Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...on-pledgers, they start having sex later, and they marry earlier, so they should have lower STD rates, but they don't." One reason is that sexually active pledgers were less likely to use condoms at first sex than non-pledgers. Because most pledgers are sexually active (88 percent of the pledgers), lower ...Religion guides views of fertility treatment in Middle East
...wever, since a married Shi'ite Muslim woman cannot marry another man sperm donation from a man other than her husband is akin to adultery. Middle Eastern societies expect all married couples to produce biological children, since legal adoption as it is practiced in the West is prohibited in both Sunni and ...Urban areas organized in well developed partnering 'markets'
...o. While people of other generations tended to marry shortly after entering the workforce and remained married to the same partner, today's marriages occur later in life and are often briefer, requiring a new dynamic in the ways in which people meet and form relationships, said University sociologist E...Albertans accepting of people with schizophreniabut won't marry one
...on. And when participants were asked if they would marry someone with the disease, advocates from the schizophrenic society were less likely to say yes than were members of the general public. Thompson's findings show the mentally ill are not held in the same negative regard as they were 20 or 30 years ag...Research shows that male smokers who want a long life should get married
...that men who smoke but who want a long life should marry without delay as marriage reduces the risk of death by even more than the act of smoking increases the risk of dying. University of Warwick researchers Professor Andrew Oswald and Dr Jonathan Gardner examined the data from the British Household Panel...Older age of male partners makes young women more susceptible to HIV-1 infection
...ut many further infections result when these women marry and have children. Breaking this link in the pattern of transmission must become a central focus of HIV prevention strategies."...Can poor growth explain link between marital status and health?
...boys whose growth was slowest were least likely to marry and that death rates from heart disease and stroke were higher in unmarried men than in married men. However, they suggest that differences associated with marital status in rates of heart disease or stroke are unlikely to have their roots in early ...Strong relationship between peasant farmers and city-dwellers in Zimbabwe
...laden with goods purchased in the city. Men mainly marry women from the same district. Often city-dwellers choose to return to the countryside due to family ties and because their ancestors are buried there. Sometimes people exchange a well-paid job in the city for a poorly paid position in the village whe...