Romantic love most often happens to some extent idealized love, love of love, passion, heated by strong, exciting erotic feelings. Sometimes passion grows into true love for life, but it can just...

If romantic marriages are most often created on the basis of abstract dreams and tragic torments, then marriages are much closer to real life. Instead of blind adoration, partner-friends, who ...

Many practical problems in the field of family-marriage relations can be psychologically considered as different aspects of the problem of satisfaction with marriage. Despite the abundance of ...

The importance of the gender category for understanding the psychological characteristics of an individual and the specifics of his life path is proved by numerous experimental and theoretical st...

Panic conversations not only of philistines, but also of domestic demographers and sociologists about the family crisis can not but surprise. What is fueled by such pessimism? As a rule, during t...

WOMEN'S LABOR AND ROLE STEREOTYPES Economic growth in Western and Central Europe in the 50s, late 60s and early 70s.has generated a steady demand for women's labor. Women make up 37 to 43% of ...

People who marry for reasons of benefit, most often view this union as a practical solution to some particular problem. Historically, the oldest basis of marriage - the benefit - has taken variou...

Some restrictive traditions in marital relations, adopted in Europe, were transferred to the New World by the first settlers. For example, Calvin's dogmatic condemnation of intimate pleasures ...

In the era of the early Middle Ages, attitudes toward marriage were rarely associated with romance and love. Early Christians in general had a very vague and contradictory view of marriage. Th...

The family is not just a social group, but also a social institution. According to the definition of sociologists, the "institution" is a set of social roles and statuses, designed to meet a s...

People speak about feelings of love in different ways. The word "love" is used in a variety of meanings. Defining their relationship, men and women say that they fell in love or stopped loving...

The question of classification, family typology, on the one hand, is very important, because the presence of such a classification makes it easier for a person to find "oneself" in countless fami...

While anthropologists and sociologists have paid much attention to the comparison of family structures in different societies, most of the work in the field of family sociology is devoted to the ...

The ancient Greeks and Jews are historical contemporaries, but their notions of marriage were diametrically opposed. Greek civilization gravitated toward two main centers - Athens and Sparta. ...

In the prehistoric period, men and women hunted together, in small groups. Then it was necessary that someone hunted, and someone stayed at home to cook food and support the fire. About ei...

Among Americans, there is the largest number of marriages compared to other industrial countries( 10.6 per 1,000 people in 1981).High levels of marriages are also observed in the Soviet Union( 10...