Clark Shelley, Kabiru Caroline, Mathur Rohini
Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Global Health, Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University, Stephen Leacock Building, Room 713, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7, Canada, , ,
J Marriage Fam. 2010 Feb 1;72(1):73-88. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00684.x.
The process of courtship and marriage in sub-Saharan Africa has changed remarkably. These changes, however, have received scant attention, as recent research has focused on adolescent relationships' links to HIV/AIDS rather than to marriage. Drawing on detailed reports of 1,365 romantic and sexual partnerships from youths in Kisumu, Kenya, we find that marital aspirations, school enrollment, emotional attraction, pregnancy, and independence from kin are all predictors of getting engaged or married. Furthermore, though men and women are much more likely to marry partners they believe are sexually exclusive, men who have multiple partners are actually more likely to get married. By focusing on the contemporary process of marriage, this paper offers an alternative portrayal of premarital relationships in sub-Saharan Africa.
撒哈拉以南非洲地区的求爱和婚姻过程发生了显著变化。然而,这些变化很少受到关注,因为最近的研究集中在青少年恋爱关系与艾滋病毒/艾滋病的关联上,而非与婚姻的关联。基于对肯尼亚基苏木1365对浪漫和性关系的详细报告,我们发现结婚意愿、入学情况、情感吸引、怀孕以及脱离亲属独立生活都是订婚或结婚的预测因素。此外,尽管男性和女性更倾向于与他们认为保持性专一的伴侣结婚,但拥有多个伴侣的男性实际上结婚的可能性更大。通过关注当代婚姻过程,本文对撒哈拉以南非洲地区的婚前关系给出了另一种描述。