior encephalocoele and polydactly. We report three cases in non-consanguineous marriages, suggesting that the single gene defect occurs more commonly in non-consanguineous marriages than mutant genes associated with other autosomal recessive disorders that are usua...

It is well known that when the Census Act, 1871, was passing through the House of Commons, an attempt was made by Sir J. Lubbock, Dr Playfair, and others, to have a question inserted with respect to the prevalence of cousin marriages, under the idea that when we were in possession of such statistics we should be able to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion as to whether these marriages are, as h...

This paper presents a revised version of arguments published Wachter (1992), "Variabilité aleatoire des phénomènes démographiques : enseignements des séries paroissiales de Wrigley et Schofield" which appeared in Modèles de la démographie historique, edited by Alain Blum, No"el Bonneuil, and Didier Blanchet, Congrès et Coll oques 11, Institut National d’Études Démographiques, Presses Universita...

Marriages arranged to support political alliances between Hellenistic kingdoms were a symbol of peace dynasties. These marriages especially applied the two important world, Seleucid and Ptolemaic With diplomatic marriages, aimed make process permanent. In text that will come into effect after Second Syrian War (260-253 BC) kingdoms, marriage be realized these dynasties was reflected in treaty K...

The purpose of this research is to find out how the juridical review article 4 paragraph (1) law no. 1 1974 concerning Marriage regarding efforts obtain a marriage certificate and what causes by married husbands without going through court approval. Marriages that often occur, namely when marriages are established between men women who still virgins in secret or unregistered marriages, other wo...