This paper examines the marriage tax paid by couples in 2000 using the U.S. Census data from that year. The U.S. Census data allows the study to focus on cohabiting and married couples, and ignore individuals, to overcome the inaccuracies that can result when the income of a potential spouse for an individual must be estimated. The marriage tax for couples is calculated and examined. Then, the ...

In marriage, men obtain and women surrender parental rights because: (i) by default, an unmarried woman giving birth is the child’s only known parent and sole custodian; (ii) a married mother shares custody with her husband and the presumed father; (iii) custody allocation in marriage is fixed; (iv) private contracts on rights over children amount to trade in children and have limited legal val...

This study analyses The Rural Lass by Catherine Jemmat (1714-66); the poem will shine a new light on feminist agenda conveyed through Jemmat’s views persona of rural lass linking lass’ own experience with marriage. Challenges in patriarchal society among female poets early ages and before twenty-first century deserve appreciation for their contributions to literature. author illustrate how nego...

The quality of spouse a woman is willing to marry varies significantly over her lifecycle, first increasing rapidly then falling more slowly as she ages. Men have a similar but less pronounced pattern. We document this and other facts on the quality of chosen spouses depending on the age of marriage. We then interpret these facts in the framework of a non-stationary sequential search model, whi...

objectives: talking about needs, it means to consider the reasons of human behavior. because such behavior starts with one or several needs which will cause to develop different societies according to the degree of civilization, and also social-cultural factors treat differently with blinds, so these different circumstances can create different needs and motivation for them. methods: on this ba...

The following case appears worthy of being recorded :?A. B., set. 21, enjoyed good health up to her marriage last December. Three months after marriage she had an abortion at two and a half months. During this pregnancy there were no symptoms worthy of note. After one menstrual period she conceived again. About the fourth month she noticed swelling of the feet, which gradually increased until s...

Childless marriage has exercised the medical profession for centuries, but has hardly begun to interest the social scientist. For novelists and playwrights it has proved intrinsically fascinating. Nigel Balchin, for example, has written more than one compelling account of what can happen when the stresses inseparable from any marriage have to be contained within the two-person relationship. In ...

Mrs ZB is a 37-year-old woman who was admitted to the gynecologic ward of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, with excessive vomiting and irregular bleeding per vaginum following amenorrhea of 13 weeks. There was no passage of vesicles, no cough. She was a fifth gravida with history of two previous molar pregnancies. There was a family history of molar gestation in two of her sibling...