Why Is the Age of First Marriage Delayed?

Background and purpose: The earlier development of the attitude toward exclusive breastfeeding produces the longer exclusive breastfeeding duration. Considering the first marriage age among Indonesian, the attitude toward exclusive breastfeeding should be developed at the adolescence age. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the attitude toward breastfeeding concept based comic on the adolescent's attitude toward exclusive breastfeeding. Method: This was a quasy experimental posttest only with control group study. The respondents were provided an comic. The respondent's attitude toward exclusive breastfeeding was measured using The Breastfeeding Attitude Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using independent and dependent t test. Results: The majority of respondents were aged 17 years old in both intervention (70%) and control grup (63%), first child in both intervention (23,3%) and control grup (26,7%), and had a nuclear family in both intervention (80%) and control grup (90%). The independent t test showed that there was a significant difference between post-test scores among the intervention and control groups (t = 5,602, p < 0,01). Conclusion and recommendation: Nurses may use the Attitude Toward Breastfeeding based comic to increase the Adolescence's attitude toward breastfeeding.Keywords: Comic, Attitudes Toward Exclusive Breastfeeding, Adolescence

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Crossover in the Median Age at First Marriage and First Birth: Thirty-Five Years of Change

10.25035/ncfmr-fp-17-22 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Kasey J. Eickmeyer ◽

Krista K. Payne ◽

Susan L. Brown ◽

Wendy D. Manning

Keyword(s):

First Birth ◽

First Marriage ◽

Age At First Marriage

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Impact of the divorce experience on the marital and family mindsets

Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal Humanities and social sciences ◽

10.22204/2587-8956-2018-090-01-88-96 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 88-96

Author(s):

Елена Лактюхина ◽

Elena Laktyukhina ◽

Георгий Антонов ◽

Georgy Antonov

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Representative Sampling ◽

First Marriage ◽

Active Population ◽

Volgograd Region ◽

The Social ◽

Marriage Stability ◽

Main Factors ◽

The Individual

The article presents a comparative analysis of marital and family mindsets of two categories of the demographically active population of modern Russia: (1) individuals that have no experience of a divorce and (2) those who have already experienced one or more official termination of a marriage. The empirical base of the analysis is the data of the author’s questionnaire survey conducted by representative sampling in Volgograd and Volgograd Region in 2015–2016. The analysis was made on the following basic empiric indicators: optimal (from the viewpoint of the respondents) age for the first marriage, frequency of mentioning marital and family statuses as the respondents describe their own social and demographic “portrait”, legitimate causes of a divorce and a number of others. It is found that, in the case of sufficiently strong traditional marital and family mindsets, perception of marital norms is adjusted, if an “abnormal” event (such as a divorce) occurs in the individual’s life course. At the same time, perception of the marriage stability is less variable and does not depend on the social and demographic characteristics of the respondents, including the presence/absence of a marriage termination experience. The “strongest” factor that affects the change of the marital and family mindsets is age. With age (and, consequently, experience accumulation), importance of the majority of main factors capable of preventing the individual from a divorce decreases and, therefore, the risk of such event increases.

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Aurora Floyd

10.1093/owc/9780199555161.001.0001 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Keyword(s):

Young Woman ◽

Wilkie Collins ◽

Mary Elizabeth Braddon ◽

Power Struggle ◽

First Marriage ◽

The Feminine ◽

Lady Audley's Secret

abstract ‘With Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of ‘sensation novelists’. Aurora Floyd (1862–3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate, sometimes violent, Aurora does succeed in enjoying them, her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code, and particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering, angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edward’s introduction evaluates the novel’s leading place among ‘bigamy-novels’ and Braddon’s treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine.

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Timing of first marriage and women’s ability to negotiate safer sex in Nigeria

Sexual & Relationship Therapy ◽

10.1080/14681994.2021.1900559 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Bola Lukman Solanke ◽

Abayomi Folorunso Awoleye ◽

Florence Folake Ikotun ◽

Peter Olasupo Ogunjuyigbe

Keyword(s):

Safer Sex ◽

First Marriage

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Race Differences in Changing Family Demographics in the 1980s

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x94015002008 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 290-308 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

TIM B. HEATON ◽

CARDELL K. JACOBSON

Keyword(s):

