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Journal articles on the topic "Marriage-family relationships"
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Shavkatova, Shakhnoza Pulot qizi. "FAMILY, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS." Multidisciplinary Journal of Science and Technology 3, no. 1 (2023): 100–101. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8415337.
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The article describes the concepts of family and marriage and talks about the role and formation of the family in society. It is possible to learn feedback on the misunderstandings that arise in today's family relationships and ways to solve them. In addition, information is provided about the purpose of the marriage structure and the consequences of the marriage structure for the cause.
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Li, Fangyuan. "The Influence of Childhood Family Experiences on Women's Attitudes towards Marriage and Relationships." Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies 6, no. 5 (2024): 07–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jhsss.2024.6.5.2.
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This article aims to explore the influence of childhood family experiences on women's attitudes towards marriage and relationships. Through literature review and surveys based on examples, it analyzes the shaping of women's attitudes towards marriage and relationships by analyzing the family environment and the quality of parental marriage, as well as their influencing mechanisms. The research findings indicate that the family environment has a significant impact on attitudes towards marriage and relationships, with factors such as family structure and the quality of parental marriage closely related to women's attitudes towards marriage and relationships. Parents' marriage serves as a role model in shaping women's attitudes towards marriage and relationships, and family emotions play a crucial role in the transmission of attitudes towards marriage and relationships. This study supports the hypothesis of the influence of childhood family experiences on women's attitudes towards marriage and relationships, further confirming the importance of childhood family experiences in shaping individual attitudes towards marriage and relationships. The results of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind the formation of women's attitudes towards marriage and relationships, providing a theoretical basis for promoting healthy marital and relationship outcomes.
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Nelson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer Burn. "Forced Marriage and Family Relationships." Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 24 (April 29, 2025): 141–64. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201225248.
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Forced marriage was criminalised in Australia in 2013 and is considered a form of modern slavery and, less consistently, of family violence. Reports to date indicate that family members, particularly parents, are commonly responsible for coercing their children into marriage. Within a criminal framework, families are perpetrators, but this framing obscures complex family relationships, and the love, mutual care, and sense of duty that is often present within families affected. We interviewed eight women with experience of forced marriage and explored the histories of families as well as communication practices within families where coercion into marriage takes place. We reflect on what happens after an experience of coercion to marry, discussing both the resilience of the women as well as the reconfiguration of familial relationships that occurs when decision-making about marriage takes place. Interviews showed that ties between parents and their adult children can be enduring, even when difficult and requiring significant effort.
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С.Є., Сосніхіна. "ПСИХОЛОГІЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ СУЧАСНИХ ШЛЮБНО-СІМЕЙНИХ СТОСУНКІВ СТУДЕНТСЬКОЇ СІМ’Ї". Вісник Харківського національного педагогічного університету імені Г.С. Сковороди "Психологія", № 52 (15 січня 2016): 335–43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.44829.
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The article describes the concept of «family», «young family» and «students’ family». Features of a students’ family as a social institution are defined, psychological characteristics of an early maturity period are analyzed. The tendencies of contemporary models of marriage-family relationships are explored. Keywords:
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Kozhukhar, G. S. "The Quality of Interpersonal Relationships and Satisfaction with the Marriage of Young People." Social Psychology and Society 12, no. 1 (2021): 143–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/sps.2021120110.
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Objective. Analysis of the relationship between the assessment of interpersonal relations and satisfaction with marriage among young spouses in an official and civil marriage. Background. Against the background of the growing number of divorces, the need to analyze and understand the factors associated with marriage satisfaction among nowday’s youth is increasing in order to develop programs for overcoming difficulties in communication and maintaining relationships. Study design. The work examined the relationship between interpersonal relationships and marital satisfaction. The presence and nature of the relationship was checked through correlation, regression, factor analysis and automatic modeling (SPSS). The survey was conducted individually or in a group before the start of the pandemic. Participants. 108 young spouses, of which 30 couples, 48 respondents took part without their partners (44.44% of boys, 55.56% of girls) from 20 to 35 years old (M=28.6; SD=2.83). Measurements. Marriage Satisfaction Test Questionnaire (MAR); test questionnaire “Analysis of family anxiety” (ACT); Russian-language versions of the questionnaire “Scale of love and sympathy” and methods of researching partnerships Partnership Questionnaire (PFB); PEA questionnaire to identify the level of understanding, emotional attractiveness and authority (respect) of partners in marriage. Results. A complex system of relationships was revealed between the types of relationships between partners, indicators of family anxiety and satisfaction with marriage. Satisfaction with marriage increases in case of manifestation of love and sympathy in interpersonal relationships, experiences of emotional attraction between partners, respect and rare use of conflict behavior. Predictors of marital satisfaction have been identified, and a standard model of interpersonal relationships has been described, which allows predicting marital satisfaction at a young age. Main conclusion. There is a complex systemic relationship between the assessment of the quality of interpersonal relationships and the perception of satisfaction with marriage in young spouses and partners in a civil marriage, the knowledge of which allows you to create a model of the relationship system in order to predict the satisfaction with marriage of young people and prevent conflicts in relationships leading to their destruction.
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Çetintaş, Şeyda, and Halil Ekşi. "Spiritually Oriented Couple, Marriage and Family Therapies." Spiritual Psychology and Counseling 5, no. 1 (2020): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37898/spc.2020.5.1.096.
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In this review, it is aimed to focus on the integration of spirituality into family-oriented psychological help processes. To conceptualize the reflection of spirituality on the family system more clearly and to make sense of the spirituality-family relationship, the issue of spirituality was examined in specific processes such as in the relationship between parents and children, between spouses and in the transition process from adolescence to late age. The paradoxical nature of spirituality in family relationships was emphasized. For this purpose, spirituality was discussed both as a source of problems and as a source for solutions in family relations. Spiritually oriented psychological clinical help is an emerging field in Turkey. Seeing that spirituality is such an important issue in family relations and marriage, it is aimed to bring a family-focused approach to the spiritually oriented psychological help process. So, by addressing ethical issues, this review aims to offer a new perspective to field practitioners working with couples and families in clinical practice.
