Exempel på widow

• He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.

• There once was a poor widow who had a beautiful daughter.

• It's a bloody disgrace that some war widows don't get a decent pension.

• A traditional Indian custom used to involve widows burning themselves alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.

• She is a member of a benevolent society for sailors' widows.

• Elderly widows (29%) were most exposed to inadequate care because of their low status in their families and among their spouse's kin.

• While daughters and married women rarely held or managed landed property on their own, the situation with regard to widows was very different.

• Among women, widows and the divorced and separated were more likely than mar ried women to reject an occupational for a personal pension.

• Two men who had become homeless after being widowed bought recipe books and learned to cook for the first time in their lives.

• Of the unmarried women, only 18.2% were never-married, whereas (unlike any of the men) 15.2% were widowed and 7.5% were divorced.

• One-half were married and the remainder were single, widowed, separated or divorced.

• Racial differences in the determinants of the living arrangements of widowed and divorced elderly women.

• Approximately one-half of the sample (54.2 %) were currently married, 38.0 per cent widowed and 7.8 per cent divorced, separated or never-married.

• The vast majority of adult descendants were married, widowed or divorced.

• Marital status was coded in four categories : single ; married ; separated, widowed or divorced ; and unstated.

• Marital status distinguishes between partnered men (married or cohabiting) and those who are currently widowed, divorced (or separated), or never married.

• About two-thirds were females (62%), 19% were married, 12% divorced, 35% widowed, and 34% were single.

• The editors emphasize that their subject is ' never-married ' women, not widows, whose situation differed significantly in the eyes of society and the law.

• Thirty-seven people said they enjoyed seeing friends for company and the opportunity to do things with others (particularly if they were widowed).

• Longitudinal changes in mental and physical health among elderly, recently widowed men.