Abstract
Background
The link between marital status and health differences has long been a topic of debate. The substantial research on marriage and health has been conducted under two important ...hypotheses: marital protection and marriage selection. While the majority of evidence on the marriage-health relationship using these hypotheses comes from developed countries, there is a lack of evidence from Asia, particularly from India.
Objectives
The current study examines theoretical frameworks of marriage i.e., marital protection and marriage selection in the Indian setting concurrently, bringing substantial empirical evidence to explore the link between marriage and health, considering this subject in the context of self-reported health (SRH). Secondly, this study will aid in investigating age and gender differences in marriage and health.
Methods
Using the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE), a cohort study of individuals aged 50 years and older with a small section of individuals aged 18 to 49 for comparative reasons, the present study population was 25 years and above individuals with complete marital information. Logistic regressions were employed to explore the connection between marital status and self-reported health. In the marriage protection hypothesis, the follow-up poor SRH was the dependent variable, whereas the initial unmarried status was the independent variable. For the marriage selection effects, initial poor SRH as the independent variable and follow-up unmarried status as the dependent variable had considered.
Results
Examining the marital protection hypothesis, the initial unmarried status (OR: 2.14; CI at 95%: 1.17, 3.92) was associated with the followed-up SRH transition from good to poor between 2007 and 2015 for young men, while initial unmarried status was linked with a lower likelihood of stable good SRH and a higher likelihood of stable poor SRH status across all age categories among women. Focusing on the marriage selection hypothesis, among young men, a significant association exists between the initial poor SRH and departure in marital status from married to unmarried. Young women with initial poor SRH (OR: 0.68; CI at 95%: 0.40, 1.00) had lower odds of stable married. In comparison, women with initially poor SRH, irrespective of age, were more likely to have higher odds of being stably unmarried.
Conclusion
Marriage indeed protects health. There are also shreds of evidence on health-selected marital status in India. Taken together, the aspect of marital protection or marriage selection is gender and age-specific in India. The findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between marriage and health, which may have significant implications for health-related public policies aimed at unmarried women.
Justice, relationship quality, and sacredness are interconnected facets in the discussion of marriage as a legal, social, and religious institution. Professional interactions with couples, however, ...are often allocated to specialized individuals: clergy in marital preparation programs and wedding ceremonies, counselors during marital challenges, or lawyers in divorce proceedings. This study explores how cultural and societal values influence the attitudes of such professionals toward marriage. In this work, 172 German lawyers, counselors, and Christian clergy answered an online survey. Results from statistical analysis revealed that attitudes differed significantly between professions, denominations, and genders. This article discusses these differences and how interdisciplinary collaboration may benefit couples during marriage, divorce, and remarriage.
Contemporary Adlerian Family Counseling Devlin, James M.; Birkey, Janet; Smith, Jade
The Family journal (Alexandria, Va.),
04/2024, Letnik:
32, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The following theoretical article presents a contemporary Adlerian Family Counseling model, which describes the salient elements of Adlerian Family Counseling as well as its implications for ...marriage, family, and couple counselors. The authors of the article cover areas of Adlerian Family Counseling and its integration into family systems. Specifically, the article represents contemporary Adlerian Counseling and its application to family systems as well as working with diverse family and couples’ contemporary issues. Lastly, the article pays special attention to working with cultural and LGBTQIA + areas of marriage, family, and relational counseling.
This study examines the idea that attitudes toward marriage are liberalizing in the US in the face of federal recognition of same-sex marriage legislation by examining attitudes toward conventional ...marriage ideals, same-sex marriage, and polyamorous marriage. It draws on a sample of liberal arts college students (
n
= 330) in the southeastern United States as a representation of a cohort more flexible to change and greater social tolerance. Findings indicate shifts away from conventional marriage and toward marriage as more inclusive of same-sex couples. At the same time, less than half support polyamorous marriage. Unsurprisingly, religious students are more likely to support conventional marriage ideals and less likely to support same-sex marriage and students with conservative political ideology are less likely to support same-sex marriage or polyamorous marriage. In particular, the negative impact of political ideology on these attitudes is stronger for men and straight students. Women are more likely than men to support same-sex marriage. LGBQ students are less likely to support conventional views of marriage and more likely to support polyamorous marriage than heterosexual students. While college students today have entered adulthood in the age of marriage equality, and are accepting of same-sex unions, students indicate more mixed feelings about what marriage encompasses, the value of marriage, and whether to support polyamorous marriage.
