Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterpartsMARRIED womenBIOLOGICAL fitnessMALESFEMALESSPERM competitionHuman males are considered to be more competitive than females. However, females must also compete for resources necessary for their own and their ...
Women who were mothers and still in their first marriage ("married with children") were somewhat healthier and happier than others. However, women with only a high school education, even when "married with children," were at a fourfold risk of depression compared with college-educated women, ...
Therefore the variable '"number of children ever born" was not entered in the logistic regression model. As can be seen from Table 2, variables such as the literacy status of women, the decision making regarding one's own health, husband-wife age differences, the occupation of the husbands,...
The analysis is conducted using a dataset of 9127 individual pregnancy intervals from a 2002 statewide representative survey of 2444 women aged 15–39 with at least one child. The results indicate that women's preferences go beyond a singular preference for male children, with the preferred ...
This chapter focuses on the negative results of early and child marriages on women and children, drawing mainly on women’s stories gathered by the authors. Although the average age of marriage for females has risen dramatically over the last decades, ea
“I would like to get married and have children,”says Mary Ott. “But I expect to make sacrifices in my career, It's going to be difficult.” Ott has just finished college and plans to go to medical school. William Lynch has also just graduated and started working. “I certainly want...
Historically, a woman's property has often, but not always, been under the control of her father or, if she was married, her husband. Until the passage of specific laws, a husband had legal ownership over his wife's personal property and managerial rights over her real property. Children,...
PIP: Studies in Taiwan indicate that the practice of birth control increased, the preferred family size declined, and the preference for sons decreased from 1965 to 1973. The proportion of young women who were married decreased as did the birth rate between 1965 and 1972. Illegal abortion contin...
"You take less risks, you earn more money at work, and you live a little longer. She, on the other hand, has to put up with that, and dies sooner than if she never married. The healthiest and happiest population...
help move children and young adults out of poverty, it is all the more inspirational to read these letters, understanding the difference a letter can make, to see someone take a risk and pursue something that will help others from her community, while fulfilling her own dreams and aspirations...