Religion and the Rainbow Struggle: Does Religion Factor Into Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Same-Sex Civil Unions in Brazil?

The provision of civil liberties to LGBT persons has become part of a global movement in societies across the world. In Brazil, a recent judicial ruling for the first time established the right for homosexual couples to enter into civil unions, despite the presence of widespread disapproval of homosexuality among the population and opposition from prominent religious groups. Picking up on this issue, the following study examines whether religion may factor into the attitudes Brazilians hold toward homosexuality and same-sex civil unions. Using data from the Brazilian Social Research Survey, we find that the most restrictive views toward homosexuality and the strongest opposition to same-sex civil unions are most prevalent among devoted followers of historical Protestant, Pentecostal, and Catholic faith traditions, whereas adherents of Afro-Brazilian and spiritist religions, as well as those with no religious commitment, are inclined to assume a more tolerant moral posture toward such issues. The findings point to religion as a potential influence in future public policy initiatives and social movements involving LGBT issues in Brazil.     

另一种移动：朝鲜族女性婚姻移民及其娘家的家庭战略

20世纪90年代至21世纪初,延边地区朝鲜族女性大量外嫁韩国。时至今日,外嫁热潮虽然旱已冷却,但是影响依然存在。通过对延边在住婚姻移民的娘家成员等的访谈,从婚姻移民的送出方,即家族的角度来探讨延边朝鲜族国际婚姻移动过程中的家庭战略,调查显示朝鲜族婚姻移民家庭战略的直接目标是在城市购买新房以及通过教育达到阶层上升,也引发了娘家男性和老年人的跨境劳务移动、跨境扩大家族的形成等间接效应。同时,朝鲜族婚姻移民家庭在遇到期待落空等问题时,通过婚姻移动经济劣势方的逆向补偿及跨国打工持久化等来调适。朝鲜族女性婚姻移民的家庭战略主体既是个人又是家族,家族扮演了父权制家长的角色,但家族的利害关系和个人的利害关系在某种程度上又是一致的。     

周代政治中的族姓有别现象述论

~~周代政治中的族姓有别现象述论@谢乃和$北京师范大学历史系!北京100875~~~~[1]黄怀信．逸周书汇校集注[M]．上海：上海古籍出版社， 1993． [2]吕不韦．吕氏春秋[M]．北京：中华书局诸子集成本， 1954． [3]司马迁．史记[M]．北京：中华书局，1959． [4]顾栋高．春秋大事表[A]．清经解续编[C]．上海：上海书 店，1988． [5]杨伯峻．春秋左传注[M]北京：中华书局，1990． [6]韦昭注．国语[M]．上海：上海古籍出版社，1998． [7]孔颖达．毛诗正义[M]．北京：中华书局，1980． [8]刘向．列女传[M]．沈阳：辽…     

先秦政治婚姻初探

就族类、中原诸侯国关于夷狄的概念及国势而言,先秦政治婚姻大致可分为七种类型;先秦各国主要出于结交军事同盟、恃大国以图存、取人之国、巩固盟约、解除兵威、酬恩报德等目的而联姻,但各种联姻的性质却不尽相同。先秦政治婚姻呈现出多元化、多方位,“媵”婚现象比较突出,小国往往被婚姻大国所灭,强国干预弱国内政等特点。尽管先秦时期的政治婚姻与汉唐和亲有很大差别,但前者对后者的影响却是非常明显的。     

从脑科学研究的角度看婚姻暴力的成因

婚姻暴力的产生不仅受到社会政治、经济、文化的影响,还与施暴者的大脑结构有关。如果大脑的功能出现障碍,会加大使用暴力的可能性。国外脑科学家认为通过对有暴力行为的患者进行脑部检查,并施以药物治疗,改善大脑功能,就能有效中止暴力行为。     

Child Support, Fatherhood, and Marriage: Findings from the First 5 Years of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

In this article, we review what has been learned to date from the first 5 years of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study about child support, fatherhood, and marriage. The article first describes the parents' circumstances at the time of the child's birth, then examines the trajectories of parents' relationships (with each other and others), fathers' financial contributions and other indicators of fathers' involvement with their children 5 years later; and finally reviews what has been learned about the effect of child support enforcement on these three aspects of families' lives. We find that most unmarried parents are either cohabiting or romantically involved at the time of the child's birth, but are a distinctly disadvantaged group as compared with married parents. Five years later, most of these parents are no longer romantically involved, however, most of the fathers are still seeing their children on a regular basis, and about half are contributing either formally or informally to their support. Strong child support enforcement appears to increase formal and decrease informal support from fathers, reduce marriage among parents, and have a weak positive effect on father involvement. More research is necessary to understand whether these findings are robust over time and across samples of unmarried parents.     

关于结婚条件的几点立法思考

对我国现行的结婚条件及其立法进行分析,提出了完善我国结婚条件的立法建议:以禁止性规定的方式来要求结婚的必备要件;扩大禁止结婚的消极要件的范围;实行登记与仪式相结合的结婚程序;增设结婚登记公告制度。     

失衡·守望·弥合——《另几种结局》中的复调小重奏

纳丁·戈迪默的小说《另几种结局》以复调小重奏的形式演绎了现代婚姻生活中的酸甜苦辣故事,其并列而看似无联结的三段生活截影分别探讨了婚姻的失衡、守望者的幸福以及风雨过后的圆满等多重主题。小说复调形式既很好地诠释了人生多样性、复杂性等多重意义,又实现了作家意在表达多元化的艺术化书写构想。     

Recent European fertility patterns: Fitting curves to ‘distorted’ distributions

Recent patterns of fertility in Europe show marked differences between countries. Recent United Kingdom and Irish fertility curves show ‘distortions’ in terms of a ‘bulge’ in early age fertility, distinct from the smoother curves of other European countries. These patterns may not be adequately described by mathematical functions used by previous studies to model fertility curves. A mixture model with two component distributions may be more appropriate. The suitability of the simple and mixture Hadwiger functions is examined in relation to the fertility curves of a number of European countries. While the simple Hadwiger model fits recent period age-specific fertility distributions for some countries, others which display a ‘bulge’ in early age fertility require a mixture Hadwiger model. Some of the parameters of the Hadwiger models appear to be related to familiar demographic indices. The simple and mixture Hadwiger models appear useful in describing and comparing fertility patterns across European countries.     

中国婚姻史上的杂婚和血婚问题

关于人类婚姻起源于普遍的杂婚的说法是充满严重缺陷的古典进货论指导下的产物，它在全世界范围内缺乏坚实证据。近年来仍有人试图网罗一些经不起推敲的材料予以证明。对这一在人类学界已无足重的理论，中国婚姻史学界若不进行深刻的反思，很可能还会支配21世纪的研究工作。