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Tripodi, Vera. "Famiglia e matrimonio minimo." SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA), no. 47 (October 2013): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/las2013-047004.
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The present article examines a recent proposal defended by Elizabeth Brake of a new and innovative form of marriage, that she labels «minimal marriage». According to Brake, the current marital laws are discriminatory as they are grounded on «heteronormativity», namely the idea that the dyadic heterosexual marriages are the family norm and the only model that is worth of social recognition, and «amatonormativity», the idea that the only dyadic intimate relationships involving romantic love are the nucleus of the family. In the first part of the article, I show that dyadic monogamous relationships are essentially a form of adult caring relationship. In the second part, I analyse how the reform of the marriage laws (in minimal terms proposed by Brake) allow other forms of caring relationship to receive social and institutional recognition.
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Crist, Jamie. "Modern family: Texas critical care clinicians need to know about informal marriage." Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 8, no. 34 (2020): 73–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.12746/swrccc.v8i34.623.
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Critical care clinicians are legally and ethically obligated to identify the appropriate surrogate decision-makers for patients who lack capacity and cannot make medical decisions for themselves. When the identification of the appropriate surrogate is streamlined, patient care is improved due to an uninterrupted and consistent plan of care that adheres to patient preferences. However, the process of identifying this “appropriate” person can be complex, especially as interpersonal relationships have evolved over time. One such modern family relationship is informal marriage, a Texas-specific relationship formerly known as “common-law” marriage. Though crucially important, this relationship is can difficult to recognize and frequently misunderstood.
 Utilizing a case study that illustrates the impact the existence of an informal marriage has on medical decision-making, this paper seeks to demystify informal marriage by outlining what makes a relationship an informal marriage and provide tools to assist clinicians with identifying it. In an age where non-traditional relationships are more common, Texas critical care clinicians should be familiar enough with informal marriage to recognize it in their patients in order to efficiently identify surrogates and therefore improve patient care.
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VYAZOVOVA, NATALIA V., and MARIYA S. KAMITSYNA. "DYNAMICS OF MARRIAGE SATISFACTION IN FAMILIES WITH DIFFERENT FAMILY LIFE EXPERIENCE." Psychological-Pedagogical Journal GAUDEAMUS 21, no. 1 (2022): 56–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-231x-2022-21-1-56-65.
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The result of a theoretical and empirical study shows the influence of family life experience, role expectations and claims in marriage on the dynamics of marriage satisfaction. Marriage satisfaction is an evaluative reflexive attitude of the couple to the developed in the family relationships and role positions. Marital relations expressed in marriage satisfaction are also considered as a special type of subjective and personal interaction between husband and wife, regulated by moral principles and formed in accordance with the values generalized in the image of the family, which usually contains a person's past experience, ideas about marital roles based on the experience of the role functioning of the parent family. The factors and conditions affecting the satisfaction of spouses with marital relations and signs of disharmony of marital relations leading to dissatisfaction with marriage are analyzed. Marriage satisfaction depends on the consistency of role expectations and claims of a couple, family life experience. The results of the study were analyzed for each married couple separately for the purpose of subsequent family counseling and by groups, taking into account the marriage period. The research studies relationship between the attitude to the couple functions, education level and employment.
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Meyer, Alicja. "Cohabitation as an alternative forms of family life." Pedagogika. Studia i Rozprawy 31 (2022): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/p.2022.31.08.
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The marriage relationship is of interest to many areas of research. Social influences affecting its transformations, durability, functions and roles are examined performed in it. Despite many changes, the family is the basic and most important social unit. Over the years, researchers' curiosity has focused on informal relationships, which are an increasingly common alternative form of family. Marriage recognized is for kinship in terms of economic, emotional and sexual realization. The same goal in the pursuit of happiness and common good. It is a formal relationship that serves, inter alia, to start a family, beget children, and provide for its members. The aim of the article is to indicate the factors determining the quality and durability of modern partnerships, with particular emphasis on cohabitation and marriage.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Marriage-family relationships"
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Farrar, Jay Curtis. "Strengthening marriage and family relationships through biblical teachings." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Lee, Wilson S. "David's family a study of his family relationships and its applications /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Fang, Fang. "Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83771.
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This dissertation explores how family and marriage relationships vary according to the culture in which they occur. Based on the individualism/collectivism framework about cultural variations in familial beliefs across countries, I study three topics of family and marriage relationships across cultures. In the first study, I examine how 17 member countries of Organisation of Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) differ culturally in older adults' preference for family elder care. I find that older adults from countries with more traditional values that emphasize the importance of a strong parent-child tie are more likely to prefer family care rather than formal care than those from more secular-rational countries with less emphasis on the parent-child tie; the cultural difference gets smaller at a higher level of individual family income. In the second study, I select China as a representative of the collectivist culture, and look into how the collectivist culture and older parents' filial beliefs shape the intergenerational relationship in China. I find that patrilocal and patrilineal traditions are still prevail in China. A highly cohesive intergenerational relationship people idealize in the collectivist culture is more common between older parents and married sons, and least common between older parents and married daughters. In the third study, I compare an individualist society, the U.S., and China, a collectivist society to test whether marriage also isolates people from their informal social network in China as observed in the U.S. I find that marriage does not isolate but integrates people into their informal social network in China, while marriage isolate people in the U.S. The three studies present new evidence on how marriage and family experiences differ due to different cultural beliefs about family, and under what conditions the cultural influences are weakened or reinforced.<br>Ph. D.
