In this article, the author focuses on the speculative literalism and typologism in current scholarship to construct a taken-for-granted view, taking issue especially with many points raised in the literature on the subject that have associated fertility rates in Albania more closely with the existence of patriarchal cultural traits. This leads the author to argue that the specific rationale fo...


 This study focuses on the impact of early marriage communication patterns parents and children which aims to investigate between children, used by especially in Bojong Indah Village. The method this is qualitative, conducting direct observations, face-to-face interviews with informants online through WhatsApp social media. explains that there are 3 who marry Village, namely: permissive (...

Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. She is also a Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, and Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Robert A. Pollak is the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, ...

According to Laub and Sampson (2003), desistance from crime is made possible by “knifing off”—“offenders desist in response to structurally induced turning points that serve as the catalyst for sustaining long-term behavioral change” (p. 149). What turning points create are new situations that allow individuals to knife off the past, in part, by changing those routine activity patterns that led...

The present study was conducted in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The aim of research study was to assess the changing Family Composition, Structure and Practices in urban area of Kanpur City. Purposively 80 families of middle socioeconomic strata were selected for the study. A survey was conducted using a selfstructured questionnaire with close ended questions, to collect the data regarding...

The standard Beckerian model of spousal matching in the marriage market can be used to investigate marriage patterns under static conditions. However, modern marriage markets are characterized by high turnover, whereby many individuals divorce and remarry. We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting, divorce and remarriage, under various assumptions about spousal commitment leve...

Introduction The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the prevalence of early marriage has reportedly increased among displaced Syrian families. This study explores the underlying factors contributing to child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the goal of informing community-based strategies to address the issue. Methods In July-A...

BACKGROUND While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Russia and Eastern Europe, few have focused on attitudes and norms regarding marriage and cohabitation. In Russia cohabitation has risen sharply in the last decades, but recently its level has stabilized and even decreased slightly. OBJECTIVE We intend to highlight gender and educational differences in per...

BACKGROUND In the US and UK, more Black men are married to White women than vice versa and there are more White men married to Asian women than vice versa. Models of interracial marriage, based on the exchange of racial status for other capital, cannot explain these asymmetries. A new explanation is offered based on the relative perceived facial attractiveness of the different race-by-gender gr...

BACKGROUND/AIM Why has the apparently high rate of cousin marriage among Bradford Pakistanis been sustained, 50 years since Pakistani migration to Britain began? METHODS A review of the anthropological literature on Pakistani migration and settlement, British Pakistani marriage patterns and the phenomenon of transnational marriage. RESULTS British Pakistanis are diverse in regional origins ...