According to recent census data, approximately 50% of first marriages end in divorce, one of life's most stressful events. Even for those marriages that do not end in divorce, many are characterized by unhappiness. For example, it has been estimated that approximately 20% of all married couples experience marital distress, or discontent with their marriage, at any given time. Despite the risk a...

Arranged marriage is where parents choose marital partners for their children. It is a norm in many parts of Asia and Middle East. A marriage is said to be consanguineous where the marriages are solemnized among persons with close biological relations. There is considerable overlap in arranged and consanguineous marriages with many cultures adopting both practices. Recent studies showed that th...

This article examines the intersection of music and literature by taking Malaysian musical performance song cycles as examples. The term, cycles, is often used in musico-literary studies usually associated with Cyrus Hamlin his definition it arrangements reinterpretations well-established literary narratives. By incorporating poetry analysis interviews Razak Abdul Aziz concerning 10 Pantun Sett...

In many regions of Asia and Africa, consanguineous marriages currently account for approximately 20 to 50% of all unions, and preliminary observations indicate that migrants from these areas continue to contract marriages with close relatives when resident in North America and Western Europe. Consanguinity is associated with increased gross fertility, due at least in part to younger maternal ag...

We provide algorithms guaranteeing high levels of privacy by computing uniformly random solutions to stable marriages problems. We also provide efficient algorithms extracting a nonuniformly random solution and guaranteeing t-privacy for any threshold t. The most private solution is expensive and is based on a distributed/shared CSP model of the problem. The most efficient version is based on r...

This study developed a marital typology based on a nonrandom, national sample of 415 African-American couples who took the Enriching Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness (ENRICH) marital assessment inventory. Five types of African-American marriages were identified through cluster analysis using the positive couple agreement (PCA) scores in 10 relationship domains. Relationships bet...

The article attempts to unpack the ambivalence and benefits of commuter marriages. study applied a qualitative paradigm, as well approach investigate 17 participants between ages 30 52 (13 women 4 men), various occupations including bankers, civil/public servants, businessmen women, lecturers, lawyers, teachers, managers private organisations politicians, sales representatives, medical doctors....

It is well known that when the Census Act, 1871, was passing through the House of Commons, an attempt was made by Sir J. Lubbock, Dr Playfair, and others, to have a question inserted with respect to the prevalence of cousin marriages, under the idea that when we were in possession of such statistics we should be able to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion as to whether these marriages are, as h...