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Gilliland, Tamara. "Marriage moments : a new approach to strengthening couples' relationships through the transition to parenthood /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2002. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd149.pdf.
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Lambert-Shute, Jennifer Jane. "Students and Faculty Members in Marriage and Family Therapy Programs: Navigating Successful Non-Sexual Dual Relationships." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28221.
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Dual relationships in the family therapy field are currently under debate. Within this debate extreme viewpoints and opinions, on what is the best way to navigate dual relationships, are being voiced. These views range from avoiding non-sexual dual relationships at all costs to glorifying the possibilities of such a relationship. To obtain a snap shot of faculty and student experiences a web survey was sent to fifteen masters and ten doctoral COAMFTE-accredited programs. Participants were 76 students and 30 faculty members, a total of 106 respondents. The web survey revealed that the majority of respondents had positive and successful dual relationships. Faculty and students indicated several strategies to keep relationships positive and to prevent unsuccessful dual relationships. These strategies included: boundaries, respect, communication, and awareness. Additionally, the web survey revealed that students and faculty did have training on dual relationships but the majority was limited to a general exposure in an ethics class. Furthermore, the faculty and students seemed to reflect diverse opinions on how to handle dual relationships, which is also present in the MFT field. The participants' perception of how dual relationships are viewed in the MFT field ranged from avoiding dual relationships to extolling the benefits of being in a dual relationship. To further explore how to create a successful dual relationship between faculty and students, in-depth telephone interviews with a sub-sample from the web survey were conducted. Five dyads, consisting of faculty and their respective students, were used. These interviews explored contextual issues related to positive non-sexual relationships between faculty and student dyads. An overarching theme revealed in the interviews was the amount of activity present for both students and faculty to create the successful dual relationships. Additionally, two major themes emerged, characteristics of success and strategies for success. Characteristics which seemed to facilitate the relationship were: student characteristics, faculty characteristics, nurturance, trust, awareness, being a person, decreased hierarchy/equality, and mutual respect. Strategies revealed in these relationships included: checking, open communication, viable boundaries, navigating boundaries, assessing risk, decreasing hierarchy, and advice. Also, implications for family therapy programs are presented, as are implications for future research.<br>Ph. D.
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Terry, Trisha Marie. "In-laws and marital relationships." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2263.
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This study examined the relationship between married individuals, their mothers-in-laws, fathers-in-law and marital adjustment. Participants were 33 male and 123 female married college students (mean age of 30) who responded to a questionaire assessing perceived in-law social support, perceived dissimilarity in family values with in-laws, triangulation with in-laws, and marital adjustment.
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Chelladurai, Joe Meshach. "Exploring Love in Family Relationships." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8420.
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The purpose of the study was to qualitatively investigate love in religious family relationships. Participants were from the American Families of Faith Project, a qualitative study on religion and family life with participants from 198 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families (N = 478) across the United States. The primary research questions of present study were (a) what does love mean for families? (b) why do individuals and couples in families love? (c) how is love experienced? (d) what are the related processes of love? (e) how does religion influence love in religious families? and (f) what are the reported outcomes of love for individuals and families? Interview data was analyzed through a three-phase approach: feasibility study, codebook development, and grounded theory coding. The first phase conducted by two coders, excluding the author, concluded that there was sufficient data to conduct further analysis. The second phase was conducted by four coders, excluding the author and the two previous coders, who developed a codebook and organized data into four relational domains (marital, parental, children’s, and divine) and six categories, which were based on the research questions (meaning, motivation, process, experience, influence, and outcome). In the third phase, the author analyzed the intersections between domains and categories through matrix coding and numeric content analysis. Then, using modified grounded theory approaches, themes were developed and presented as findings with illustrative participant quotations. Finally, findings, limitations, future directions, and implications for therapists and educators were discussed.
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Katz, Emma. "Surviving together : domestic violence and mother-child relationships." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28456/.
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This thesis explores how mothers and children in the UK are affected by domestic violence, resist it, and actively support one another's recoveries. The focus extends beyond 'incidents' of physical violence, into the commonplace, the subtle and the everyday. This thesis shows that supportive mother-child relationships may enhance the well-being and recoveries of both mothers and children. It highlights the need to expand professional supports that repair and strengthen mother-child relationships. The study is located on different theoretical ground from most research in the domestic violence field. Usually, within the field, mothers' parenting is seen as promoting or not promoting resilience in their (passive) children. Often, children supporting mothers is seen as inappropriate and indicative of children taking on 'adult roles' or being 'parentified'. There has been little attention to the ways that children, along with mothers, may be active in producing the strong, supportive mother-child relationships that promote resilience and well-being. By contrast, this study conceptualises children, along with mothers, as active contributors to mother-child relationships. Mutual supports between mothers and children are viewed as potentially positive and productive. Thirty participants, 15 mothers and 15 children (aged 10-20) from the UK with experiences of domestic violence, were interviewed for this study. These interviews were conducted using a semi-structured, feminist-informed approach. Participants were recruited through organisations that support those with experiences of domestic violence, using a combination of purposive and snowball sampling. All participants were residing in the community, and the majority had never accessed refuge services. Ethical approval to conduct the study was granted by the University of Nottingham. This thesis presents findings that show how children supported mothers, while mothers continued to parent and support their children. The children and mothers interviewed described supporting each other in multiple ways. During the domestic violence, helpful supports could occur even as mothers and children struggled to communicate about what was happening and suffered negative behavioural and mental health impacts. Some mother-child relationships were more strained than others during this period. This study identifies five factors that influenced the extent of the damage caused to mother-child relationships during the domestic violence. These factors centred on the behaviours of perpetrators/fathers (their treatment of the children, the types of abuse they perpetrated, and the extent to which they undermined mother-child relationships) and the impacts of these behaviours on mothers and children. In the post-separation violence phase, children and mothers were on the 'frontlines' of each other's recoveries. Often, they acted as 'recovery-promoters' for one another, especially when they had received professional supports that repaired and strengthened their relationships. Recovery-promotion frequently occurred in subtle, everyday, age-appropriate ways not usually considered in previous research, including the giving of compliments and praise and 'having fun' together. However, mothers and children also described exchanging some supports that may have been more problematic, and not all mothers and children were able to support one another to the same extent. Based on these findings, this thesis proposes a framework for identifying the different levels and contexts of supports exchanged by mothers and children, and their complex, varied impacts. This framework has utility for future research, policy and practice with domestic violence survivors.
