Objective. The objective of this article is to examine the trend in attitudes toward gay marriage through the analysis of data from the General Social Survey. Methods. Using linear decomposition techniques, I explain the change in attitudes toward gay marriage from 1988 to 2006. Results. Attitudes significantly liberalized over time; 71 percent opposed gay marriage in 1988, but by 2006, this fi...

This article presents an overview of marriage patterns in East Asia. Globally, marriage patterns are changing. In East Asia, cultural patterns are slowing the changes in attitude toward marriage that are occurring in the West. There are implications of changing attitudes for government planners. This issue of Asia-Pacific Population and Policy is based on a series of studies of marriage and...

In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled ones. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage market penalty for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the penalty has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We propose a theoretical model in which the (negative) social ...

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...

this study was designed by the goal of investigating the attitudes toward childbearing, with an emphasis on lifestyle factors among pre- marriage women referring to health care networks have been conducted in tehran. for the purpose of research, survey and questionnaires were used. according to the statistical society ,384 women were selected as sample in tehran. the theoretical framework of th...

Five decades ago, Inglehart for the first time described and explained an unprecedented transformation of political cultures in advanced industrial societies, which he called “silent revolution.” It was characterized by emergence those countries postmaterialist values as result a sustained period economic growth, profound impact on people’s attitudes behavior. As China has experienced extraordi...

pre-marriage couples` fertility attitude following recent childbearing persuasive policies in iran farrokh-eslamlou hr , vahabzadeh z *, moeini sr ,moghaddam tabrizi f received: 5 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013 abstract background & aims: following a phenomenal fertility decline during recent two decades in iran, the childbearing persuasive policy has been implemented. the goals of this stu...

Although an emerging body of research has examined lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults’ attitudes and feelings about marriage, very little research has explored how their offspring view marriage. The current exploratory, qualitative, interview-based study of 35 adolescents and emerging adults (ages 15-28 years; mean age = 21 years) with LGB parents examines their attitudes about and desire ...