The Post-Migration Survival of Traditional Marriage Patterns: Consanguineous Marriages among Turks and Moroccans in Belgium

AbstractConsanguineous marriages potentially play an important role in the transmission of β-thalassaemia in many communities. This study aimed to determine the rate and socio-demographic associations of consanguineous marriages and to assess the influence on the prevalence of β-thalassaemia in Sri Lanka. Three marriage registrars from each district of Sri Lanka were randomly selected to prospectively collect data on all couples who registered their marriage during a 6-month period starting 1st July 2009. Separately, the parents of patients with β-thalassaemia were interviewed to identify consanguinity. A total of 5255 marriages were recorded from 22 districts. The average age at marriage was 27.3 (±6.1) years for males and 24.1 (±5.7) years for females. A majority (71%) of marriages were ‘love’ marriages, except in the Moor community where 84% were ‘arranged’ marriages. Overall, the national consanguinity rate was 7.4%. It was significantly higher among ethnic Tamils (22.4%) compared with Sinhalese (3.8%) and Moors (3.2%) (p < 0.001). Consanguinity rates were also higher in ‘arranged’ as opposed to ‘love’ marriages (11.7% vs 5.6%, p < 0.001). In patients with β-thalassaemia, the overall consanguinity rate was 14.5%; it was highest among Tamils (44%) and lowest among Sinhalese (12%). Parental consanguinity among patients with β-thalassaemia was double the national average. Although consanguinity is not the major factor in the transmission of the disease in the country, emphasis should be given to this significant practice when conducting β-thalassaemia prevention and awareness campaigns, especially in high-prevalence communities.

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CHANGES IN MARRIAGE PATTERNS AMONG THE ARAB COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL OVER A 60-YEAR PERIOD

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932015000103 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 283-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Rajech Sharkia ◽

Muhammad Mahajnah ◽

Esmael Athamny ◽

Mohammad Khatib ◽

Ahmad Sheikh-Muhammad ◽

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Keyword(s):

Educational Level ◽

Consanguineous Marriage ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Face To Face ◽

Marriage Patterns ◽

Consanguineous Marriages ◽

Time Period ◽

Level Data ◽

Long Time ◽

Time Periods

SummaryThe aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and trends of various types of consanguineous marriage among the Arab community in Israel over a long time period (1948–2007) by religion and educational level. Data were collected by face-to-face interview of 3173 Arab couples living in Israel in 2007 and 2008. The trend in consanguineous marriages was found to decrease significantly over successive time periods, from 42.5% to 30.9% (p=0.001), and the prevalence of first-cousin and closer marriages decreased, from 23% to 12.7%. Consanguinity was found to be significantly related to religion (p=0.001) and wife’s level of education (p=0.028).

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Polygamy Comes Home to Roost

Missiology An International Review ◽

10.1177/009182967600400407 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 443-453

Author(s):

Hubert Horan

Keyword(s):

Control Problem ◽

Birth Control ◽

Marriage And Family ◽

Cultural Attitudes ◽

Marriage Patterns ◽

Attitudes Toward Marriage ◽

Traditional Marriage ◽

The Church

This article is only partly about the Church in Africa — and the theological and pastoral dilemmas it faces in its encounter with traditional marriage patterns. It is also about the Church in America — and the similar dilemmas we face in coping with altered cultural attitudes toward marriage and family. Fr. Horan is very candid as he makes telling pastoral analogies between the birth control problem his tradition now faces in America, and the polygamy problem all churches face in Africa. Protestants can take no comfort as they mull very similar analogies in the sticky divorce problems that deeply affect all traditions in America today. With good humor, yet in deep seriousness, Professor Horan urges further and truly sensitive studies, at both theological and pastoral levels, which may prove at least as helpful to our own dilemmas as to those of Africa.

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EFFECTS OF POLYGYNY AND CONSANGUINITY ON HIGH FERTILITY IN THE RURAL ARAB POPULATION IN SOUTH JORDAN

Journal of Biosocial Science ◽

10.1017/s0021932003005911 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 513-526 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

SHUJI SUEYOSHI ◽

RYUTARO OHTSUKA

Keyword(s):

Marital Fertility ◽

Fertility Rate ◽

Natural Fertility ◽

High Fertility ◽

Arab Population ◽

Consanguineous Marriages ◽

Interview Survey ◽

Traditional Marriage ◽

Polygynous Marriage ◽

Marital Fertility Rate

Based on the authors’ interview survey for 608 randomly selected women of the rural Arab population in the South Ghor district of Jordan, this paper examined the effects of polygyny and consanguinity on high fertility, which was recognized as natural fertility. The prevalence of polygynous and consanguineous marriages was 28·0% and 58·1%, respectively, largely reflecting the population’s traditional marriage customs. The findings highlighted a significantly higher total marital fertility rate (TMFR) in the monogamous wives (10·5) than in the senior polygynous (8·1) and junior polygynous wives (8·6); the TMFR did not significantly differ among the wives of non-consanguineous, first-cousin and second-cousin marriages. The formation of polygynous marriage was decided by the husband, mostly as a result of his senior wife’s infecundity or sub-fecundity, and the age of the husband at marriage to his junior polygynous wife was high in many cases, leading to a decline in this wife’s fecundity.