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Sinclair, Christina. "Sisters, brothers & others : a study of marriage, divorce and extended family relationships." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272380.
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Davies, Hayley. "Constituting family : children's normative expectations and lived experiences of close relationships." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1077/.
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This thesis is about the meanings that children aged 8-10 years old attribute to family and close relationships. The thesis focuses on how children’s normative expectations about family relate to their lived experiences of family life and relationships. It is based on data from a school-based field study, combining participant observation, interviews, children’s drawings, visits to children’s family homes, and the children’s production of books about their families. The research took place over nineteen months. Its contribution to knowledge lies in a new theoretical framework, combining insights from family and childhood sociology, for the purpose of examining children’s constitution of family. The thesis demonstrates that children conceive of family as a meaningful and highly valued set of relationships, challenging the notion that the concept of ‘family’ has lost its sociological and analytical significance. This thesis illustrates that children consider the family as those people with whom they feel a sense of belonging; a feeling that was achieved across a range of family forms. This conceptualisation of belonging departs from traditional conceptualisations in encompassing face-to-face contact as an important element of belonging to a family. The thesis concludes that an emphasis on children feeling part of a family is more productive than the present policy focus on maintaining nuclear family forms. Particular attention is given to how children identify visible forms of relatedness, through surname, cohabitation and through family members ‘displaying’ family-like relationships and family photographs.
Books on the topic "Marriage-family relationships"
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Groves, Ernest R. American marriage and family relationships. Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.
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Bertine, Eleanor. Close relationships: Family, friendship, marriage. Inner City Books, 1992.
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Coleman, James C. Intimate relationships, marriage, and family. 2nd ed. Macmillan Pub. Co., 1988.
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James, Walters, and Stinnett Nancy M, eds. Relationships in marriage & the family. 3rd ed. Macmillan, 1991.
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Kersten, Karen Kayser. Marriage and the family: Studying close relationships. Harper & Row, 1988.
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Pocs, Ollie. Our intimate relationships: Marriage and the family. Harper & Row, 1989.
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Seccombe, Karen. Marriages and families: Relationships in social context. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004.
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David, Knox. Choices in relationships: An introduction to marriage and the family. West Pub. Co., 1985.
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David, Knox. Choices in relationships: An introduction to marriage and the family. 3rd ed. West Pub. Co., 1991.
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Caroline, Schacht, ed. Choices in relationships: An introduction to marriage and the family. Wadsworth, 2013.
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Steel, Liz, Warren Kidd, and Anne Brown. "Family Roles, Marriage and Relationships." In The Family. Macmillan Education UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-36983-2_7.
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McHale, Susan M., Kimberly A. Updegraff, and Shawn D. Whiteman. "Sibling Relationships." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_15.
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Jackson, Stevi. "Women, Marriage and Family Relationships." In Introducing Women’s Studies. Macmillan Education UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25726-3_15.
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Walker, Alexis J. "Gender and Family Relationships." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5367-7_17.
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DeFrain, John, and David H. Olson. "Contemporary Family Patterns and Relationships." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5367-7_13.
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Crews, Douglas E., and Hector Balcazar. "Exploring Family and Health Relationships." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5367-7_23.
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Bush, Kevin R., and Gary W. Peterson. "Parent–Child Relationships in Diverse Contexts." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_13.
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Helms, Heather M. "Marital Relationships in the Twenty-First Century." In Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_11.
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Ruggles, Steven. "Marriage, Family Systems, and Economic Opportunity in the USA Since 1850." In Gender and Couple Relationships. Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21635-5_1.
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Forster, Christine, and Jaya Sagade. "Right to Equality in Marriage and Family Relationships." In Women’s Human Rights in India. Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429320200-6.
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Millere, Jolanta. "Changes in Family Structure in Latvia: trends and challenges." In 22nd International Scientific Conference. “Economic Science for Rural Development 2021”. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2021.55.058.
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Nowadays, we can observe various changes in family structure, which lead to the need to change the traditional understanding of the family. These changes can be explained by the prevalence of the globalization process in society, which have affected almost all spheres of life, including the family institute. Within the article, based on the analysis of statistical data and literature, the current trends of changes in family structure and related challenges will be described. When analysing changes in family structure, it is necessary to focus on both - structural and qualitative changes, which were reflected in the composition of families, trends in marriage registration, as well as in relationships between family members. The most characteristic changes show increase of such families with children where cohabiting partners are living together without registering the marriage as well as decreasing amount of nuclear families and increasing amount of single-parent families. This trend leads to other qualitative changes in family structure - several challenges of social policy because single-parent families often face different problems related to effective functioning of the family. For example, single-parent families with children are more often at risk of poverty than nuclear families, as well as face various types of problems in meeting the needs of the family. Social policy planners, when designing support for families with children, should take into account the specifics of single-parent families and provide them support according to the needs of these families, without waiting when families will fall into the social risk category.
