Middle East Singles Are Breaking With Courting Traditions
December 15th, 2007 by GiGi
UAE nationals, it is generally considered impolite for a man to speak to a woman he is neither married nor related to in public.
But the cards, scraps of paper and mobile phone messages that pass from male to female are testament to the double existence of some young UAE nationals as they take their love lives into their own hands.
It happening in malls, cinemas and cafes - in Dubai’s notorious traffic jams, and now by mobile phone.
As part of a series on young people in the Middle East, the BBC News website discovers how technology is aiding the secret liaisons of young men and women in the conservative culture of the United Arab Emirates
Technorati Tags: Middle East, UAE nationals, BBC News, United Arab Emirates
IDS Tags: Arab, Articles, Dating, Love, Middle East, Muslim, Relationships, Singles
Posted in Articles, Middle East, Muslim
Studies from the Univerity of Chicago and Duke University show that people who had a disruption of marriage, like divorce or death, were in worse health than those who remained married. The quality of the marriage was also important to good health, with people in poor marriages in worse health than those in good marriages.The physical risks of chronic stress have been linked to a higher incidence of all sorts of diseases. The stresses and trauma of a divorce can affect health over long periods.