Living Arrangements ◽

Family Formation ◽

White Family ◽

Mean Values ◽

Independent Variables ◽

Black And White ◽

First Marriage ◽

Small Set ◽

Timing Of Initiation ◽

Mother's Educational Level

Traditional demarcators of family formation and dissolution have changed dramatically over the past few decades and Black-White differences have become pronounced. In this article, we explore the degree to which a relatively small set of variables can account for racial difference in timing of initiation of sexual activity, first marriage, first birth, and divorce. The independent variables included in the model are adolescent living arrangements (single-parent vs. two-parent), mother's educational level, religion, region of the country, area of residency (urban, suburban, rural), birth cohort, and year of the survey. Based on hazard models for the rate of occurrence of each event, we estimate how Blacks would differ if they had mean values on covariates equal to White observed means. Although the results differ for the four dependent variables, this particular set of independent variables does not provide a satisfactory explanation of the differences between Black and White family formation and dissolution. Blacks and Whites may be responding to different structural and cultural constraints not easily captured by basic demographic variables.

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V. Fertility

New Surveys in the Classics ◽

10.1017/s0533245100021878 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 21-25

Keyword(s):

Sexual Relationships ◽

The Body ◽

Sexual Pleasure ◽

Ancient World ◽

Social Contacts ◽

Daily Care ◽

First Marriage ◽

Moral Quality

Restricting social contacts for women gave assurance that they were virgin on first marriage and that there was no doubt about the legitimacy of their children - all their children, since the ancient world did not have the system of primogeniture, which sometimes makes rich families more relaxed after the birth of the Heir. The most important moral quality for females was sophrosunē, which often (like English ‘virtue’) means simply ‘chastity’. A marriage was distinguished from other sexual relationships precisely by the woman’s ability to bear legitimate citizen children to the man: this is the point of a comment, often misinterpreted, ascribed to Demosthenes ([Demosthenes] 59.122), that men have wives for the procreation of legitimate heirs, concubines for the daily care of the body, and prostitutes for sexual pleasure.

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The Effects of Psychiatric Disorders on the Probability and Timing of First Marriage

Journal of Health and Social Behavior ◽

10.2307/2137268 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 121 ◽

Cited By ~ 74

Author(s):

Melinda S. Forthofer ◽

Ronald C. Kessler ◽

Amber L. Story ◽

Ian H. Gotlib

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

First Marriage

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Assimilation of the Puerto Ricans on the Mainland

International Migration Digest ◽

10.1177/019791836800200204 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 21-39

Author(s):

John J. Macisco

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

First Generation ◽

Second Generation ◽

Puerto Ricans ◽

The United States ◽

Social Scientists ◽

First Marriage ◽

Labor Force Status ◽

Age At First Marriage ◽

First And Second Generation

Social scientists have repeatedly tried to specify the process whereby assimilation takes place. This article points out the value of socio-demographic analysis in the study of assimilation, by describing the characteristics of Puerto Ricans on the United States mainland. In order to assess the direction of change between the first and second generation Puerto Ricans, data for the total United States population are also presented. Most of the data are drawn from the 1960 Census. First generation Puerto Ricans are compared with the second generation along the following dimensions: age, education, labor force status, income, occupation, age at first marriage, percent outgroup marriage and fertility. The Author concludes that second generation Puerto Ricans are moving in the direction of total United States averages.

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MULTILEVEL LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING BODY MASS INDEX AMONG BANGLADESHI MARRIED NON-PREGNANT WOMEN

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932016000572 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 498-508 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Md Kamruzzaman ◽

A. S. M. A. Mamun ◽

Sheikh Muhammad Abu Bakar ◽

Aik Saw ◽

T. Kamarul ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Body Mass Index ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Linear Regression ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Reproductive Age ◽

Cluster Effect ◽

Women Of Reproductive Age ◽

First Marriage ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Age At First Marriage

SummaryThe aim of this study was to investigate the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing the body mass index (BMI) of non-pregnant married Bangladeshi women of reproductive age. Secondary (Hierarchy) data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, collected using two-stage stratified cluster sampling, were used. Two-level linear regression analysis was performed to remove the cluster effect of the variables. The mean BMI of married non-pregnant Bangladeshi women was 21.60±3.86 kg/m2, and the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity was 22.8%, 14.9% and 3.2%, respectively. After removing the cluster effect, age and age at first marriage were found to be positively (p<0.01) related with BMI. Number of children was negatively related with women’s BMI. Lower BMI was especially found among women from rural areas and poor families, with an uneducated husband, with no television at home and who were currently breast-feeding. Age, total children ever born, age at first marriage, type of residence, education level, level of husband’s education, wealth index, having a television at home and practising breast-feeding were found to be important predictors for the BMI of married Bangladeshi non-pregnant women of reproductive age. This information could be used to identify sections of the Bangladeshi population that require special attention, and to develop more effective strategies to resolve the problem of malnutrition.

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