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The recent literature on the effects of welfare on marriage and fertility includes studiesemploying a wide variety of methodologies and data sets and covering different time periods. A majorityof the studies show that welfare has a significantly negative effect on marriage or positive effect...
This report documents the effects of domestic violence on children and establishes the need for child protection workers to address spouse abuse when assessing and treating families. Children living in homes where domestic violence occurs are often abused by the batterer or the battered spouse,...
Infidelity is a major cause of divorce and spousal battering. Little is known, however, about which individuals are susceptible to infidelity, or about the relationship contexts that promote infidelity. This study of 107 married couples examines three sets of possible predictors of infidelity:...
This fact sheet provides information and statistics on marital distress and divorce. References are included.
This booklet offers couples information on skills to strengthen their relationships. It contains six lessons focusing on specific topics or areas of couples' relationships. The topics include how to fight right, learning to listen, expressing yourself, managing expectations, learning to balance...
Marriage provides one route out of poverty and long-term reliance on welfare, yet little is known about the factors that encourage or impede marriage among poor, young women. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine first marriage transitions for poor young women and...
A series of studies examined the impact of family type on the well-being of adolescents. The studies involved a national sample of adolescents (ages 12-18) living in the four most prevalent family structures in the United States: intact, first-married family units; divorced, single-parent...
This fact sheet reports the findings of a study that examined the family experiences of 194 male children at age 10 to predict their later involvement in delinquent acts (police arrests) at age 17. Findings showed that being in a stepfamily, rather than residing with both biological parents,...
Findings from a study that investigated the effects of remarriage on coparenting are shared. The study followed divorced persons whose marriage ended in 1986 for 3 years. At that point 28.5% of the women and 38.3% of the men had remarried from the 372 women and 277 men involved in the study....
To explore how stepfamily members think about the role of the stepparent and how consistent they are in their views, a study was conducted with 40 stepfamilies in Missouri. In each stepfamily, the stepparent, parent, and one stepchild between the ages of 10 and 19 completed a series of...