This study explores how changes in sibship composition associated with fertility decline may, in conjunction with entrenched family norms and expectations associated with specific sibship positions, ...impact marriage rates and further reduce fertility. We evaluate this possibility by focusing on Japan, a society characterized by half a century of below-replacement fertility and widely shared family norms that associate eldest (male) children with specific family obligations. Harmonic mean models allow us to quantify the contribution of changes in both marriage market composition with respect to sibship position and sibship-specific pairing propensities to the observed decline in marriage rates between 1980 and 2010. One important finding is that marriage propensities are lower for those pairings involving men and women whose sibship position signals a higher potential of caregiving obligations, especially only-children. Another is that changes in marriage propensities, rather than changing sibship composition, explain most of the observed decline in marriage rates. We also found that marriage propensity changes mitigate the impact of the changing sibship composition to some extent. However, the limited contribution of changing sibship composition to the decline in first-marriage rates provides little support for a self-reinforcing fertility decline via the relationship between changing sibship composition and marriage behavior.
This paper develops a new model for empirically analyzing dynamic matching in the marriage market and then applies that model to recent changes in the U.S. marriage distribution. Its primary ...objective is to estimate gains by age from being married today (till death of at least one spouse) relative to remaining single for that same time period. An empirical methodology that relies on the model's equilibrium outcomes identifies the marriage gains using a single cross-section of observed aggregate matches. This behavioral dynamic model rationalizes a new marriage matching function. The model also solves the inverse problem of computing the vector of aggregate marriages, given a new distribution of available single individuals and estimated preferences. Finally, this paper develops a simple test of the model's empirical validity. Using aggregate data of new marriages and available single men and women in the United States over two decades from 1970 to 1990,I investigate the changes in marriage gains over this period.
Globally, expanding women's educational opportunities is promoted as an effective strategy for their empowerment. While women's access to education in Bangladesh has increased in recent years, little ...is known about their participation in educational activities after marriage. Historically, local gender norms expect women to marry at an early age, perform domestic labor, and discontinue educational activities in adulthood. In this study, twenty-four married women and twenty-five married men ages 15-49 were interviewed about women's experiences with post-marital education in Matlab. Results showed that husbands and wives acted within the bounds of persistent, classic patriarchal norms to seek or inhibit access to education within marriage. Despite increases in women's primary and secondary school graduation rates in Bangladesh, this study suggests that women still face barriers to access to educational opportunities and understanding these limitations is crucial to advancing women's pathways to economic and overall empowerment in Bangladesh.
HIGHLIGHTS
Married women encounter numerous barriers to education in Matlab, Bangladesh.
Married couples strategize to negotiate wives' aspiration to pursue education.
Married men view wives' post-marital education unfavorably as a means to employment.
Women self-restrict education, considering lack of social and familial endorsement.
Engaging husbands in research and programs to advance women's education is needed.
Marriage is a human right that is protected by laws and regulations, the role of the state in regulating the occurrence of marriage. The marriage that occurs causes a series of legal relationships ...that occur both before and after the marriage. One of the objects of the legal relationship is the existence of marital property. In this study using normative research as well as a law approach and a conceptual approach. This study will examine more deeply about the position of assets from the results of sirri marriages in the legal perspective in Indonesia. If their marriage is legal then the consequences of their marital property can also be enjoyed by husband and wife so that the opposite applies if the marriage is not valid then their marital property will not benefit them. . Sirri (secret) marriages, or often sirri marriages, are known to those who are Muslim. Sirri marriages are unregistered marriages. In the Compilation of Islamic Law (KHI) the rules for those who are Muslim. Also do not know sirri marriage. KHI also regulates the obligation to register marriages, in addition to fulfilling the pillars and requirements of marriage.
Objective
This article examines how women's autonomy in marriage choices influences the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence in mainland China.
Methods
An original survey was ...administered to married women in Beijing and Chengdu (N = 1646). Seemingly unrelated regression models accounting for the association between violence perpetration and victimization were conducted.
Results
Chinese women's experiences of domestic violence in current marriages were associated with their exposure to interparental violence during childhood. Compared to women with no autonomy in deciding about their marriages, women with autonomy were less likely to show intergenerational transmission of domestic violence.
Conclusion
Women's rising autonomy disrupts the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence. The findings highlight the importance of designing relevant policies to further protect and improve women's autonomy in marriage decisions to avoid domestic violence.
Married couples who do mixed marriages often did not pay attention to the legal consequences of such act, especially to joint property. In order to protect themselves personally and so that in the ...future the legal consequences of a legal act can be accounted for by each party so that it does not involve their assets, the couple who is in a mixed marriage should make a marriage agreement. The Marriage Agreement prior to the Constitutional Court Decision Number 69/PUU-XIII/2015, in accordance with Article 29 paragraph (1) of the Marriage Law can only be made at or before the marriage takes place. The author conducted a research on the case with a normative juridical research type and the nature of the research was descriptive-analytic. Based on the results of the study, the author concludes that the legal implications of the cancellation of the Marriage Agreement cause as from the beginning there was never an agreement. Therefore, in such mixed marriages, there are joint assets that must be divided between husband and wife after the marriage ends due to divorce, namely 50% (fifty percent) or half of the joint property, respectively
