Africa is one continent with several worlds. Africa is home to innumerable tribes, ethnic and social groups, some representing very large populations consisting of millions of people, others are smaller groups of a few thousand. All these tribes and groups have cultures which are different, but represent the mosaic of cultural diversity of Africa. When considering any particular issue partainin...

The purpose of this matched case-control study was to investigate the social correlates of primary infertility among females aged 35 years or less. The study was conducted in the Clinics of Samarkand Medical Institute, Uzbekistan, among 120 infertile and 120 healthy women matched by age, residential area, and occupation from January to June 2009. Data were collected by face-to-face interviews u...

Contemporary social and medical changes – such as the rising divorce rates and rates of subsequent remarriage, the introduction of new fertility techniques and rising longevity – trigger public debates about kinship, nature and culture. At the same time, ‘ the master narrative ’ telling how kinship declined in the course of modernization has been largely rejected by historians. Now, however, ‘ ...

This study examined profiles of nonresidential father engagement (i.e., support to the adolescent, contact frequency, remarriage, relocation, and interparental conflict) with their adolescent children (N = 156) 6 to 8 years following divorce and the prospective relation between these profiles and the psychosocial functioning of their offspring, 9 years later. Parental divorce occurred during la...

The standard Beckerian model of spousal matching in the marriage market can be used to investigate marriage patterns under static conditions. However, modern marriage markets are characterized by high turnover, whereby many individuals divorce and remarry. We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting, divorce and remarriage, under various assumptions about spousal commitment leve...

Personality measurements for ascendancy, emotional stability, responsibility, sociability, and self-esteem were compared across birth order categories. Undergraduates (N = 535 total) reported whether they were the eldest, middle, or youngest children of their families, only children, or of inconsistent birth order due to parents’ remarriage. ANOVA did not support any significant effects for the...