A good online resource

Shokat,  Take a look at: http://www.questia.com/read/58745078 It is a link to this book: Justin McCarthy, " The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923,  Longdman, London, 1997  Chapter 8 (p259-282) on Turkish Society and Personal Life, discusses the following: Marriage and the family, Polygamy, Divorce, The Turkish family, Male and female, Authority in the family and the separation of the sexes, Religion and society, Rearing children, Life and death, Birth, Death, The structure of the population.