The Impact of Rising Costs of Marriage on Spinsterhood: A Social Study of the Economics of Marriage in an Egyptian Village

The study focused on the disclosure of the features of the economics of marriage in the village of Egyptian governorate of Damietta, and identified the fundamental problem in the study to identify the nature of the changes that have taken place to get married in an Egyptian village; as a result of economic and social changes witnessed by the Egyptian society in recent years. The main question that the study is trying to answer is: Are you influenced the high cost of marriage in the late age of marriage Study population? In this sense, the current study were taken from the economics of marriage as their theme. The study was conducted field on two axes: first, quantitative pull through sample is the likelihood of young people made ​​up of 200 young, were distributed at rates comparable between the sexes, and so by relying on a questionnaire codified in terms of consistency and honesty, the second axis: Keefe through interviews depth with (17) the case of female heads of households in the village by relying on an in-depth interview guide. And summarized the most important results of the study on: that there is a several variants of the economics of marriages in Study population (engagement, the marital house, a bride, a list of movables, the wedding night), and that the content of these variables are all Study population may hit several changes and turned it necessary to perfect, which doubled of material burdens on the couple, which caused a late age of marriage youth in the study population.