The profession of psychotherapy is included in those occupations that are presumed to have a bi-directional “spillage” on the professional's personal Life. Theorizing that experiences and behaviors from people's occupations will affect behavior in life outside work, and the reverse, thirteen marriage and family therapists (MFTs) were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Responses ...

This longitudinal study identified factors of couples' marital friendship in the beginning months of marriage that predicted stability versus decline in marital satisfaction over the transition to parenthood. Newlywed couples (N = 130) were followed longitudinally for 6 years. Forty-three couples because parents, and 39 childless couples served as a control group. Couples were interviewed about...

This paper examines marriage market equilibrium when allocation is determined by bargaining in marriage rather than binding agreements between prospective spouses. We view sorting in the marriage market and allocation in marriage as a two-stage game in which prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, foresee the allocation that would emerge from bargaining in marriage, but are ...

Human Rights are those rights which inherent in our nature and without we cannot live as human beings. The sad fact remains that despite the guarantee of by Constitution Cameroon international treaties, female half humanity subject to distinctive continuous forms abuses, injustice violence well an enormous range legal disabilities discrimination. Our findings revealed most abuses against women ...

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at the beginning, the marriage portion or dowry was considered as the price for selling the wife to the husband. the marriage portion was changed its nature as a gift by the advent of the divine religions and codification of laws. in modern custom of iran, the islamic concept of marriage portion has been completely changed and is no more considered as a gift, but it is security in marriage and ...

meena alexander, a contemporary indian-american writer and a professor of english literature and women’s studies. the criticism of dr. alexander’s poetry and prose brings in many issues that draws upon poststructuralism and postcolonialism. to mention a few, the negotiation of fragmented identity, the problem of belonging, and the challenge of living in a female body are among her concerns. wha...

During the period of Regency England, a woman’s life was planned for her before she was born, and her place in society was defined by her marital status. Before she was married, she was her father’s daughter with a slim possibility of inheriting property. After she was married, legally she did not exist; she was subsumed into her husband with absolutely no legal, political, or financial rights....