Showing papers on "Love marriage published in 2008"

The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

Abstract: Foreword by Veena Das Preface Introduction 1 'A Form of Marriage in Certain Cases' 2 Legitimating Love: Tis Hazari and the Judicial Process 3 Kidnapping, Elopement, and Self-Abduction 4 Failed Love Conclusion Bibliography Index

What's love got to do with it? Parental involvement and spouse choice in urban India

Abstract: “Arranged" marriages, characterized by strong parental control over mate choice, are the norm in India, although there is a steady transition towards autonomous “love” marriages, especially within the urban middle class. I construct a novel dataset by surveying 6,030 parents and adult children in Mumbai, India, to study selection into arranged marriage and its effects on spouse choice. I consider the choice between an arranged and a love marriage as the outcome of bargaining between parents and children, when agents have different preferences for spouse attributes. I find that stronger financial and kinship ties between parents and sons increase the likelihood of an arranged marriage. Furthermore, when parents are involved in mate choice, sons are significantly less likely to marry college-educated women and women engaged in the labor force, after controlling for individual and family characteristics. I show that these effects are driven, at least in part, by parental preferences and cannot be entirely attributed to correlation between arranged marriages and unobserved characteristics or preferences. These results suggest that lowering the incentive for parental control in mate choice may improve investments in women’s human capital in India.

Eros and Modernity: Convulsions of the Heart in Modern Korea

Abstract: Modern and Loving (in) it In a recent article sociologist Hahm2 charts the transition to current attitudes to marriage in Korea Love is essential, marriage is optional! Employment is necessary, marriage is a choice! These slogans clearly show the values of today’s younger generation Until recently, people married ‘‘as a traditional custom’’ Nowadays, more people give reasons like ‘‘to gain independence from my parents’’, ‘‘to gain psychological and emotional stability’’, or even ‘‘because I met someone I loved’’ (Hahm, 2003, p 26) Hahm writes of the decline of ‘‘arranged marriages’’ in favour of ‘‘love marriages’’3 According to the Korean National Statistical Office the proportion of ‘‘love marriages’’ has increased from 36 to 55 per cent in the last decade Based on survey data, Hahm contrasts traditional Korean marriage as a union of two families with modern Korean marriage as a union of two individuals founded on love (Hahm, 2003, p 29) Similarly, Kim found that three-quarters of the upper-middle class couples in her sample in Seoul in the 1990s had entered into love marriages (Kim, 1993) This provides a stark contrast to the world of rural4 Korea forty years ago, where love marriage could, in the most extreme cases, mean banishment (Brandt, 1971, p 96)

The goddess as role model : Sītā and Rādhā in scripture and on the screen

Abstract: INTRODUCTION PART 1. GETTING A LOVE MARRIAGE ARRANGED 1. Falling in love: Sita in the Flower Garden and Radha in the Forest 2. Arranging a love marriage: Sitas Self-Choice and RukmiAe?s Elopement 3. Wedding Promises: Sitas Wedding and Radhas Mock Wedding PART 2. THE CHALLENGES OF MARRIED LIFE 4. In Good Days and Bad Days: Sita and Radha Leave Purdah to Follow their Men 5. The Threat of the Other Woman: Free-spirited ??rpaAeakh? and Sophisticated Kubj? 6. Sexual Harassment: Sita Abducted and Radha Accosted at the Well

Expectations and child rearing practices of turkish urban middle class mothers

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate expectations and childrearing practices of Turkish urban middle class mothers along with some of their consequences Maternal expectations were explored in the domains of sex preference, educational attainment, marriage age and marriage type Parenting practices were compared on dimensions of control, affection, discipline and independence A short, third-person form of Block’s Child Rearing Practices Report (CRPR) and the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) were administered to 90 children, 13-16 years old, who were attending either eighth or ninth grade of two private high schools in Istanbul, and the ”Expectations questionnaire” was completed by their mothers The first hypothesis, proposing that mothers will prefer daughters over sons, was supported As predicted, mothers were found to hold egalitarian attitudes toward both sexes in educational attainment and marriage patterns Mothers expected both sexes to complete university education and encouraged sons and daughters to have a love marriage The results also supported the universal pattern that girls are expected to marry at a younger age than sons The impact of mothers’ parenting styles on daughters’ sex-role identification was also explored As hypothesized, daughters of affectionate and controlling mothers were found to endorse more feminine characteristics However, the hypothesis suggesting that mothers exert more