This study examines how three late Ottoman women's periodicals, Mehasin , Siyânet , and Kadınlar Dünyası , reimagined family life between 1908 and 1921. Using qualitative document analysis, 159 issues (2,176 pages) were screened, and relevant texts were examined using inductive thematic analysis. Four themes emerged: critiques of patriarchal households, family partnership through women's social and economic contributions, consent and legal personhood in marriage, and educated womanhood as a foundation for family renewal. Rather than rejecting the family, these periodicals challenged women's dependence and male authority, envisioning reciprocal family relationships and positioning family reform within the framework of late Ottoman feminist thought.
This study examines the prevalence of child marriage in the late Ottoman Empire through four primary marriage-permit registers (Tarsus nos. 419 and 401, Adana no. 138, Bakırköy no. 675) comprising 1,751 permits, none recording a case of child marriage. The finding is compared with previously examined Trabzon and Beşiktaş registers and against other scholars’ work on Antalya and Rize/Pazar. A second strand analyzes official correspondence between provincial and central authorities during the Second Constitutional Era, showing that the state framed child marriage through public-health rather than juristic terms. Within the urban registers examined, child marriage emerges as an exceptional practice.
This article examines how Kadinlar D & uuml;nyasi, an Ottoman women's periodical, linked women's labor to dignity, economic independence, family welfare, and collective rights between 1913 and 1921. Through document analysis, 209 issues were identified. Four themes emerged: work as a humane right; education, vocation, and independence; labor as the basis of family welfare and national progress; and collective organization. The journal portrayed employment as a challenging dependency and enabled women to become contributors to households and communities. Across wartime and postwar conditions, this discourse reimagined marriage through reciprocity while justifying women's work through its usefulness to families and the nation.
Fertility preference significantly influences population dynamics in the northeastern states of India. This study examines fertility preferences among currently married women aged 15-49 using four rounds of National Family Health Survey (1998-2021). Based on binary logistic regression analysis, there is an increasing preference for stopping childbearing after one or two children, reflecting the adoption of small family norms. The total fertility rate also declined across most states. Education, wealth, religion, gender composition and parity significantly shape fertility preferences in the region. Persistent son preference and socio-economic progress continue to influence ongoing fertility transitions in the northeastern states of India.
This article examines consanguineous marriage in Turkey between 2010 and 2025 using official statistics from the Turkish Statistical Institute. It distinguishes between flow measures, referring to newly registered marriages, and stock measures, referring to the currently married population. While consanguineous marriages among newly registered marriages declined from 5.9% in 2010 to 3.0% in 2025, the share among the married population changed only modestly, from 8.5% in 2019 to 8.0% in 2025. Provincial patterns reveal persistent regional concentration, especially in southeastern Turkey. The findings show that family change in Turkey is uneven, cumulative, and regionally differentiated.
