Home  About us  Contact
 

Delayed Marriage (delayed + marriage)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Delayed Marriage and Very Low Fertility in Pacific Asia

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 3 2007
Gavin W. Jones
The general decline in fertility levels in Pacific Asia has in its vanguard countries where fertility rates are among the lowest in the world. A related trend is toward delayed marriage and nonmarriage. When prevalence of cohabitation in European countries is allowed for, levels of "effective singlehood" in many countries of Pacific Asia have run ahead of those in northern and western Europe. This raises questions about the extent to which delayed marriage has been implicated in fertility declines, and whether the same factors are leading both to delayed marriage and to lowered fertility within marriage. The article argues that involuntary nonmarriage is likely to be more common in Pacific Asia than in Western countries, and that resultant involuntary childlessness plays a substantial role in the low fertility rates currently observed. [source]

Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)Empowerment in the Lives of Single Palestinian Women

IDS BULLETIN, Issue 2 2010
Penny Johnson
There are rising numbers of single women across the Arab world. While this is usually connected with delayed marriage, Palestine shows a unique pattern of early but not universal marriage. This article looks beneath the statistics to investigate the stories behind this trend. How do young unmarried women negotiate boundaries and understand and enact choice in the context of a society experiencing prolonged insecure and warlike conditions, political crisis and social fragmentation and where the high number of unmarried women can be an increasing locus of moral panic? In conducting focus groups with two generations of women, my research looks at the prevailing importance of education, civil society and security in negotiating space within women's lives and uncovers a long tradition of unmarried women leading full and significant lives which needs to be recovered from the past. [source]

Delayed Marriage and Very Low Fertility in Pacific Asia

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 3 2007
Gavin W. Jones
The general decline in fertility levels in Pacific Asia has in its vanguard countries where fertility rates are among the lowest in the world. A related trend is toward delayed marriage and nonmarriage. When prevalence of cohabitation in European countries is allowed for, levels of "effective singlehood" in many countries of Pacific Asia have run ahead of those in northern and western Europe. This raises questions about the extent to which delayed marriage has been implicated in fertility declines, and whether the same factors are leading both to delayed marriage and to lowered fertility within marriage. The article argues that involuntary nonmarriage is likely to be more common in Pacific Asia than in Western countries, and that resultant involuntary childlessness plays a substantial role in the low fertility rates currently observed. [source]

Examining cross-border marriages in Hong Kong since its return to China in 1997

POPULATION, SPACE AND PLACE (PREVIOUSLY:-INT JOURNAL OF POPULATION GEOGRAPHY), Issue 5 2008
Ge Lin
Abstract With increasing economic integration and social interactions between Hong Kong and Mainland China, cross-border marriages between the two have increased substantially, while the sex ratio of the 25,44 age group has decreased to less than one. The influx of Mainland brides, together with ever-increasing unmarried women in Hong Kong, have put increased pressure on its social and welfare services, and reducing barriers for Hong Kong men seeking Hong Kong women has a significant bearing on social policies. Based on a theoretical perspective that combines assortative mating and societal disparity, the current study examined cross-border marriages in Hong Kong between 1998 and 2005. It was found that Hong Kong grooms with Mainland brides were less likely than Hong Kong grooms with Hong Kong brides to be assortative in terms of education, occupation and natal community. It was also found that Hong Kong grooms often married much younger brides due to their own delayed marriages and second plus marriages. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]