If the widow decided to remarry, the inheritance from her late husband had to be divided among the children.
Thus, women had greater rights to divorce, remarry, or remain single than has previously been believed.
Her best chance to stay was to remarry somebody who was able to take over her former husband's work duties.
But institutional pressures ensured that on widowhood such opportunities dwindled, and there was every incentive to remarry.
Relative to the youngest age group, virilocally married women aged 35-44 were 76 per cent less likely to remarry.
She could even remarry and still remain running the holding while her son or daughter from the first marriage was growing up to adulthood.
The informant responds that he guesses his father was, that he thinks he was remarried then.
Individuals in first or remarried relationships showed a marked increase in depressive symptoms following separation that was absent in those in cohabiting relationships.
