Cohabiting unions increasingly involve children, either born during the union and/or from prior relationships (i.e., stepchildren). Drawing from arguments about the institutionalization of cohabitation and stepfamilies as well as the family systems perspective, this paper examines dissolution and marriage risks among women's cohabiting unions by stepfamily status, configuration (which partner h...

The purpose of the study was to examine how young adults' beliefs about marriage related to past, self-reported family-of-origin variables, including parental marriage characteristics and parental support. A sample of 527 college students completed a survey about their beliefs about marriage and the nature of their family relationships while growing up. Parental variables differentially predict...

Fertility corresponds to additive component of the growth of a population. Human fertility is determined by all customs, morals and habits of social groups with regard to marital obligation and life. The main objective of this paper is to examine the causes of fertility among Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Tea-Tribes communities of Dibrugarh District, Assam. Does the extent of fertility ...

This report presents statistics on age at marriage, number of children ever born, length of interval between births, and expected completed family size according to indicators of women's participation in the U.S. labor force, such as employment, occupation, and earnings. The statistics, presented in tables, are based on personal interviews with a nationally representative sample of currently m...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of consanguineous marriage on male factor infertility in Lebanon, where rates of consanguineous marriage remain high (29.6% among Muslims, 16.5% among Christians). DESIGN Clinic-based, case-control study, using reproductive history, risk factor interview, and laboratory-based semen analysis. SETTING Two IVF clinics in Beirut, Lebanon, during an 8-month...

Trends and determinants of female marriage migration in contemporary China Hu Ying, Li Shuzhuo, Marcus W. Feldman (1 School of Public Management, Xi’an Jiao tong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China; 2 Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5020, USA) Abstract: With the rapid development of China’s economy, an increasing number of unmarried young women are leaving their home...

Respondents to a mail survey of a random sample (N = 424) of Clinical Members of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy provided information about their contexts of practice, use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and relationships with CAM providers. Consistent with both national trends and the experience of psychologists as reported in a similar survey, the res...