In household surveys, husbands and wives who are asked the same set of survey questions often provide different responses. The levels concordance in responses to about owns assets makes decisions a may hold valuable information dynamics women’s well-being. These relationships be especially indicative South Asian context where couples reside joint households with husbands’ parents, resulting pow...

purpose: non-addict wives who are discordant with theirhusbands in substance use encounter many problems andexperience considerable stress in their life. in the present study weaimed to investigate the effectiveness of life skills instruction incoping skills of non-addict wives who were discordant with theirhusbands in substance use. materials and method: thirty women who did not use problem-fo...

BACKGROUND Age of marriage is a barrier to mother's health care around pregnancy and children health outcomes. OBJECTIVE We provide evidence on the health benefits of postponing early marriage among young wives (from age 10-14 to age 15-17) on women's health care and children's health for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Southwest Asia (SWA). METHODS We use data for 39 countries from the Demogr...

The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic (a global health emergency) following its ravaging spread and increasing death toll that led to the unprecedented multi-sectoral crisis collateral damage. These, non-discovery of reliable therapeutic medicines combined generate rising fears tension across globe. To cope with these realities, discourse participants devised humorous expressions create...

ôbjectives: the current study tested differences in depression, anxiety, and stress among ïranian wives with and without a history of spousal abuse. methods: the physically abused wives (n = 40) were among those who had been referred to a local forensic medical center. the control group (n = 40) comprised married women living in the same area of the city as the experimental group. the persian f...

Spouses' balancing of housework and leisure activities at home may affect their recovery from work. This paper reports on a study of everyday family life in which 30 dual-earner couples were tracked around their homes by researchers who recorded their locations and activities every 10 min. For women, the most frequently pursued activities at home were housework, communication, and leisure; husb...