Marital Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Women’s Autonomy and Socioeconomic Situation Matter?

Takyi, Baffour K.; Broughton, C. L.

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“…Socialement, dans le contexte africain, le mari a l'obligation d'assumer les charges du ménage, à défaut, l'union peut être fragilisée. Par contre, l'autonomie financière des femmes augmente le risque de divorce (Dial, 2007 ;Takyi et Broughton, 2006). Toutefois, comme nous l'avons déjà souligné, les données du moment parfois utilisées sont inappropriées à l'étude du divorce.…”

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“…Une des hypothèses fondée sur la « théorie économique du mariage » attribue l'augmentation de l'instabilité des unions dans les pays occidentaux au cours du dernier siècle à la hausse du travail des femmes (Becker, 1974(Becker, , 1981Becker et al, 1977). Mais cette hypothèse a été peu confirmée par les études empiriques (Mongeau et al, 2001), même si quelques travaux sur la relation travail-famille des femmes l'ont testé (Spitz, 1988 ;Ruggles, 1997aRuggles, , 1997bTakyi et Broughton, 2006). Elle a d'ailleurs été très contestée par certains auteurs (Oppenheimer, 1994(Oppenheimer, , 1997a(Oppenheimer, , 1997b.…”

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Niveau et facteurs de ruptures des premières unions conjugales au Burkina Faso

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Legrand

2014

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Niveau et facteurs de ruptures des premières unions conjugales au Burkina Faso

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Legrand

2014

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“…31 Despite this shift, kinship ties are still influential in marital quality and stability. 28,32 One hypothesis is that strong allegiance to kin weakens the bond between married partners, especially in matrilineal kinships.…”

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Understanding Couples’ Relationship Quality and Contraceptive Use in Kumasi, Ghana

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Otupiri³

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Development (ICPD) shifted global thinking on reproductive health from a population-based approach to a rights-based approach. With this shift came a heightened awareness of how gender relations and equality can influence sexual and reproductive rights. The ICPD program of action declared that "human sexuality and gender relations are closely interrelated and together affect the ability of men and women to achieve and maintain sexual health and manage their reproductive lives." 1(p. 48) Promoting and achieving respectful and equitable gender relations through harmonious partnerships were key elements in several of the program's objectives. To fulfill the ICPD commitments, a better understanding of how partners relate to one another, how to assess relationship quality, and how partners' relations promote or inhibit sexual and reproductive desires and decisions is needed. These topics have received little research attention in Sub-Saharan Africa. In response to this gap in research, we designed this study to improve our understanding of how various dimensions of relationship quality of married or cohabiting partners in Kumasi, Ghana, are related to contraceptive use. We focus on five dimensions of relationship qualitycommitment, trust, constructive communication, destructive communication and satisfaction. Relationship Quality and Contraceptive UseAccording to the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund, 222 million women in developing countries had an unmet need for family planning in 2012; these women wanted to space or limit childbearing but were not using a modern contraceptive method.2 While rates of contraceptive use are increasing in some regions, West Africa has mainly experienced stagnant and in some cases decreased use of contraceptives. Extensive research has been conducted to identify characteristics associated with women's contraceptive use and nonuse throughout the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last two decades, research has increasingly focused on how contraceptive use may be related to couple characteristics and relationship dynamics. 3-9Nearly all sexual and reproductive decisions made within intimate relationships affect both partners, even when only one partner is making the decision. Women's lack of power and autonomy in intimate relationships has been recognized as a reality for many women in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the detrimental effects on their health and livelihood have been assessed. 6,10,11

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“…Obtaining accurate estimates of divorce is difficult due to data limitations, but it appears that divorce is quite common in SSA (Takyi & Broughton, 2006;Takyi & Gyimah, 2007). Estimates range between 25% and 60% depending on the demographic group under consideration.…”

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Difficulties Conceiving and Relationship Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana

Fledderjohann

2017

Eur J Population

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Little is known about the relationship between self-identified difficulties conceiving, biomedical infertility, and union instability in sub-Saharan Africa. Previous research suggests that infertility increases the risk of psychological distress and marital conflict, encourages risky sexual behavior, and deprives infertile individuals and couples of an important source of economic and social capital.Qualitative research has suggested that there may be a link between infertility and divorce; less is known about the implications of infertility for unmarried couples. In this paper, discrete-time hazard Results show a positive relationship between perceived difficulties conceiving and relationship instability for both married women and those in nonmarital sexual unions; this relationship, however, does not hold for biomedical infertility. Future research should examine this relationship using nationally representative data in a cross-national comparison to determine whether results hold across the subcontinent.

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Marital Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Women’s Autonomy and Socioeconomic Situation Matter?

Cited by 39 publications

References 45 publications

Niveau et facteurs de ruptures des premières unions conjugales au Burkina Faso

Niveau et facteurs de ruptures des premières unions conjugales au Burkina Faso

Understanding Couples’ Relationship Quality and Contraceptive Use in Kumasi, Ghana

Difficulties Conceiving and Relationship Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana

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