Customary marriage (nikāḥ ‘urfī)—non-official married life of a couple—is a new phenomenon increasingly spreading throughout the Arab world. Legal and social consequences of customary marriage have led many socio-jurisprudential scholars to forbid all its varieties. The strategy has, nevertheless, failed to restrain the spread of this type of marriage. In this paper, I argue that one f...

Despite its lack of 3-D reality presence, the Web has some particular capabilities which make it of great interest to the museum world. It is both a temporal and a spatial medium. It provides the opportunity to meld imagery, text and interactivity. And it provides for both individual as well as group (albeit distributed) experience. These attributes are similar to those offered by the museum ex...

Extensive data available from more than 30 years of research reveal that children raised by gay and lesbian parents have demonstrated resilience with regard to social, psychological, and sexual health despite economic and legal disparities and social stigma. Many studies have demonstrated that children's well-being is affected much more by their relationships with their parents, their parents' ...

Acculturation in families with parents having different cultures is a fascinating phenomenon. It worth investigating issue to be seen from type of intercultural marriage the family chooses and how children adapt their parents’ backgrounds. This study aims at analyzing types taking place Denpasar, capital city Bali province, Indonesia these face acculturation process. Twenty Denpasar city, exper...

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 authors describe Fairbairn's view of the personality as a system of parts of self and object in dynamic relation, formed in the context of dependent early relationships and replayed in the intensely intimate and physical relationship of marriage. Through Klein's concept of projective identification, a spouse finds lost parts of the self in the partner, where they may flourish and be reinteg...