BACKGROUND Studies on Europe and the US indicate that marriage has been postponed, cohabitation has increased, and unions are more likely to dissolve. However, cross-national studies documenting these trends have typically studied each transition separately. OBJECTIVE This study aims to simultaneously capture these different partnership trends while examining heterogeneity within countries. Usi...

CONTEXT Ethiopia has been characterized by high population growth. Recent social and economic developments have the potential to alter reproductive patterns in the country. Some of these developments include sustained economic growth, urbanization, rapid growth in school enrollments, expansion of primary health care, and a rise in contraceptive access and use. In other national contexts, these ...

this research project has been conducted to analyze the trend of changes in marital interactions, conflict resolution styles and marital quality based on the marriage age and marriage duration among the married men and women in qazvin city. the research method is descriptive and trend analysis. 302 married people (151 women and 151 men) from five districts of qazvin were selected using the volu...