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My first qualm: the survey requires that I provide my first name, last name and e-mail. I would prefer to remain anonymous. Is my anonymity guaranteed?
A security code box was present when registering. I just left it blank, received the register confirmation email and completed the survey successfully.
Right after hitting the submit button when registering, saw the following error at the top of the page:
Notice: Undefined index: secanswer in /home/goodwife/public_html/survey/register.php on line 51
Using Firefox 3.0.1 for linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071222 Firefox/3.0.1)
I am surprised that professional researchers from universities as well as immigration attorneys could not come up with any better title for this survey than the humiliating Mail Order Bride. :thumbsdown:
Why could not they name this survey as Cross-Cultural Marriages Survey?
One comment: question A010 asks whether we were married previously to someone from our culture. What if a person married twice and both times were cross-cultural?
My first qualm: the survey requires that I provide my first name, last name and e-mail. I would prefer to remain anonymous. Is my anonymity guaranteed?
A Note On Privacy
This survey is anonymous.
The record kept of your survey responses does not contain any identifying information about you unless a specific question in the survey has asked for this. If you have responded to a survey that used an identifying token to allow you to access the survey, you can rest assured that the identifying token is not kept with your responses. It is managed in a separate database, and will only be updated to indicate that you have (or haven't) completed this survey. There is no way of matching identification tokens with survey responses in this survey.
A security code box was present when registering. I just left it blank, received the register confirmation email and completed the survey successfully.
Right after hitting the submit button when registering, saw the following error at the top of the page:
Notice: Undefined index: secanswer in /home/goodwife/public_html/survey/register.php on line 51
Using Firefox 3.0.1 for linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071222 Firefox/3.0.1)
I have filled the survey, but I see that the option that is available in some countries to live together without marriage is not included.
True statement. Since the focus of the survey is on Marriage and Divorce, it follows that those 'events' are necessary for the results to be valid.As under Dutch law there is an equality between married and non-married in laws, apart from some financial support the full traumas might apply. A non-married couple has the status of a married couple, and all assets gained during the time of living together are common, unless otherwise registered. Only the financial support of the ex-partner has less hooks than the ex-spouse.
By that I mean - since one of our principal objectives was to generate data/stats about divorce rate, the person needs to be married first to then later be divorced (or not). In those countries where living together is possible, if the couple decided to split, there is (presumably) no formal divorce proceeding and likely that the traumas (and stigmas) of divorce are not attached to the break-up - at least, not to the same extent.
Anyway - that was the thinking.
- Dan
As under Dutch law there is an equality between married and non-married in laws, apart from some financial support the full traumas might apply. A non-married couple has the status of a married couple, and all assets gained during the time of living together are common, unless otherwise registered. Only the financial support of the ex-partner has less hooks than the ex-spouse.
However as it will be compared to the majority of the survey an odd-case, I see no problem in your thinking.
I hope that your definition of an IMB included dating sites without extended services on purpose. Sites like bride.ru are marriage brokers in a way that they provide a platform for meeting and communications, and there for anyone using such sites should reply YES to using an IMB.
In general this is a deviation from the common practice where dating sites are not seen as agency. However I do agree with the definition.
Well this is kind of interesting. I got an email from a site "goodwife" asking me to take this survey. I don't recall ever visiting the site but you know how that goes. Anyway I looked at the site for a minute and the MOB and in the survey combined with the request for personal info and hit the don't send me any more mail button and a comment about the MOB name in the survey. So, this is a legitimate survey?
Dan
Survey completed
Brian
Although I am no longer a member of Elena's models, my profile still remains. Today I received an email from them asking me to participate in this survey. Since I am not married, I cannot. It appears they are working with RWD to gather as many participants as possible.
Dan,
Your statistical sample seems plenty large enough now that anymore replies should not alter the results. When will you compile and let us see the results?
I have been sent an email, it looks like it might have been from Dan to participate
in this survey. But since I'm not married or haven't been married to an RW I don't
see how I could help by taking the survey.
Just my two kopecks,
Bill
I am surprised that professional researchers from universities as well as immigration attorneys could not come up with any better title for this survey than the humiliating Mail Order Bride. :thumbsdown:The first thing I've got stuck is this Title- Mail order bride.
Why could not they name this survey as Cross-Cultural Marriages Survey?
The first thing I've got stuck is this Title- Mail order bride.
My daughter, as young adult, said to me when I began my wife search in the FSU that she heard that Russian women could be purchased from a catalog at prices starting at $1,000.
I would like to see this site and others, go on a campaign to stamp out the use of the demeaning terminology. Writing letters to editors, etc.
While it may attract attention, it also perpetuates myths and negative stereotypes which affect our families.
Dan, where are the results of the survey to date? Or, could you provide the link to see the results of the survey? Thanks
Bruce,
I have been advised to not release any interim results. We have collected about one-third of the target number of respondents, so I expect we will need some weeks/months of data collection before we can perform the analysis and then publish the results.
- Dan
:selfharm: Nagging questions by the feminist group?!!!
put 'em all to rest now.. Why don't they just join in ;D