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Siddiqui, Khizra Tahir, Gauri Jasuja, and Anshay Tomar. "Lasting Effects of Early Trauma: Understanding Its Influence on Adult Anxiety." In Transforming Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Research on Integrative Learning Across Disciplines. The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, 2025. https://doi.org/10.51767/ic250433.
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Anxiety disorders often stem from unresolved childhood trauma, past experiences, and maladaptive thought patterns. This case study examines the manifestations of anxiety in Ruchika, a 34-year-old married woman who experiences severe trust issues and emotional dysregulation due to past trauma. Having lost her mother at the age of 17, Ruchika was forced into a caregiving role for her younger sister while simultaneously adjusting to a blended family dynamic. These early life experiences shaped her perception of relationships, leading to chronic anxiety, insecurity, and difficulty trusting her husband. Her symptoms include overthinking, emotional outbursts, paranoia, and physical manifestations of distress. Despite being in a stable marital relationship, Ruchika's persistent fears of abandonment and betrayal cause intense emotional episodes, leading to difficulties in her marriage. Her distress manifests in extreme anxiety, crying spells, and physical agitation, at times resulting in aggressive behaviors. This case study explores the psychological impact of early trauma on adult relationships, analyzing Ruchika's symptoms through clinical tools and frameworks. The study highlights the necessity of cognitive-behavioral interventions, trauma-focused therapy, and emotional regulation strategies to mitigate her anxiety and improve her overall well-being.
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Alazab, Seham, and Norah Almosaed. "WHY STAY? SAUDI WOMEN’S ADAPTIONS TO VIOLENCE." In SSHRA 2024 – Social Science & Humanities Research Association International Conference, 07-08 May, Kuala Lumpur. Global Research & Development Services, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/icssh.2024.247248.
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The study investigates the reasons why women continue to live with an abusive husband and examines the relationship between their reasons and a number of variables that support one’s ability to cope with spousal violence. These variables include employment status, educational level, number of children, marriage duration, the social status of the wife's family and the number of violent incidents. A demographic survey and a spousal violence adaption scale were administered to a sample of 114 abused wives. The results revealed that all of the variables and several of the dimensions represented by the violence adaption scale affected the women’s decisions. The impact of these variables was more obvious among nonworking wives and the lesser educated, women with a greater number of children, those who had been married longer, those who senatal families had a low social status, and those who were subjected to violence more frequently. Keywords: adaptation to violence, marital violence, Saudi Arabia, spousal violence, violence against women in Saudi Arabia, why women stay in violent relationships.
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DAOUD Orkeia, Prof Dr AHMED. "PREMARITAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION: LEGAL RESPONSE TO SOCIAL VARIABLES - COMPARATIVE STUDY –." In I. International Century Congress for Social Sciences. Rimar Academy, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/soci.con1-2.
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The premarital medical examination is considered a very important preventive measure, in order to protect all family members in all aspects, especially health and social, by preventing diseases, detecting them, and then preventing the deterioration of the health situation if infection is proven, In addition to presenting the available alternatives for coexistence between the parties to the marital relationship, including striving to complete the marriage while undergoing periodic health oversight, childlessness, avoiding consanguineous marriage...etc. Some countries have taken serious steps towards obligating this medical examination, including Algeria through Order No. 05-02 amending and supplementing the Family Law, as well as Executive Decree No. 06-154 specifying the conditions and methods for applying Article 07 bis regarding the medical certificate, in addition to its approval under Law No. 18-11 related to health
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Sun, Lijun, Zhefei Mao, and Jie Zhou. "The Effect of Employees’ Marital Satisfaction on Job Performance: Based on the Perspective of Conservation of Resource Theory." In 10th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (FCST 2022). Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2022.120803.
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The study linking the marriage with work explores the mechanism of action of employees’ marital satisfaction and job performance through establishing a moderated mediating effect model. The results of the correlation and regression analyses conducted by collecting questionnaires from 290 employees indicated that: (1) Emotional exhaustion and work engagement play a chain mediating role in the positive relationship between marital satisfaction and job performance. (2) Work meaningfulness and work engagement play a chain mediating role in the positive relationship between marital satisfaction and job performance. (3) The need to support a family moderates the relationship between marital satisfaction and work meaningfulness, as well as the mediating effect of work meaningfulness and work engagement on the relationship between marital satisfaction and job performance. (4) The need to support a family moderates the relationship between marital satisfaction and emotional exhaustion, as well as the mediating effect between emotional exhaustion and work engagement on marital satisfaction and job performance. (5) Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between marital satisfaction and work meaningfulness, as well as the mediating effect between work meaningfulness and work engagement on marital satisfaction and job performance. This study provides a new perspective of family as resources for improving employees’ job performance in management.
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Jenko, Aladin. "Divorce problems Divorce from a man does not occur except in court model." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DEFICIENCIES AND INFLATION ASPECTS IN LEGISLATION. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicdial.pp238-250.
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"Divorce is considered a form of family disintegration that leads to the demolition of the family and family pillars after its construction through the marriage contract and then the termination of all social ties between husband and wife and often between their relatives. Divorce rates have risen to frightening levels that threaten our Islamic societies. Among the most important causes of divorce in our society are the following: The failure of one or both spouses in the process of adapting to the other through the different nature of the spouses and their personalities, the interference of the parents, the lack of harmony and compatibility between the spouses, the bad relationship and the large number of marital problems, the cultural openness, the absence of dialogue within the family. Several parties have sought to develop possible solutions to this dangerous phenomenon in our society, including: Establishment of advisory offices to reduce divorce by social and psychological specialists, and include the issue of divorce within the educational and educational curricula in a more concerned manner that shows the extent of the seriousness of divorce and its negative effects on the individual, family and society, and the development of an integrated policy that ensures the treatment of the causes and motives leading to divorce in the community, as well as holding conferences. Scientific and enlightening seminars and awareness workshops and the need for religious institutions and their media platforms to play a guiding and awareness role of the danger and effects of divorce on family construction and society, and to educate community members about the dangers of divorce and the importance of maintaining the husband’s bond and stability. As well as reviewing some marriage legislation and regulations, such as raising the age of marriage and reconsidering the issue of underage marriage, which is witnessing a rise in divorce rates. Among the proposed solutions is the demand to withdraw the power of divorce from the man's hands and place it in the hands of the judge, to prevent certain harm to women, or as a means to prevent the frequent occurrence of divorce. The last proposition created a problem that contradicts the stereotypical image of divorce in Islamic law, for which conditions and elements have been set, especially since Islamic Sharia is the main source of personal status laws in most Islamic countries. Therefore, the importance of this research is reflected in the study of this solution and its effectiveness as a means to prevent the spread of divorce, and not deviate from the pattern specified for it according to Sharia."
