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Md.Kaderi Kibria Faiza Farah Tuba Saeed Hossain
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Introduction
Our topic is age difference on marriage and mainly focuses on
Patterns (2000) based on 236 countries indicate husbands are older than their wives except one country.
This husband-wife age gap tends to be larger in developing
countries especially African and Asian nations, while in developed countries it tends to be smaller.
Research Objective is to explore the topic i.e. exploratory research.
Literature Review
Couples in conjugal family systems usually marry later and the spousal age difference is not significant; couples in joint family systems usually marry earlier and the spousal age difference is significant, while age at marriage and spousal age difference for couples in stem family systems are usually moderately significant (Laslett, 1983).
In addition to marriage form, individual and family factors also influence age at marriage. The individual factors mainly include education level, income, occupation, etc. Among these individual factors, education plays the most important role for it can not only influence the independence of ones behaviors but also determine ones income and occupation to a certain extent (Oppenheimer, 1995 pp. 94-95).
Also the age difference between partners appears to influence bargaining power of spouses (Friedberg and Webb, 2006).
Social scientists use the Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM) to compute the average age individuals marry.
Cougars refers to marrying older women or having younger husband. Intimacy is a particularly close interpersonal relationship that involve physical or emotional attachment.
Social acceptance of marriage where husband junior than wife i.e. cougars and peoples perception about it.
Relationship between love marriage & same age marriage how much intimacy and what is the utility in terms of happiness. Pros and cons of Age-Homogamy.
Methodology
Research Strategy
Mixed Research Strategy
Flexible.
Research Method
Survey
General feedback
Considering the limited time and resources, survey is the best possible method.
Sample Strategy
Convenience and Purposive Sampling
Characteristics of Sample
Single Married a)With age difference b)Same age c)Duration of marriage d)Age gap
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Findings
matters. They believe physical growth, sense of maturity and responsibility comes with age. On the other hand those who believe that age has nothing to do with marriage they said that, mentality of two people, understanding between them is more important than anything else.
lack of respect arises in same age marriage. Where the married males only realized that decision making is the main problem. Single females said both problems of lack of respect and problem in decision making equally. Only one married female believed that lack of trust is a problem is same age couple
single and married said that the good side of same age marriage is more friendly relation. Single females said that ease in adjustment is more important. Married female respondent emphasized more on both friendly relation as well as adjustment easiness.
respondents do not think that there should be a legal gap between spouses, some thinks the reverse. Interestingly, both married males and females have the same opinion about this legal difference.
33% people disagreed, that it is not acceptable in our society to marry a woman who is senior to man.
Only 7% participants strongly opposed this. On the
other hand 23% are in favor of marring a man junior to his wife.
There will be an impact on children if there is a difference between father & mother
In general, the highest
percentage of contributors said that they are neutral about it. Among them most are females. On contrast 39% male respondents agreed to this issue that there are some impacts on children if there is a gap between parents.
the participants strongly disagreed to this issue, but 11% male disagreed. 67% female and 50% male agreed that love marriages are among same age people. Very few respondents are neutral in their answers.
with the fact that they are very satisfied. 36% are satisfied and only 1 man who consisted 7% said he is neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.
64% respondents showed themselves as very satisfied
How married respondents evaluated their married life in different areas (Contd.)
Surprisingly both male and female respondents
have exactly the same proportionate opinion about the excitement in their married life. In terms of intimacy 4 men and 3 women said that they are very satisfied. Again, 3 men and more women said that they are satisfied. Lastly in terms of companionship, most respondents are very satisfied. Only one female is neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.
Discussion
Discussion
Most people prefer an age gap of 2 years between
spouses. Age matters for 50% people and among them majority are males. The males showed biological and psychological needs behind the age matter issue. Whereas, women said, maturity, sense of responsibility comes with age.
Discussion (Contd.)
People who said that age does not matter for them
mentality of individuals as well as understanding between partners are more important than age.
Majority of the respondents does not see any problem in
the good sides of same age marriage, though they prefer an age gap of 2 years between spouses.
On the other hand women whose husbands are senior to
Discussion (Contd.)
For men lack of respect is the main problem in same
age marriage. On contrast, females said decision making is the bigger problem.
The good sides of same age marriage according to
most females are friendly relation, ease in adjustment and decision making equally. Whereas, for males friendly relation is the biggest advantage of same age couples.
Legal gap for marriage is not a desired by any segment
of the respondents. But those who said this gap should be legalized among them majority are single females
Discussion (Contd.)
Majority of the people are neutrals regarding the
issue of marrying a man junior to woman. Those who disagreed with this are mostly single males.
Most respondents agreed that love marriages are
among same age people and nobody strongly denied this issue.
Married Respondents
Married males and females irrespective of their age, age
gap with partners and duration of marriage, are mostly very satisfied in their conjugal life in terms of happiness, friendship, excitement, intimacy and companionship.
Only one female respondent who is the youngest among
all the married participants consider herself neither satisfied nor dissatisfied in terms of excitement and companionship in her wedded life.
and 22 years of duration of marriage claimed to be very satisfied in all the attributes surveyed.
All the married females without any age gap with their
At the end
Conclusion
Women prefer to have an age difference between
their husbands and themselves because they believe that maturity and sense of responsibility comes with the age. So, maturity and sense of responsibility is an important issue for women in case of finding life partner.
Male participants gave importance on mentality of
Conclusion (Contd.)
Single female participants tend to have more
problems than male participants regarding same age marriage. But all the married females without any age gap with their husbands considered themselves very satisfied in all the issues .So, it can be deduced mutual understanding can solve the uncertainty of maturity and sense of responsibility.
The problem of marriage can be solved by ensuring
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