scholarly journals Marriage, Cohabitation and Participation in Domestic Labor: Men and Women in Contemporary Italy

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Laura Arosio
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
National Representative Survey ◽  
Italian National Institute

This work aims to study whether cohabiting couples tend to introduce new patterns in the allocation of domestic labor compared to married couples or if emergent family arrangements tend to follow traditional models. After a discussion of the theoretical issues involved, the results of an analysis on the time spent by partners on domestic labor will be presented. This analysis focuses on differences in the type of relationship individuals are in; that is, whether they are married or cohabiting. A comparison between men and women will be carried out. The data used in the analyses come from the national representative survey Multi-Purpose Family Survey Aspects of Daily Life, carried out in 2012 by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). The results suggest that even after taking into account other factors which tend to affect time spent in domestic labor, cohabitation appears to be a different model of partnership for women as opposed to marriage. This result is not valid for men. Men and women show different patterns of involvement into domestic labor and family life.

scholarly journals Understanding and Litera Legis of Marriage Law in the Millennial Era for School Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Pujiono Pujiono ◽  
Arif Hidayat ◽  
Dewi Sulistianingsih
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
School Students ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Initial Process

In Indonesia, the marriage law is regulated in UU No. 1 of 1974 which has been amended to become UU No. 16 of 2019. In addition, non-Moslems may comply with the provisions of the marriage law contained in the Civil Code. Marriage is an initial process for the formation of family life and the beginning of the manifestation of forms of human life. The daily life of men and women, created by God Almighty, naturally has an attraction to one another to share affection in realizing a life together or it can be said that they want to form physical and mental bonds to create a happy, harmonious, and eternal family. Understanding the marriage law needs to be done with humanist efforts and cannot be done instantly. The efforts to understand the marriage law need to be made to all levels of society, especially for school children so that the marriage they live in can be in accordance with the objectives of the marriage. School children are classified as immature and they still have an important responsibility to study. They really need information about the marriage law in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of marriage because they are in a stage of growth that is full of curiosity. This program aims that school children will not get missed-information about the marriage law. Therefore, school students are one of the targets of this program.

A comparison of consumer decision‐making behavior of married and cohabiting couples

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 264-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabil Razzouk ◽  
Victoria Seitz ◽  
Karen Prodigalidad Capo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Decision Making Behavior

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to compare the consumer decision‐making behavior between married and cohabiting couples.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 40 cohabiting couples and 53 married couples in a western state via a self‐administered questionnaire. The structure and the instrument used replicated the Gadis et al. study in exploring consumer decision‐making processes of married couples.FindingsMarried couples tended to be more syncratic than cohabiting couples in their decision to purchase forms of savings in this phase, but more autonomic when purchasing alcoholic beverages. Cohabiting couples were found to be more syncratic in their decision making for these products at this phase than married couples. The results, when compared to those of 18 years ago found that men and women of married couples make purchasing decisions separately, while men and women of cohabiting couples made most of theirs together. Implications of the findings were then discussed.Practical implicationsMarketers, when attempting to reach married couples today, should focus media and advertising communication efforts on two audiences rather than one since either the husband or wife may be making the decision. The communication strategy used should focus on the joint nature of both processes since cohabiters showed a propensity toward syncratic strategies in all three phases. Advertising and message strategies should focus on how single people of the opposite sex decide on product purchases together since cohabiters are more like single people in their decision‐making behavior.Originality/valueThis study compares consumer decision making among married and cohabiting couples.

Social Norms, Choice, and Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christie Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gendered Division Of Labor

In modern liberal democracies, the gendered division of labor is partially the result of men and women making different choices about work and family life, even if such choices stem from social norms about gender. The choices that women make relative to men’s disadvantage them in various ways: such choices lead them to earn less, enjoy less power and prestige in the labor market, be less able to participate in the political sphere on an equal basis, make them to some degree financially dependent on others, and leave them at a bargaining disadvantage and vulnerable in certain personal relationships. This chapter considers if and when the state should intervene to address women’s disadvantage and inequalities that are the result of gender specialization. It is argued that political liberals can and sometimes must intervene in the gendered division of labor when persons’ interests as free and equal citizens are frustrated.

Time Goes on Crutches till Love Have All His Rites

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Legal Contract

The last three chapters of this book present specific case studies showing concrete examples of the issues to which probabilism was applied. These chapters bring the theoretical and theological discussions on probabilism into the daily life of early modern men and women, and they demonstrate the fundamental role probabilism assumed in early modern Western culture. This chapter focuses on the question of the validity of East Asian marriages, which were institutionally, legally, and culturally very different from the European West. As Catholic missionaries and theologians confronted these differences, they found probabilism immensely useful for rethinking, updating, and adapting to this new context traditional notions concerning the nature of marriage both as a sacrament and as a legal contract.

Spillover and Crossover Effects of Work-Family Conflict among Married and Cohabiting Couples

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Yucel ◽  
Beth A. Latshaw
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Crossover Effects ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Work Family

The present study uses Wave 8 of the German Family Panel to test the spillover and crossover effects of work-family conflict on job satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and mental health for individuals (actor effects) as well as their spouses/partners (partner effects) in dual-earning couples. We further contribute by assessing whether the results vary by gender and union type. Results suggest that among married couples, for job satisfaction, there are no gender differences in actor effects (but gender differences in partner effects), and actor and partner effects remain distinct. For relationship satisfaction, there are no gender differences in actor or partner effects, but both effects remain distinct. For mental health, however, there are gender differences in actor effects (but not in partner effects), and both effects remain distinct. Among cohabitors, there are no differences in actor effects by gender, and adding in partner effects does not significantly improve the models predicting all three outcomes. Some results also suggest differences in relationship dynamics between married and cohabiting couples.

The Division of Housework Among “Remarried” Couples

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
ORIEL SULLIVAN
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Housework Time ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Division Of Housework ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Remarried Couples

There are only a limited number of studies comparing housework among couples and individuals in different marital statuses, and the focus of attention has tended to be on married compared to cohabiting couples. This article focuses on differences between couples where one or more partner is remarried or recohabiting and those where both partners are in their first married or cohabiting relationships, using nationally representative survey data from Britain. It is shown in multivariate analysis that women in their second-plus partnerships contribute less in terms of their proportion of total housework time than women in their first partnerships. However, there is no effect for the man's number of previous partnerships or for current marital/cohabiting status. It is argued that the significant issue is interaction and negotiation with a subsequent partner in the light of experience gained from the breakdown of one or more previous married/cohabiting relationships.

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