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Problems of Marriage and Self Surrender in The Novels of Shashi Deshpande

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10183 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (11) ◽

pp. 18

Author(s):

Dr. Indu Goyal

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

The Other ◽

Important Thing ◽

Female Protagonists ◽

Central Concern ◽

Modern Age ◽

The Family ◽

Traditional Marriage ◽

Shashi Deshpande ◽

Middle Class People

Marriage is an important thing in the life of a woman. The importance that our society attaches to marriage is reflected in our literature and it is the central concern of Shashi Deshpade’s novels. In our society where girl learns early that she is ‘Paraya Dhan’, and she is her parents’ responsibility till the day she is handed over to her rightful owners. What a girl makes of her life, how she shapes herself as an individual, what profession she takes up is not as important as whom she marries. Marriage is the ultimate goal of a woman’s life. This paper attempts to probe into the problems of marriage through the protagonists of her novels where one enjoys the freedom of marriage and the other accepts the traditional marriage. Shashi Deshpade highlights the problems of marriage faced by middle-class people in finding suitable grooms for their daughters. This problem is well-illustrated through the characters of her novels. Since the girl’s mind over her childhood is tuned that she is another’s property, she tries to attach a lot of importance to it. it is indeed a tragedy that even in the modern age, Indian females echo the same sentiment where it was marriage which mattered most of them but not to the men. It is a beginning of females sacrifices in life that marriage brings to her. Shashi Deshpande encourages her female protagonists to rise in rebellion against the males in the family matters, instead she wants to build a harmonious relationship between man and woman in a mood of compromise and reconciliation.

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Perempuan dan Liminalitas dalam Tradisi Perkawinan Adat di Timor Tengah Selatan

Anthropos Jurnal Antropologi Sosial dan Budaya (Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology) ◽

10.24114/antro.v6i1.17047 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 114

Author(s):

Marsel Eliaser Liunokas

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Research Method ◽

Literature Study ◽

Qualitative Research Method ◽

South Central ◽

A Value ◽

Traditional Marriage ◽

The Village ◽

As If

Timorese culture is patriarchal in that men are more dominant than women. As if women were not considered in traditional rituals so that an understanding was built that valued women lower than men. However, in contrast to the article to be studied, this would like to see the priority of women’s roles in traditional marriages in Belle village, South Central Timor. The role of women wiil be seen from giving awards to their parents called puah mnasi manu mnasi. This paper aims to look at the meaning of the rituals of puah mnasi maun mnasi and the role and strengths that women have in traditional marriage rituals in the village of Belle, South Central Timor. The method used for this research is a qualitative research method using interview techniques with a number of people in the Belle Villa community and literature study to strengthen this writing. Based on the data obtained this paper shows that the adat rituals of puah mnasi manu mnasi provide a value that can be learned, namely respect for women, togetherness between the two families, and brotherhood that is intertwined due to customary marital affrairs.

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Birds of a Feather Flock Together: An Analysis of Marriage Patterns in the United States

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2712524 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Edoardo Ciscato ◽

Simon Weber

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Marriage Patterns

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The effects of health shocks on family status: do financial incentives encourage marriage?

The European Journal of Health Economics ◽

10.1007/s10198-021-01319-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andree Ehlert

Keyword(s):

Financial Incentives ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Health Shocks ◽

Family Status ◽

Female Partners ◽

Political Implications ◽

Financial Benefits ◽

German Socioeconomic Panel ◽

Unobserved Effects ◽

Traditional Marriage

AbstractThis paper asks whether marriage decisions of unmarried mature couples are driven by the prospect of financial advantages for the later widowed after one partner has suffered a serious health shock. We hypothesize that, in contrast to traditional marriage models, such health shocks may induce unmarried couples to obtain economic benefits, such as survivors’ pensions in particular, through marriage in advance of one partner’s death. This question has not yet been studied empirically. Hazard models capturing unobserved effects are applied to longitudinal data of the German Socioeconomic Panel. It turns out that the probability of marriage after male partners’ health shocks can increase significantly depending on the amount of expected survivors’ pensions for the (likely) surviving female partners. In contrast, an increased probability of marriage after health shocks to women (depending on the expected financial benefits to men) was not found. These findings are supported by various robustness checks. Economic and political implications are discussed and the results are placed in an international context.

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