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Probing polygamous marriages in Zimbabwe
… the daily experiences of people in polygamous marriages face on a daily basis. It argues that there are more disadvantages for women in polygamous marriages than their counterpart in monogamous relationships. The study further suggests that the patriarchal power structure seems to take a …
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The question of mixed marriages in Malta
Mixed Marriages are those wherein one of the parties is Roman Catholic and the other party is not a member of the Catholic Church. The validity of these so-called Mixed Marriages, was the object of a legal controversy in these islands in the second half of the last century. Diplomatic relations …
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Primary Causes of Divorce in Teenage Marriages
The problem. Teenage marriages are the least permanent of any in this society according to government information. What are the causes of the high level of dissolution among teenage marriages? This study sought to discover the primary causes of divorce in teenage marriages. Procedure. A …
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Arranged marriages among first generation Indian Americans
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1994.
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… sexuality, religion, and politics. Fictional marriages, therefore, traditionally signal a return to social order, an affirmation of the dominant values of a given culture. Some writers, however, especially those writing on or about the American frontier, recognized in the institution potential …
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Inside Interracial Marriages: Accounts of Black-White Couples
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the chronic daily concerns that eight self-identified Black-White interracial couples described as stressful and to identify the coping strategies that they utilized to reduce feelings of distress. Another goal of this study was to discover …
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Identity, intimacy, and marital satisfaction in midlife marriages
The purpose of this study was to examine the structure of the midlife marriage, focusing on identity, intimacy, and marital satisfaction. The investigator sought to identify the identity issues that midlife men and women are experiencing, describe the intimacy issues they face as couples, and show …
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Stress and Coping Techniques in Successful Intercultural Marriages
The number of intercultural marriages has grown significantly in the past few decades, as have the numbers of intercultural couples presenting for marital and family therapy. Current literature on intercultural relationships states that they are at a high risk for failure, with higher divorce rates …
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A critical analysis of bilateral (dual) marriages in Zambia
… customary law. The resultant effect is that such marriages are contracted under both laws thereby creating a ‘dual-legal’ marriage. In this research a dual marriage will conveniently be termed ‘bilateral marriage’ for ease of reference.
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A study of marital satisfaction in graduate student marriages
… examine marital satisfaction in graduate student marriages and the variables that relate to marital satisfaction. At a large southwestern university, some 161 married couples in which at least one partner was a student in medical school, law school, or other graduate program were assessed. The …
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Buffering Effect of Relational Support in African American Marriages
… as relational support can buffer partners and marriages from the negative consequences of stress. Socio-emotional relational therapy (SERT) provides marital and family therapists with a model of relational support in couple relationships. SERT's definition formed the basis for the …
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Alienation and Isolation in Interracial Marriages in East Tennessee.
<p>I conducted this study to determine if African American men and women who marry white men and women in East Tennessee perceive experiences of isolation and alienation from their families and friends as a result of their selection of a mate from a race other than the one into which they were …
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Cognition, emotion, and interaction in distressed and nondistressed marriages
A long tradition of research on marriage has established that maritally distressed and nondistressed couples differ in the behaviors they exhibit while interacting. In contrast, relatively little is known about the variables that give rise to behavior in interaction, the expectations that spouses …
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Savoring the Shared Life: Strengthening Marriages Through Collaborative Legacy Writing
What’s the story of our marriage? What lessons do we want to leave behind? What’s our shared legacy? This paper presents a narrative positive intervention called Collaborative Legacy Writing (CLW) as a savoring and meaning-making tool in married life. Legacy writing is the act of chronicling, …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… and national background. Analysing mixed marriages according to the institutional affiliation to Islam and Orthodox Christianity captured Christian - Muslim intermarriage with different Muslim populations: Near, Middle East and South East Asian Muslim-born immigrants, native minority …
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