Freedom Of Marriage Research Articles

From "Freedom of Marriage" to "Self-Determined Marriage": Recasting Marriage in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region of the 1940s

From "Freedom of Marriage" to "Self-Determined Marriage": Recasting Marriage in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region of the 1940s

Like daughter, like son? Fertility decline and the transformation of gender systems in the family.

BACKGROUNDAn important question for population research is whether fertility decline transforms gender systems.OBJECTIVEThis paper contributes to answering this broad question by examining how fertility decline may change the relative value and roles of daughters and sons in families. First, I outline theoretical pathways, suggesting that a key factor is the gender composition of families. As fertility declines, the proportion of families with children of only one gender increases, which may facilitate greater gender symmetry between daughters and sons. Second, I explore how fertility decline may have contributed to the transformation of the relative value and roles of sons and daughters in practice in one place.METHODSThe analysis draws primarily on semi-structured interviews with 30 respondents living in one Indian village. This village is located in a district where fertility has declined to at least the replacement level.RESULTSRespondents perceive changes in the gender system, including less son preference, more equal schooling for sons and daughters, more freedom in marriage and premarital relationships, and perhaps greater daughter support of parents in old age.CONCLUSIONSThe results describe changes in the relative value, treatment, and behavior of sons and daughters that are consistent with the theorized effects of fertility decline. Future research is needed, however, to determine whether fertility decline makes a causal contribution to changes in the gender system.

A Separation System For China's Mainland: Concept And Social Reality

Establishing a separation system on the basis of social reality in accordance with the legislative guideline of 'safeguarding marriage freedom, preventing wanton divorce' in Chinese marriage and family law will offer a period before divorce for spouses to reconsider their marriage relationship calmly so as to deal with family disputes cautiously, then decide whether to divorce or not. Hence, establishing such a system is beneficial to the interests of the parties and the children, and to the stability and harmonization of society. This article analyses the social basis of establishing a separation system in China's mainland, and explores current Chinese legislation on separation. It then proposes a separation system based on social reality in China. Language: en

Public Values and Private Lives: Cott, Davis, and Hartog on the History of Marriage Law in the United States

The late-twentieth-century contestation over the place of marriage in American social life, and more specifically in public policy and law, shows no sign of abating in the twenty-first century. Those who celebrate personal freedom in marriage and pluralism in family forms are at odds with those who worry about the collapse of social stability and personal morality. The rising divorce rate has led some people who are anxious to preserve marriage to lobby state legislatures to enact provisions for covenant marriage, which would not permit no-fault divorce and would require a waiting period before issuance of a final divorce decree. Congress drew the line against same-sex marriage by passing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996, attempting to insure that even if some states legalize same-sex mar-

Alone together: law and the meanings of marriage

Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist legal theory, and the debate between liberal and communitarian social theorists.

El miedo como defecto del consentimiento matrimonial

The concept of fear as a defect of matrimonial consent is developed by the personalist understanding of marriage which was introduced by the Second Vatican Council. The «personalist» aspects of marriage arose in the first post-conciliar period under the auspices of Pope Paul VI, it passed into the current code and still followed by the most reforming sector of the Canon Law Community. Fear as a defect of the will enters the teaching and the traditional understanding of defects, or vices, of the will, both in its substantive and descriptive aspects. It has special relevance in establishing the question to be determined, whether it is to be a ground in its own right, or subordinated to another or considered simultaneously with other defects of consent and its place in the sentence. The author, who belongs to an authoritative reforming school, considers fear as a radical defect of consent avoiding limiting it technically as a classical defect of the will and the pathological paradigm of freedom «»ab extrinseco». In this way the number of defects are reduced to error, defective consent and, for the great majority, partial simulation. A revision and purification of the legal elements of invalidating fear demands, at the same time, an integrating of the so called lesser fears into a single ground, and includes that good which is protected by this norm, which is the freedom of marriage.

Review of Adultery and other private matters: Your right to personal freedom in marriage.

Review of Adultery and other private matters: Your right to personal freedom in marriage.

Freedom of Marriage in Modern Chinese Law

It is a well-known fact that in all phases of Chinese life a radical change is taking place and the legal system does not form an exception. During this century, the old legal system gradually broke down and on May 5th, 1931, the new Law of Family and of Inheritance was introduced, thereby completing the Civil Code. It was based on principles fundamentally different from those embodied in China's ancient codes.

Monopolies and Monopolistic Practices

T HE desires and ingenuity of man, and our changing environment, create ways of life that are only roughly and inaccurately described by such words as individualism and collectivism. Increasing freedom in marriage, including freedom of divorce,' may increase the vitality and strength of the successful marriage; and it is quite consistent with the population control required by biological and economic conditions, and the needs of the modern state.2 Besides his family, a man's other great concern is of course making a living; and here too freedom and control occur in forms and combinations which adapt themselves to changing conditions, and the needs of national and international communities. Freedom of association among farmers and workers, relatively weak members of our economic organization, has been commonly regarded as consistent with the traditions of freedom characteristic of the United States. On the other hand, the freedom of the common man has been protected against the consequences of unlimited freedom of association among owners. Freedom of association has been limited in manufacture and trade by the Anti-Trust Acts; and even in such an industry as railroad transportation, it seems that a limit on association, together with regulation by a Commission, is provided for by the Transportation Act. In such industries as bituminous coal, crude oil, and lumber, the practical need for enlarged freedom of association has long been urged. In industry generally, from the relatively disorganized cotton textile industry to the relatively highly organized steel industry, a need for enlarged freedom of association seems to many to have been disclosed by the depres-

Studies in Eugenics

Previous articleNext article FreeStudies in EugenicsFrancis GaltonFrancis Galton Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 11, Number 1Jul., 1905 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/211373 Views: 306Total views on this site Citations: 8Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Kathryn Vaggalis Off-White Romantics: Cross-cultural Histories of Immigrant Picture Brides and the Process of US Race Making, Journal of American Ethnic History 40, no.33 (Apr 2021): 43–69.https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.3.0043Brian Tarran News, Significance 17, no.22 (Apr 2020): 4–5.https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01367Joaquim Filipe Peres de Castro A review on the early The American Journal of Sociology, Revista Latina de Sociología 7, no.11 (Nov 2017): 16–37.https://doi.org/10.17979/relaso.2017.7.1.2007CF Goodey Intelligence, Heredity and Genes: A Historical Perspective, (Feb 2015): 1–5.https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0006182.pub2Marius Turda The Pathos of Science, 1870–1914, (Jan 2010): 13–39.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281332_2Laura Vorachek MESMERISTS AND OTHER MEDDLERS: SOCIAL DARWINISM, DEGENERATION, AND EUGENICS IN TRILBY, Victorian Literature and Culture 37, no.11 (Mar 2009): 197–215.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150309090123Tim Hallett, Greg Jeffers A Long-Neglected Mother of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 37, no.11 (Feb 2008): 3–37.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241607303584CF Goodey Intelligence, Heredity, and Genes: A Historical Perspective, (Sep 2006).https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0006182