Discusses students' decisions to marry. Breaks down students' reasons for marriage into basic considerations: emotional, social-psychological, moral-ethical, and materialistic. Relates marital harmony to motives of the couple in marrying and circumstances promoting the marriage. Concludes that marriage should be preceded by an appropriate length…

Describes marriage and family in the Soviet Union today. Urges families to have three or more children despite a present trend toward two children per family. Encourages men to make an effort to share housekeeping chores with their wives. Discusses housing shortages, leisure activities, and divorce patterns. Suggests intermarriage as a social and…

Focuses on survey of characteristics of Soviet student family as specific social phenomenon with socially homogeneous character. Urges early marriage, larger families, and intercultural marriage. Concludes that marital problems are based on premarital notions that fail to correspond with reality. Finds that motives for marriage, character of…

Emma Minde (nee Memnook)was born in 1907 in Saddle Lake, Alberta. In 1927 she was given by her father in an arranged marriage to Joe Minde, who lived in Hobbema, Alberta. In this recorded autobiography taped in 1988 when she was 81 years old, little is said about her parents and her life as a child other than that she spent 7 years at a…