Türkiye’de yaşanan sosyo-ekonomik dönüşümden en fazla etkilenen kurumların başında aile gelmektedir. Aile kurmanın ilk aşaması olan evlilik de bu süreçten etkilenmektedir. Dünyadaki gelişmelere paralel olarak evlenme yaşının yükselmesi, bekâr kalma, dışı cinsellik, alternatif birlikteliklerin yaygın hale gelmesi gibi durumlar evliliğe ilişkin tutumların değiştiğini düşündürmektedir. Bununla bir...

The rise in marital fertility in East Asian societies with very low fertility has been reported through analyses using the age-specific marital fertility rate (AMFR). Though the measure is often considered related to the average number of children married women have (CMF), we demonstrated that such an interpretation is often erroneous (AMFR problem) and valid only under limited conditions in mo...

Cohabitation and marriage in the United States are converging relationships for those cohabiters who eventually marry. Using the “National Survey of Families and Households” and the “National Survey of Family Growth” as data sources, this dissertation examines trends over time in cohabitation and the types of people who cohabit before marriage, differences in behavior across relationship stages...

As the divorce rate increased through the 1970s, the policy climate for divorce also changed dramatically, raising the question of whether the secular trends in divorce were influenced by these policy changes or vice versa. One such policy change, passed in late 1977 in recognition of falling marriage durations, entitled divorced persons to claim auxiliary Social Security benefits on their ex-s...

Theorists have long maintained that people react to major life events but then eventually return to a setpoint of subjective well-being. Yet prior research is inconclusive regarding the extent of interindividual variability. Recent theoretical models suggest that there should be heterogeneity in long-term stress responding (Bonanno, 2004; Muthén & Muthén, 2000). To test this idea, we used laten...

Substantial family and work macro-level change has been occurring in Japan. Examples include a decline in the availability of jobs that afford lifetime protection against unemployment, an increase in jobs that do not carry benefits such as a pension, an increase in age at marriage and at first birth, and an increase in marital dissolution. Using life history data from the 2000 National Survey o...

Having to marry and the right attitude and proper criteria, the most important issue for having a healthy life. Therefore, it seems appropriate attitudes toward marriage and family life at the beginning of an important and necessary issue of the life. In order to clarify the meaning of marriage for young could turn into something easy. Perhaps having the right attitude in the context of marriag...