Today, secret marriages are a known problem among Muslims, but discussions and debates avoided. People who unwilling to take on the responsibilities of marriage yet do not want commit adultery, one major sins in Islam, practice marriages. However, this leads deprivation rights for parties children born these unions. Some claim that legal justification is provided by view presence witnesses be m...

The author, basing on literature and her own experiences in conducting marital/couples, presents the indications and contraindications for this form of therapy for both recipients of the therapy and therapists. Insufficient motivation to change relationships and behaviours, the threat of divorce, violence, deep emotional and/or psychological disturbances in one or both spouses, the engagement o...

Chinese Muslims have actively maintained religious endogamy. However, no research has assessed the role of local residential context in individual Muslims’ marital choices, nor have sociologists examined the heterogeneity in individual Muslims’ responses to such contextual influences. Using Chinese census data between 2000 and 2005, this paper offers a first investigation of such micro– macro i...

Islam has set a marriage law comprehensively to ensure the survival of family institution by verifying rights and responsibilities spouses. also permits couples append any conditions (syarat) in contracts as long within Islamic law. However, Malaysia practice that approved merely on divorce which outlined Family Law. Accordingly, objective this study is analyst views majority scholars (fuqaha),...

Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals Both men and women wish to have a family and a rewarding career. In this paper, we show that the under-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young women’s marriage-timing decisions. Since investing in a highpowered career imposes time strain, it precludes early participation in the...

We show, that a simple generalization of the Deferred Acceptance Procedure with men proposing due to Gale and Shapley (1962), yields outcomes for a generalized marriage problem, which are necessarily stable. We also show, that any outcome of this procedure is Weakly Pareto Optimal for Men, i.e. there is no other outcome which all men prefer to an outcome of this procedure. In a final concluding...

We model asymmetric information arising from physician agency, and its effect on the design of payment and health care quantity. The physician-patient coalition aims to maximize a combination of physician profit and patient benefit. The degree of substitution between profit and patient benefit in the physician-patient coalition is the physician’s private information, as is the patient’s intrins...