Examples of marital

• Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract.

• Among female roles, the proportion with an unstated marital status was not as large as for male roles (38 per cent).

• We had to exclude eight couples from our secondary analysis due to technical problems or changes in marital status since the re-interview stage.

• When cousins marry there is a tendency to solve marital problems within the family and thereby avoid divorce.

• In this study it is unclear whether marital violence, family upheaval, or homelessness accounts for the observed deficits in children's social competence.

• State courts continued to recognize the unique position of the marital contract into the twentieth century by acknowledging its public purposes.

• There were no significant differences in marital status or total time receiving hospice care.

• Boundaries can also operate at the level of the family, separating the marital and parent- child subsystem.