marital problems

collocation in English

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marital
adjective
uk
/ˈmær.ɪ.təl/
us
/ˈmer.ɪ.t̬əl/
connected ...
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problem
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɒb.ləm/
us
/ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
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(Definition ofmaritalandproblemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In addition, and especially for women, they may be disadvantaged within the family, should there be marital problems.
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For example, cross-sectional studies suggest marital problems may be a mechanism of risk for children exposed to parental drinking.
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And, prior to the 1940s, marital problems rarely made it to public courts, as such conflicts had usually been solved within the family.
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Women's paid labor force participation is touted as leading to women's mental health problems, marital problems, and problems in children.
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Among those, however, whose child was less than 2 years old, 84% were nursing it; (ii) some of the pregnancies may have been unwanted because of marital problems.
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Four tried to make contact with siblings or children but were unsuccessful or turned away, and in four cases the children had personal and marital problems which spoilt the relationship.
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Families were randomly assigned to receive parent training alone or parent training plus marital enrichment and were blocked on marital problems (with half of each group experiencing significant marital distress).
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This reason fails to address the sources of the marital problems, and the added stress of raising the child might make the marital relationship even more difficult.
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Individuals get themselves into muddles with their marital problems, with debt and with a myriad of other matters.
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We need to explore ways of reaching couples before marital problems become marital crises.
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It requires facilities within which social, interpersonal, family and marital problems can be worked on by counselling.
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It is essential that resources are available to guide them when they may be suffering medical, social, economic or marital problems.
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Any of us having experience of friends with marital problems knows that that is the first response.
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He said that it was unwise to treat marital problems in terms of guilty or innocent parties.
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There are, of course, numerous causes of violence to chidren, including alcoholism, marital problems, immaturity, inadequacy, unemployment, poor housing and poverty.
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The man also has grave marital problems.
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The theme of the work has to do with a woman who becomes a social outcast because of marital problems.
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In the anime, their marital problems lead to their divorce.
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