The negative consequences of child marriage have been widely discussed in the literature. It is associated with poor outcomes in terms of education, health, and selfempowerment. In this study, we analyze geo-located household panel data combined with wind field data generated by ground-based...

At the end of the 1970’s and the beginning of the 1980’s inflation in Israel exceeded 100 per cent. Using the twenty per cent samples of the 1972, 1983, 1995 and 2008 Israeli Census we show that inflation had a substantial negative effect on the decision to marry. More specifically, we show...

More than three decades after the birth of the first child conceived through in vitro fertilization, few states have comprehensive statutes to establish the parentage of children born using assisted reproduction techniques (ART). While thousands of such children are born each year, courts...

Who decides the right person to raise a child whose parents have died? Although many parents believe that the appointment of a guardian they make in a will for their child is binding, in fact courts in many states can choose to ignore parental wishes. Nearly half of U.S. states vest the power to...

The civil societarians claim the family as their domain, its salvation as their mission. The family is a foundational concept – the 'cradle of citizenship' – which teaches 'standards of personal conduct that cannot be enforced by law, but which are indispensible for civil society. Problems...

Words are only words. Standing alone, they often are not worth much more than the paper upon which they are written. Marriage itself is a legal relationship reducible to a piece of paper – the marriage license. It is the interpretation and implementation of that legal relationship that really...

The traditional family - a married woman and man and their biological children - is under siege from several directions. The percentage of American children born outside of marriage has climbed sharply, and the rise seems to be continuing inexorably. For traditional families that are formed,...