Introduction Marriage and family are key structures in many social orders. ... " Getting married is a legally and socially recognized status that is actually a contract between the concerned persons (usually two). ... The concept is explained by social conservatives as the structural units each playing its part like father, mother and children. ... In 21st century, this term has shaped even more complex definition because of complexity in social behaviors. ... However, this is a generalized concept and may not fit for every social life. ...

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A woman's domain was in private life, which was more of a social custom than an official doctrine. ... Since this service was a legal institution, a legal contract was drawn up to determine the conditions and responsibilities of the involved parties. Women in Egypt were consistently involved in contracts, including marriage and divorce settlements. ... Anyone who had drawn up a marriage contract would have to honor those terms; those who hadn't could invest in a legal document if they wish. ... She could appear as a contracting partner in marriage, divorce, adoptions and even ...

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Throughout the piece you see what Updike calls the "Social Contract" being broken. This "Social Contract" is the idea that each generation will improve from the last, and that the son with trust and respect his father. ...

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Social evolution and revolution, these two actions created a change in the American family after the War for Independence. ... On the other hand, if the children came from a poor family, where their parents could not support them , the state could remove the child, or children, from their family and contract them (by agreement) as an indentured servant. The contract often stipulated that the master was to provide education and training along with room and board. ... True, social equality was not to be found. ...

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The issue has taken the place of an important social problem. ... The contract was as following; when my father had enough profits to take care of my mother and raise a family they would get married. ...

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Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-capital accord emerged in the unionized core of the economy, particularly in manufacturing industries, in the immediate post-war period. It coordinated the interests of workers and employers by restructuring their relationships around a new social contract. ...

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It is an evaluation of my living status and social norms in the imperial times in China including the norms that the society held upon regarding men and women's statuses compared. ... Another important aspect of marriage within the history of the Chinese in the Ming dynasty is the aspect of marriage being a contract between one family and another but not between my husband and I. ... Besides the oppression that I underwent after marriage in line with the social status of my husband as already mentioned I was required to give birth to a son who would be the legitimate heir and carry on the...

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The social worker who works in the departmental or community agency who is responsible for the care placement also meets with both the child and the foster care family. It varies depending on what is agreed on in the contract and changes depending on the child's situation and also the needs of the foster family. ...

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While at war, George contracted a serious case of typhoid fever that turned out to be deadly. ... Some critics say that her novel was taken off the library shelves and she was not allowed into certain Louisiana social groups ("The Biography" NP). ...

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The reason for this was that social and religious custom did not approve or look kindly upon women or girls being in public with an uncovered head. ... Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ...

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However, when the grandparent contracts a fatal disease and suffers for the duration of the final stage of life, this can make the situation more overwhelming. ... His main social support, his wife, passed away in 1976 of heart disease. ...

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