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I use a divorce-stress-adjustment perspective to summarize and organize the empirical literature on the consequences of divorce for adults and children. My review draws on research in the 1990s to answer five questions: How do individuals from married and divorced families differ in well-being?...
Marital satisfaction, marital adjustment, and problem areas experienced during the early months of marriage were examined using a sample of 1,010 newlywed husbands and wives. Results revealed that between 8% and 14% percent of newlyweds already scored in the distressed range on measures of...
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort Mother-Child files to explore the idea that child well-being can be improved by encouraging and enhancing parental marriage. I consider how children's living arrangements, the stability of parental marriages, and...
This research links residence with biological and nonbiological married and unmarried parents to the cognitive achievement and behavioral problems of children aged 3-12, controlling for factors that make such families different. The data were drawn from the 1997 Child Development Supplement to...
Previous research on cohabitation and child well-being has primarily used cross-sectional analyses to understand how children in cohabiting families fare vis-à-vis their counterparts in other family types. So, we know little about transitions in cohabiting families and how these transitions...
Recent advances in brain research offer opportunities for developing greater insights and more impactful interventions to enhance therapy with couples. Research that has focused on exploring brain structure and the dynamic connection between emotional experiences and cognitive processes is...
Marital friendship is identified as the foundation for a sound marital house. Gender differences between husbands' and wives' involvement in the emotional domain of marriage are discussed. Research linking mens' involvement in the emotional domain to marital quality highlights the need to...
Describes and assesses the use of bonding and emotional expressiveness in a psychoeducational program for couples that was developed to teach skills in preventing marital breakdown, such as enhancing self-knowledge and the ability to sustain a pleasurable intimate relationship. Nine of 31...
Designed for marriage practitioners, this brief explains the influence of maturity on a person's ability to truly commit to a relationship for life and understand that commitment implies giving up all other partner choices. The impact of maturity on the ability to forgive, to take personal...
We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 7,686 ) to determine whether racial and ethnic differences in socioeconomic stress and social protection explained group differences in the association between family structure instability and three risk behaviors for...