the current study aims to compare the expectations and purpose of marriage of women and girls in shiraz. in this study, 180 participants (90 women and 90 girls) were selected to participate from the available population. the instruments to collect data were questionnaires and a structured interview. the participants completed the socio-demographic characteristics form and the marital attitude a...

on one hand having undergone many remarkable structural and value changes and on the other hand considering the disorganized and uncoordinated social condition of the subsystems, marriage is conceived as one of the prominent social problems. so, this paper seeks to explore the attitudes of unmarried youth towards marriage and its problematic nature. the results demonstrate that the youth's...

Iran's young population structure has been highlighted the importance of addressing youth issues more than ever. Marriage is one of the stages that youth pass in their life. Today, marriage has become a major concern of young people that review  and understanding of this area is considered as one of the tasks of social researchers. This study aimed to measure the attitude of unmarried male stud...

This paper outlines the extent to which the current young adult cohort in Argentina reports ties to the Catholic Church, and how these ties or lack thereof impact their attitudes towards gay marriage and abortion. I analyze data from 120 paper surveys distributed and collected in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This convenience sample was drawn among students of the private University of Belgrano and ...

Sexual health influences general well-being and the overall quality of life of all men and women. This study in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran, aimed to assess the level of knowledge of and attitudes towards sexual and reproductive health among adults. In a cross-sectional study in 2010, 276 men and 281 women were recruited at pre-marital counselling courses and completed a 33-item anonymous ...

We propose a typology of different meanings of cohabitation that combines cohabiters' intentions to marry with a general attitude toward marriage, using competing risk analyses to examine whether some cohabiters are more prone than others to marry or to separate. Using data (N = 1,258) from four waves of the German Family Panel (PAIRFAM) and a supplementary study (DEMODIFF), we compared eastern...

Premarital fertility is defined as fertility before the first marriage. In South Africa, in 1998, according to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), about 65% of women under age 25 had had a premarital birth and close to 39% of all births were premarital. Although the total fertility rate had decreased drastically (down to 2.9), trends showed that premarital fertility was increasing. We inve...