Marriage is a social system through which a man and woman come closer to each other and start living together to fulfil certain social and personal needs. Marriage is one of the most important events of life affecting physical status as well as psychiae of an individual. It not only serves to satisfy the fundamental biological need of sexual gratification of the individual through a socially ac...

We examined the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Omani adolescents with regard to reproductive health in a nationally representative secondary school-based sample of 1670 boys and 1675 girls. Through a self-administrated questionnaire the adolescents were asked about puberty, marriage, birth spacing and AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. Only half of the sample knew the changes at p...

It is a long-standing principle in anthropology, sociology but also economics, that there are strong social and material incentives for people to marry or partner on the basis of social similarity, thus encouraging equality within partnerships but social inequality in the distribution of education, income, or other characteristics. It has been argued, however, that marriage is becoming less hom...

OBJECTIVES Complex and diverse factors are related to reproductive health (RH) behavior among adolescents according to the social and cultural context of each countries. This study examined the prevalence of active RH and factors related to active RH behavior among Indonesian adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,040 of students who were selected through a multi-s...

the study of cognition and attitudes toward family life and sex, particularly among the young population, is one of the important areas of health behavior. this study attempts to find the degree of knowledge and attitudes of the female students of teheran university. the findings reveal that although the girls under the study expressed some attitudes towards family life not common in the tradit...

Abstract Using data from various sources, this paper discusses the recently documented below replacement level fertility in India context of universality marriage girls, most which are arranged by parents, and increase their mean age at marriage, mainly due to decrease child marriage. There is virtually no divorce rate, cohabitation, or voluntary childlessness, except for some anecdotal evidenc...

The subject of this paper involves the attitudes student population in Republic Srpska about marriage, family and parenthood. Changes domain modern society directly affect not only everyday lives individuals, but also as a whole. Negative demographic trends, structural problems society, well spread acceptance value orientations from West changes marriage our society. This analyses data survey y...

We determined the association of demographic, behavioral, and structural factors with risk HIV exposure through heterosexual contact among Black men in Ottawa (n=210) Windsor (n=156), Ontario. applied hierarchical linear regression model analysis. Mean scores were (12.08±8.42) (17.16±11.80) (Scale = 48). Age, marriage, employment, masculinity, condom attitudes statistically significant (p <0...

Based on five studies with a total of 993 married, heterosexual male participants, we found that marriage structure has important implications for attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to gender among heterosexual married men in the workplace. Specifically, men in traditional marriages—married to women who are not employed—disfavor women in the workplace and are more likely than the average...