The South African Law Reform Commission is currently canvassing views on a potential single marriage statute that would reconcile the several enactments regulating in Africa. This comment considers implications of proposed Bill for regulation customary marriages. It argues definition / life partnership may be under-inclusive and must expanded to included polygamous – rather than polygynous rela...

Marriage is a human right that protected by laws and regulations, the role of state in regulating occurrence marriage. The marriage occurs causes series legal relationships occur both before after One objects relationship existence marital property. In this study using normative research as well law approach conceptual approach. This will examine more deeply about position assets from results s...

consanguineous marriages are traditionally favoured in most of asian and african countries especially in the muslim countries. however, it is apparent that these kinds of marriage are a major factor of some genetic disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. although there is a long history of consanguineous marriage in iran, the information on its prevalence is too poor. the aim of ...

In Germany the life satisfaction of those in first marriages traces the following average course. Starting from a baseline of life satisfaction in noncohabiting years one or more years prior to marriage, those who cohabit prior to marriage have an increase in life satisfaction significantly above the baseline. In the year of marriage and that immediately following, the life satisfaction of thos...

Aims and Objectives: The objective of the present study is to assess the genetic composition of the two subgroups of Salis and the extent of genetic differentiation among them with the help of various demographic and genetic variables. Materials and Methods: A total of 520 couples belonging to two sub-groups namely, Padmasalis and Pattusalis residing in and around Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram...

This study examines the effects of spouses’ prior marital status and socio-demographic characteristics on the risk of divorce of 1762 Muslim marriages recorded in 1982-83 in Teknaf, Bangladesh. Grooms' prior marital status was categorized into never married, divorced, widowed or polygynous (already cohabiting with one or more wives) and brides’ prior marital status was categorized into never ma...

The best known example of oblique marriage, i.e. marriage between an ego and an alter in adjacent genealogical levels, involves the marriage of a man with his ZD, to whom he himself is MB. There are a number of discussions of this phenomenon (Rivière 1969, Lavé 1966, Good 1980; also Parkin 1997: 106-8), but in general it is probably best interpreted as a variant of bilateral cross-cousin marria...

Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable immigrants married to foreign-born spou...

The effects of consanguineous marriages in various isonymic groups have been investigated. The families like Qureshi, Malik, Jats and Sheikh show higher live-births, prenatal and postnatal loss, and percentage pregnancies in the first cousin and 'all related' parental relationships compared to other groups. Syed, Butt, and Mughals show higher percentage of prenatal and postnatal loss, livebirth...