Etiology of infertility varies from region to region and from one population to another and even from one locality to another within the same population. Childlessness has serious demographic, social and health implications. Hence an attempt has been made to get some approximation about levels and patterns of infertility and childlessness in India by using National Family Health Survey-2 (1998-...

BACKGROUND In the US and UK, more Black men are married to White women than vice versa and there are more White men married to Asian women than vice versa. Models of interracial marriage, based on the exchange of racial status for other capital, cannot explain these asymmetries. A new explanation is offered based on the relative perceived facial attractiveness of the different race-by-gender gr...

BACKGROUND/AIM Why has the apparently high rate of cousin marriage among Bradford Pakistanis been sustained, 50 years since Pakistani migration to Britain began? METHODS A review of the anthropological literature on Pakistani migration and settlement, British Pakistani marriage patterns and the phenomenon of transnational marriage. RESULTS British Pakistanis are diverse in regional origins ...

determining marriage portion, more than reasonable amount, by spouses which is not in financial ability of husband, has got legal common problem. the husband is usually undertaken by this kind of marriage portion generally, where as the circumstances indicate that he dosen’t have enough capability to pay it and there is no reasonable possibility for his ability in the future as well. some autho...

the contract of marriage is the most important contract which a person may conclude during his or her life. as women are vulnerable and their commitment to the marriage is very tight, iranian legislator should protect women on the conclusion of marriage contracts in three stages; before age of puberty by prohibiting any marriage, after age of puberty but before attaining majority by judicial su...

We show how simple rules shared by actors acting somewhat independently and with local ratherthan complete global information can nonetheless generate coherent global structures. In the caseof dual organization, from analysis of actual marriage networks and genealogical linkages, wefind many ethnographic instances where two-sided networks and marriage choices go unnoticedby ethn...