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PubMed1994

[Education, birth cohort, and marriage age: a comparative analysis of marriage age in West Germany, East Germany, and the United States].

"This paper investigates how education influences marriage behavior in three countries: the United States, West Germany, and former East Germany. Following family economics we postulate that for women a longer education decreases marriage rates both during education (institutional effect) and after the degree has been obtained (human capital effect). For men family economics predicts the delaying institutional effect, too, but the human capital effect is expected to increase marriage rates. Further considerations lead to the additional hypothesis that for younger birth cohorts these sex differences should attenuate.... For the United States and West Germany the observed marriage patterns confirm our hypotheses for the most part. For East Germany, however, we observe different marriage patterns. This was expected because the institutional context in this former socialist country was a very different one." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Age Factors↗
PubMed1993

Marriage, age at last birth and fertility in a traditional Moroccan population.

A sample of 842 rural women from Morocco (Amizmiz, Marrakech) was used to examine the relationship between a number of biosocial variables and fertility patterns. For women still in their reproductive years there were significant correlations between family size and woman's age, age at marriage and years of marriage. Among women with completed families, those with early age at marriage ceased childbearing about 10 years before reaching menopause, while women who married later continued to bear children until the end of their fertile life.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Detrimental effects of onchocerciasis on marriage age and breast-feeding.

This paper examines the extent to which onchocercal skin lesions affect the age at marriage and the duration of lactation among infected women in forest areas of Nigeria. In a retrospective study, 145 multiparous women were asked about their breast-feeding behaviour. Ninety-seven per cent routinely breast-fed after delivery, although the duration of lactation for 75 infected and 70 non-infected women was different. Of the 75 women with Onchocerca volvulus infection, 73% experienced itching during breast-feeding; 26% breast-fed for not more than 3 months compared to 2.1% of non-infected women who breast-fed for the same period (p < 0.005). A multiple regression model showed severity of onchocercal lesions as an independent predictor of shorter duration of lactation for women with O. volvulus infection. Duration of breast-feeding was reduced by more than 9 months for 6 (25%) out of 24 infected women who breast-fed infants before and after the onset of itching from lesions. Also, while the minimum age at marriage was 9 years for non-infected women, it was 17 years for women whose lesions appeared before marriage. This preliminary study suggest that incessant itching and severe onchocerciasis lesions may be important predictors of failure of women to breast-feed for longer periods in rain-forest areas of Nigeria.

Adolescent↗
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[Kooy's explanation of the drop in the marriage age in the Netherlands between 1958 and 1968].

A critique of an article by G. A. Kooy on reasons for the declining age at marriage in the Netherlands is presented. The author argues first "that a normative change does not in itself constitute the cause of a behavioural change: both changes ought to be related to a common determinant; second, that patrism and matrism, being two alternative ways of managing an Oedipal tension, do not constitute a social process and hence cannot explain social change." (summary in ENG)

Age Factors↗
PubMed1993

Long-term marriage: age, gender, and satisfaction.

Long-term marriages (N = 156) varying in spouses' age (40-50 years or 60-70 years) and relative marital satisfaction (satisfied and dissatisfied) were studied. Spouses independently completed demographic, marital, and health questionnaires and then participated in a laboratory-based procedure focused on areas of conflict and sources of pleasure. Findings supported a positive view of older marriages. Compared with middle-aged marriages, older couples evidenced (a) reduced potential for conflict and greater potential for pleasure in several areas (including children), (b) equivalent levels of overall mental and physical health, and (c) lesser gender differences in sources of pleasure. The relation between marital satisfaction and health was stronger for women than for men. In satisfied marriages, wives' and husbands' health was equivalent; in dissatisfied marriages, wives reported more mental and physical health problems than did their husbands.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Mate selection and its impact on female marriage age, pregnancy wastages, and first child survival in Tamil Nadu, India.

Marriage in Indian society is a religious duty. Consanguineous marriage is common, where individuals prefer to marry within their clan (a unilateral kin group based on either matrilineal or patrilineal descent). Keeping in mind that this form of marriage has certain disadvantages for social and biological as well as demographic aspects of individuals and families, the present study examines the influence of mate selection (i.e., close relatives, distant relatives, not related) on female age at marriage, pregnancy wastages, and survival status of the first child. The study was designed based on the information collected on a sample size of 3,948 married women aged 13-49 in Tamil Nadu, India, by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 1992. Results suggest that 48 per cent of women in Tamil Nadu marry their relatives. This practice of marrying relatives is high in rural areas, among Hindus, Scheduled Castes/tribes, and illiterate women as compared to urban areas, among non-Hindus, non-SC/ST, and educated women, respectively. The bivariate analysis reveals that women marrying their close relatives had low age at marriage and experienced a higher per cent of pregnancy wastage and child loss (first child) as compared to those women marrying their distant relatives or nonrelatives. The result is found to be consistent even after controlling for selected background variables through multivariate techniques (applied separately for age at marriage, pregnancy wastages, and the survival status of first child). Hence, this study suggests that steps should be taken to inform people about the problems of marrying close relatives through appropriate IEC programs in Tamil Nadu.

Abortion, Spontaneous↗
PubMed2005

Changes in marriage age and first birth interval in Huaning County, Yunnan Province, PR China.

The timing of marriages, first birth interval and the prevalence of premarital conception (PMC) among women of successive birth cohorts in one rural county in Yunnan, China, were examined. Detailed pregnancy histories were collected for 1,336 women aged 15-64 years using a Life History Calendar. The rising marriage age and shorter first birth interval correspond to over-all changes in the Chinese society over the same time period. The mean age at first marriage for women born before 1950 was just below 20, and 22.5 among women born 1976-1980. The later marriage age was partly offset by the dramatic shortening of the first birth interval from over 30 months in the oldest cohort to 11-12 months in the youngest. One explanation of the shortening of the first birth interval may be the increase in premarital conception. Among the young women in our study almost one-third of first pregnancies were conceived before marriage.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

[When marriage ages--love, crisis, new beginning].

Mobility of partnership increases in our times. There is a multifactorial package of causes with different preponderance in different age groups. Named be for example: the increasing average age of mankind with prolonged activities, emancipation of women, as well as sexual emancipation, new social structures etc., etc. If we analyse the factors which not only count for one single moment but in the long run for evolution of partnerships we see many different aspects. It may be useful to know them and include them in selfreflection and/or psychotherapeutic assisted changement of behavioral patterns. It may help to: on the one hand maintain human relationships; on the other hand, if separation is necessary, to make it less painful and critical.

Adaptation, Psychological↗