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Just Get Me to the Church: Assessing Policies to Promote Marriage among Fragile Families [PDF]
This article examines alternative approaches to encourage family formation among fragile families, including higher cash benefits, more liberal acceptance of welfare applications, more effective child support enforcement, and efforts to increase ...
Chien-Chung Huang, Ronald B. Mincy
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ABSTRACT Bankruptcy and financial distress commonly precipitate suicidal crises, putting bankruptcy attorneys in potentially difficult situations with clients. This qualitative study explored attorneys' experiences with clients' risk for suicide and attorneys' recommendations for suicide prevention.
John R. Blosnich +4 more
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Public Perceptions of Marital Rape: Does Level of Force Used Have an Impact?
ABSTRACT Research indicates that marital rape is viewed by the public as less harmful to a victim than stranger/acquaintance rape. The aim of the study is to extend the research conducted by Robinson in 2017, investigating how levels of force influence perceptions of marital rape.
Leanne Hanney, Amy Shelford, Andy Guppy
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New Findings on Child Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa
Despite increasing global attention and commitments by countries to end the harmful practice of child marriage, each year some 15 million girls marry before the age of 18.
Suzanne Petroni +4 more
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Protecting girls in Bangladesh’s tea garden communities: ends and means [PDF]
According to UNICEF, Bangladesh has the fourth highest rate of child marriage in the world. In this article, Zerina Shabnaz Akkas and Khurshed Alam discuss the different understandings of ‘girl child protection’ among NGOs and the tea communities ...
Alam, Khurshed, Shabnaz Akkas, Zerina
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ABSTRACT Existing research examines the relationship between personal life shocks and financial well‐being primarily through the lens of objective markers of the individual's financial situation (e.g., liquidity). Little attention has been paid to the relative roles of these objective markers and more intuitive or affect‐based factors in how an ...
Jordan Bell +2 more
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The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies on the Timing and Incidence of Marriage Following a Nonmarital Birth [PDF]
Researchers and policy makers have long been concerned that government policies may influence individual behavior in unintended ways. In particular, they worry that by providing mothers with an income that is independent of marriage, welfare and child ...
Cynthia Osborne +4 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
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More on Marriage, Fertility and the Distribution of Income [PDF]
According to Pareto (1896), the distribution of income depends on ``the nature of the people comprising a society, on the organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on chance.'' In the model developed here the ``nature of the people'' is captured by
Jeremy Greenwood +2 more
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Status Anak yang Dilahirkan dari Perkawinan Wanita Hamil Karena Zina Menurut Kompilasi Hukum Islam dan Undang-undang Nomor 1 Tahun 1974 Tentang Perkawinan [PDF]
The result of the research shows that the regulation on pregnant woman who gets married because of adultery, according to Law No. 1/1974, is not explicitly regulated, but it is implicitly regulated in Article 2, paragraph 1 which stated that a marriage ...
HANUM, F. (FARIDA)
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