The majority of countries in the world have laws setting minimum age marriage at 18 years old. This is a global legislative trend that intensified greatly 1990s. What explains this trend? To answer question, I conduct quantitative analyses factors influencing legislation 18. analyse time-series data for 167 from 1965 to 2015 examine which were early adopters legislation. Drawing on society theo...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the present study were to determine the magnitude and factors associated with sexual intimate partner violence (SIPV) in women presenting to tertiary-care hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS Five hundred women who presented to four tertiary-care hospitals to deliver were interviewed from September to December 2005. SIPV was assessed by using questions on sexua...

one of the modern phenomena in human societies is having children from a rented womb in which the woman who is owner of the womb, bears sperm of another person in her womb and after spending pregnancy period, delivers the newborn child to the couple owning the gamete on based on presigned contract. there are a few statements in the juridical laws of many countries among them iran concerning thi...

n the summer of 1998, the Wisconsin State legislature amended its child protection laws.' Under new child abuse provisions, Wisconsin judges can confine pregnant women who abuse alcohol or drugs for the duration of their pregnancies. South Dakota enacted similar legislation almost simultaneously. The South Dakota statute requires mandatory drug and alcohol treatment for pregnant women who abuse...

Volume 30, Number 4, July/August 1998 play an important role in teenage pregnancy. The U.S. Congress made the prevention of teenage pregnancies a major objective of the 1996 federal welfare reform law,3 which recommends that “the states and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws” as one way to achieve this end.4 As a result, states are reconsidering both the content...

A notable aspect of Africa’s struggle with its colonial legacies is the co-existence indigenous laws that emerged in agrarian settings state industrial settings. Given dissonance their origins, clashes frequently occur between traditionalists and change agents, especially over property succession rights women, girls, younger male children. Spurred by judicial handling these clashes, scholars ca...