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Routray, Sushree. "The Killjoy Mother: Navigating the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.4.9039.
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Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar (2020) narrates the story of a mother who disrupts the hegemonic discourse of motherhood by refusing to abnegate her desires for the sake of her child completely. This decision has significant ramifications for the daughter, who grapples with an ontological crisis and feelings of estrangement as she internalises patriarchal ideologies and grapples with her mother's humanity. The novel conceives of motherhood as a liminal space in which women must confront and negotiate the boundaries between their own subjectivities and their obligations to their children. Through an analysis of Sara Ahmed's understanding of happiness as a product of conformity to societal norms of family and marriage, the novel calls into question the fates of women who resist these norms. The novel dances on the edges of abstract notions of motherhood inconsistent with embodied experiences of motherhood. Ultimately, Doshi's narrative framework reclaims the agency and individuality of mothers, depicting them not simply as nurturers and caretakers but as multifaceted individuals with their desires and choices.
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Mitrović, Katarina. "KRALjICA JELENA U ULOZI SUPRUGE." In Kralj Milutin i doba Paleologa: istorija, književnost, kulturno nasleđe. Publishing House of the Eparchy of Šumadija of the Serbian Orthodox Church - "Kalenić", 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/6008-065-5.037m.
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This paper considers private and family life of Queen Helen (about 1250– 1314) and particularly her relationship with her husband, King Uroš I (1234– 1276). The main source of information were the King and Queen’s biographies written by Archbishop Danilo II. These biographies were composed long after deaths of the main characters, based on the author’s memories and the tales of their peers, with the aim of depicting interactions within the royal family in the most favourable light. The relationship of Helen and Uroš was described as an ideal Christian marriage in which the wife followed the will of her husband in everything. However, in more than one place in the biographies, Danilo had described Helena’s personality as independent, mature and authentic, particularly in regard to her son Dragutin who rose to the throne in 1276 by coup. One other source – Helena’s letter– oath written at the court in Brnjaci, of unestablished date, which was addressed to the Archbishop, Rector and the Commune of Ragusa, showed that the Queen was willing to secretly make decisions which were not in compliance with the official policies and positions of her husband. Helen had erected and donated to the Gradac Monastery, aiming to be buried in her foundation, together with her husband Uroš and their loyal friend Archbishop Joanikije. This also tells us much about the relationship between the spouses. The source information was approached from the depth psychology angle and using transactional analysis as a behavioural development theory. The result is a potentially plausible reconstruction of Helena’s character in terms of her role as a wife.
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Zineb, BOUSSAID. "Suspicions about Women's Rights and Their Status in Islam Comparison between Islamic Discourse and Legal Covenants." In I.International Congress ofWoman's Studies. Rimar Academy, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/lady.con1-20.
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There is no doubt that the world today is more interested than ever in the discourse of human rights that sheds light on the covenants and legal charters that govern this domain. Besides that, women are the pivotal pillar of the society; consequently, they are the primary concern in the human rights discourse of different generations. Subsequently, their personal, cultural, political, financial and social rights are recognized; furthermore, their rights are strengthened by official charters . Despite the fact that no one can deny the positive aspects of the human rights discourse related to the role and the status of women in society by spreading human rights awareness and building a strong relationship between men and women based on human considerations; nevertheless, real life is another world, it is paradoxical, declarations and covenants advocate for women’s rights, at the same time women suffer from violence, disrespect, and discrimination. In the era of rights, cultural openness, technological revolution and economic development, women are threatened more than ever by other ways of violence that directly target the natural instinct and the moral values by spreading abnormalities such as homosexuality and gender reassignment. These acts can also be seen in official discourses and adopted by official organizations and governments profiting from the lack of the moral discourse that should be undertaken by the monotheistic religions especially the Islam. Moreover, the human rights discourse accuses the religious discourse of violating women’s rights and raises a number of suspicions around it. This leads us to question the credibility and the effectiveness of the human rights discourse? And to look for the alternatives that the Islamic discourse can offer in order to remove all the suspicions raised around it. These are questions that I try to answer through this article by elucidating the essence of the Islamic discourse that works for spreading values and also to reply on the suspicions that have been raised about the status of women in the Islam. I decided to follow these steps: Introduction: defining the problem and determining the outlines. First: Instinct is a guide to family values and drawing up the relationship between men and women. Second: Polygamy. Third: Guardianship and Alimony responsibility for the family. Fourth: Guardianship in the Islamic marriage contract. Fifth: Females decrease in religion and mind. Sixth: The male has the equal of the portion of two females. Conclusion.
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Jayathunga, T. W. M. P. S. "Colourism in advertising: how skin care product advertisements impact women in India." In Integrated Design Research Conference 2024, edited by S. Samarawickrama. Department of Integrated Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa., 2024. https://doi.org/10.31705/idr.2024.1.
