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Between the late 1960s and late 1980s, research documented the lower social and economic attainment of adolescent parents. This article begins with a short review of the changing legal, social, and economic context of teenage childbearing. Since teenage mothers disproportionately come from...
The purpose of this study is to determine if premarital couples training in a relationship enhancement program changed characteristic needs in ways of relating to others. The study was designed to evaluate the effects on the interpersonal needs of control, affection, and inclusion in a group...
This article describes The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), an empirically based intervention program that has been designed to prevent marital distress and divorce. The results of longitudinal studies indicating PREP's short-term and long-term effectiveness are presented...
"Personal Reflections" is a program developed for remarriage education. The premise of the program is that those contemplating or entering remarriage should examine certain issues, especially making explicit each partner's expectations for how family roles should be played. The program is...
A model for conceptualizing relationship commitment is presented and the development of a measure corresponding to this model is described. Commitment is considered as two constructs: personal dedication and constraint commitment. In study one, items developed for the Commitment Inventory (CI)...