Pay Attention to Vulnerable Groups & Safeguard Citizens' Marriage, Family Rights——On New Marriage Law

Marriage and family remain a universal and eternal subject of study. It covers law, ethics, sociology, psychology and even economics. Law and ethics play the most outstanding role in it. Family ethics and moral standards constitute an important part of social ethical system while marriage and family constitute part of the legal system nearest to the life of the common people. Since the founding of New China, the Party and the State have paid full attention to the marriage and family system. Compared with other laws, the law about marriage and family was the first to be legislated. On May 1, 1950, New China’s first law, the 1950 version of Marriage Law, was promulgated. Commenting on the legal document, Chairman Mao Zedong had this to say: Marriage law concerns

Walking Out of the Family Towards Rights

WALKING in any city or ruralarea in China today, one will seewomen with confidence andpride, with their own work and lives.There is not much difference between theurban and rural women in dress. Theirfaces portray contentment and happiness.These are significant changes which havebeen brought about by women walking outof the family over the past near 50 years,and getting involved in society, alteringtheir dependence on men and making thempeople of dignity. The government knew clearly that

Clinical and familial study of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

Objective To explore the characteristics of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) Methods Seven patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and 34 members of three families were studied All patients and family members underwent history collection, clinical examination, electrocardiogram (ECG), two dimensional echocardiography (2 DE) and a signal averaging electrocardiogram Programmed ventricular stimulation was performed in five patients Results All patients and family members had normal morphologic characteristics and normal function of the left ventricular by 2 DE Fourteen persons had abnormal findings indicating ARVC Five had enlargement of the right ventricular with diffused hypocontractility, eight had thin and systolic bulging in the focal anterior wall with hypokinesia and one had bulging of the inferior wall Twenty five persons (seven patients and 18 family members) had abnormal findings in ECG Positive ventricular late potential was recorded in 13 persons (six patients) Two to three monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) with left bundle branch block (LBBB) configurations were induced in five patients Ventricular fibrillation was induced in two patients during the electrophysiologic study (EPS) Five patients had very high pacing threshold and/or ineffective pacing in one or many regions of the right ventricle Two members of one family died suddenly One member was a dwarf with ARVC Spontaneous VT with a left bundle branch block (LBBB) configuration was recorded in five patients, polymorphic VT with extremely short coupling interval in one, and premature ventricular complexes with LBBB configuration in 12 (six patients) Conclusion Our familial study strongly suggests that ARVC may be a hereditary disease and it is helpful in the diagnosis and detection of ARVC The most common manifestations were abnormal structure and function of the right ventricle and abnormal ECG of repolarization and ventricular arrhythmia which originates from the right ventricle