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Skin-lightening products are arguably the best example of the powerful impact of advertising on people’s psycho-social behaviour. South Asians are notorious when it comes to their obsession with lighter skin tones. In India, the biggest market for skin-lightening skincare products, this phenomenon is fuelled by centuries of historical, political, social, religious, and geographical segregation as well as the influence of Western media (Mishra, 2015). By considering the negative impact of fairness cream use and the promotion of skin-lightening products, The Indian Ministry of Health and Welfare banned the negative portrayal of dark skin in advertising (Raj et al., 2022). However, these regulations apply only to the textual or verbal messaging in advertising. Overcoming those regulations is a simple matter of replacing ‘Fair’ or ‘Whitening’ with words like; ‘Glow’, ‘Brightening’, and ‘Lightening’. These regulations do not challenge the underlying discriminatory narrative of skin-lightening advertisements, due to a lack of in-depth understanding of how various aspects of advertising impact its viewers. This paper aims to bridge this knowledge gap by studying how different aspects of advertisements can impact psycho-social behaviour. The research design is a qualitative systematic literature review with a deductive approach that uses both empirical and theoretical data. Literature from credible databases such as; Google Scholar, Springer Link, ScienceDirect, and Wiley Online Library, published within the last 10 years, were considered for the systematic review to protect the findings' credibility and relevance. PRISMA model of inclusion and exclusion was used as a screening process to narrow down the final literature materials. Indian society views lighter skin as an indicator of success (Verma and Ray, 2023). This practice pre-dates India's history of colonisation when the arrival of Nomadic Aryans with lighter skin met their opponents - the darker-skinned Dravidans (Bajwa, von Maur, and Stephan, 2023). Skin tone would have been an easy indicator of tribe or caste and later social hierarchy. Centuries later and after several colonial invasions, Indian society associates lighter skin with wealth and privilege. Yet, according to Pathak and Nichter (2018), Indian women have little knowledge and experience with skincare products due to the negative social stigma surrounding self-adornment. Therefore aspirations for lighter skin stem from various social and personal measures (See Fig. 1) which are then used in creating compelling advertisements. Research shows that TV and digital advertisements are themain influencers for the use of skin-lightening products among Indian women (Mangal et al., 2021). For Indian women, fair skin means they get better opportunities in their careers and in marriage. Most of the early 2000s fairness advertisements from India narrated a similar story. A young girl failed to secure a dream job, only to pass the interview after using the advertised skin-lightening product. Another girl was rejected by her lover only to have him come running after she had used the skin-lightening product. More recent advertisements show lighter skin as a catalyst for female empowerment (Arumugam et al., 2022). See Fig. 2. However, most of these advertisements portray the product as a need by accepting, amplifying, and advocating society’s stigmas and prejudices surrounding skin tone. The degradation or the humiliation of the character with the darker skin in most of these advertisements is how the brand uses its power and strength to influence a new narrative in society, where the product becomes a need. In his 2014 study, S. Nadeem explains how advertisements have set a benchmark for beauty and assigned light-skin exclusionary powers which leads to ‘Social Mimicry’ a state of false consciousness and a desire based on power relationships. He also points out how all these advertisements hint at a lack of individual sovereignty. The skin-lightening product always has validation from friends or family (See Fig.3) . This is a driving state created by social measures. Meanwhile, Krishen, LaTour, and Alishah (2024) use the Consumer Motivational Model to elaborate on how advertisements create ‘skin-tone tension’ among Asian women by creating a need-oriented drive state to move from the actual self to the ideal self. ‘If the model in the advertisement enjoys freedom and joy, I can too. I just have to lighten my skin!’. However, while Albert Bandura’s Social Cognitive theory suggests that the consumer is an active decision-maker in the buying process, a more advertising-centric model created by Justine Combs, called Social Framework for Advertising, believes that society and media are an active influence in the consumer’s passive decision-making (Combs, 2016). An advertisement’s effectiveness can be measured in two ways: financial and cognitive, where financial effectiveness is measured using the product’s elasticity of demand (Shapiro, Hitsch, and Tuchman, 2021). Cognitive effectiveness calls on measuring the change in brand perception and perceived value of the product within its target audience. Such a cognitive change is supported in an advertisement by three factors; advertising media, messaging, and time of schedule (De-Miguel-Guzmán et al., 2020). According to Zhao et al. (2022), an advertisement’s quality and frequency are the two main factors that manipulate consumers. While ad frequency helps build credibility, the definition of ad quality was found to be vague. This study defined the quality of an ad as the ability of its content to convince the viewer using personal and social measures. Ad content can also be analysed in two parts; verbal and visual. Verbal strategies like; the use of positive adjectives, and the use of possessive and plural pronouns (eg; ‘us’ and ‘you’) play a major role in advertisements in validating the viewer’s relationship with social forces. Advertising agencies also use various visual strategies such as; celebrity endorsements, depiction of scientific evidence as well and visualising the transition of the skin tones. Therefore, the research concludes that regulations on the textual content of an advertisement alone are not enough to counter the discriminatory impact of skin care advertisements. The findings of this research call for more holistic and adequate regulations for advertisements promoting skin-lightening products. This research further highlights the need for advertisers to be bold in using their creativity to challenge long-held prejudices of society, rather than re-iterating them. This can create more authentic consumer engagement with skincare brands, especially as the world embraces changing sentiments about our sense of self.
Reports on the topic "Marriage-family relationships"
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Boyd, John-Paul. Polyamory in Canada: Research on an Emerging Family Structure. The Vanier Institute of the Family, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.61959/sxof3911e.
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The Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family began a study of perceptions of polyamory in Canada in June 2016. The project is only midway through its course, but the data collected so far have important implications for law and policy in the coming decades, as the meaning of family continues to evolve. The term polyamory is a mash-up of the Greek word for much or many and the Latin word for love. As these roots suggest, people who are polyamorous are, or prefer to be, involved in more than one intimate relationship at a time. Some polyamorists are involved in stable, long-term, loving relationships involving two or more other people. Others are simultaneously engaged in a number of relationships of varying degrees of permanence and commitment. Still others are involved in a web of concurrent relationships ranging from short-term relationships that are purely sexual in nature to more enduring relationships characterized by deep emotional attachments. Polyamory The practice or condition of participating in more than one intimate relationship at a time. It is usually not related to religion and it is unrelated to marriage. Polygamy The practice or condition of having more than one spouse, typically a wife, at one time, usually for religious reasons.
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Julian, Christopher, Krista Westrick-Payne, and Wendy Manning. Recent Marriages to Same-sex and Different-sex Couples: Mobility, Region, Home Ownership, and Household Income, 2023. National Center for Family and Marriage Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.25035/ncfmr/fp-25-19.
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June 26, 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in the United States. This Family Profile examines newlywed same-sex and different-sex couples, focusing on geographic and economic indicators: residential mobility, census region, homeownership, and household income. This analysis updates a prior profile (FP-23-28; Westrick-Payne & Manning, 2023) using the American Community Survey, 1-year estimates 2023 from IPUMS USA (Ruggles et al., 2024). We identified couples using the revised household relationship roster (Kreider & Gurrentz, 2019), which limited the sample to couples that included the household reference person. Some figures display 95% confidence intervals. Because the ACS captures current status rather than timing, we cannot determine the sequencing of marriage, residential moves, geographic location, or homeownership within the past year. Find our other Family Profiles on LGBTQ+ relationships here.
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Julian, Christopher, Krista Westrick-Payne, and Wendy Manning. Geographic Variation in the Prevalence of Same-sex and Different-sex Married and Cohabiting Couples, 2019-2023. National Center for Family and Marriage Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.25035/ncfmr/fp-25-20.
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June 26, 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Although the number of same-sex married couples has grown since the ruling, cohabitation remains more common among same-sex couples than their different-sex counterparts (Walker & Taylor, 2021). This Family Profile updates FP-23-06 (Julian, 2023), drawing on American Community Survey, 5-year estimates 2023 from IPUMS USA (Ruggles et al., 2024) to estimate geographic variation in the share of same-sex cohabiting and married couples among all cohabiting and married couples. Married and cohabiting couples were identified using the revised household relationship roster (Kreider & Gurrentz, 2019), which restricted the sample to unions that included the household reference person. The ACS 5-year PUMS file provides period estimates based on data collected over five consecutive years, allowing for more reliable analysis of small populations and geographies that cannot be adequately measured using annual data alone (Raglin, 2022). The 2023 5-year file is notable as it is the first 5-year dataset to fully reflect responses gathered since the implementation of the revised household roster. Find our other profiles on LGBTQ+ relationships here.
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Westrick-Payne, Krista. Forty-Five Years of Change in Marriage and Motherhood Among Women, 1979 & 2024. National Center for Family and Marriage Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.25035/ncfmr/fp-25-14.
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Since 1979 the median age at first marriage has steadily increased (Westrick-Payne, 2024a) while the refined marriage rate has decreased by about half (Westrick-Payne, 2024b). At the same time, the general fertility rate has also declined (USA Facts, 2024) reflecting broad societal shifts in relationship timing and family formation. These trends underscore the importance of examining long-term changes in women’s marital and maternal trajectories between 1979 and 2024. This profile compares data from the 1979 and 2024 Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey to examine differences in the shares of women who ever married and ever had a birth by the end of their childbearing years (defined as ages 40-44). This represents the experiences of women born between 1935 and 1939 (part of the Silent Generation) and women born between 1980 and 1984 (those on the cusp of the Millennial Generation). Overall trends are examined as well as trends by race and ethnicity and educational attainment. This is an update of a previous profile FP-22-19 (Brown, 2022).
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Infographic: Modern Couples in Canada. The Vanier Institute of the Family, 2017. https://doi.org/10.61959/nikt1836e.
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Just as families have evolved across generations, so too have the couple relationships that are a major part of Canada’s “family landscape.” This perpetual change is both a reflection of and a driving force behind some of the evolving social, economic, cultural and environmental forces that shape family life. Dating, marriage, cohabitation, common-law relationships – the ways people choose to come together, or decide to move apart, are as diverse as the couples themselves. There are, however, some broad trends being witnessed across the country, with family structures diversifying, people forming couple relationships at later ages and family finances taking on a more egalitarian structure. Using new data from the 2016 Census, the Vanier Institute of the Family has published an infographic on modern couples in Canada.
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Forced sexual relations among married young women in developing countries. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy22.1007.
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Recent research in developing countries suggests that a considerable number of young women may experience forced sex within marriage, but most women may be inhibited from reporting these experiences due to shame, fear of reprisal, or deep-rooted unequal gender norms. In September 2003, a global consultative meeting on nonconsensual sex among young people in developing countries was held in New Delhi, India. The meeting was organized by the Population Council in collaboration with World Health Organization/Department of Reproductive Health and Research, and Family Health International/YouthNet. Participants included researchers, legal analysts, representatives from community-based NGOs, policy-makers, and young people themselves. Papers highlighting the nature and prevalence of coercion among married young women were presented. Sessions examined the following issues in relation to nonconsensual sex: experiences of young females and males: prevalence, forms, and contexts; youth perspectives; patterns of transactional sex; roles of the legal system; outcomes of coercion at the individual and community level; interventions to prevent nonconsensual sex and to support and treat victims; and research design and methods. Several recommendations for action to address factors that heighten young women’s vulnerability to coercive sexual relationships within marriage were presented.