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The Timing of Cohabitation and Engagement: Impact on First and Second Marriages
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Stanley, Scott M.; Rhoades, Galena K.; Amato, Paul R.; Markman, Howard J.; Johnson, Christine A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
Using a multistate sample of marriages that took place in the 1990s, this study examined associations between premarital cohabitation history and marital quality in first (N = 437) and second marriages (N = 200) and marital instability in first marriages (intact N = 521, divorced N = 124). For first marriages, cohabiting with the spouse without…
Descriptors: Divorce, Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage
Parents' Discord and Divorce, Parent-Child Relationships and Subjective Well-Being in Early Adulthood: Is Feeling Close to Two Parents Always Better than Feeling Close to One?
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Sobolewski, Juliana M.; Amato, Paul R. – Social Forces, 2007
We assessed the associations between parents' marital discord and divorce, patterns of parent-child relationships, and adult children's subjective well-being. Parental divorce and marital conflict appeared to increase the odds that children were close to neither parent in adulthood. Parental divorce (but not marital conflict) appeared to increase…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Divorce, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
A Comparison of High- and Low-Distress Marriages that End in Divorce
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Amato, Paul R.; Hohmann-Marriott, Bryndl – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
We used data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households to study high- and low-distress marriages that end in divorce. A cluster analysis of 509 couples who divorced between waves revealed that about half were in high-distress relationships and the rest in low-distress relationships. These 2 groups were not artifacts of…
Descriptors: Divorce, Marriage, Marital Satisfaction, Marital Instability
Wives' Employment and Spouses' Marital Happiness: Assessing the Direction of Influence Using Longitudinal Couple Data
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Schoen, Robert; Rogers, Stacy J.; Amato, Paul R. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The authors investigate the direction of the relationship between marital happiness and wives' full-time employment using the 1987 to 1988 and 1992 to 1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. First, the authors predict change in wives' employment between the two waves using marital happiness and other Time 1 characteristics.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Spouses, Employment Level, Marital Satisfaction
Decreasing Nonmarital Births and Strengthening Marriage to Reduce Poverty
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Amato, Paul R.; Maynard, Rebecca A. – Future of Children, 2007
Since the 1970s, the share of U.S. children growing up in single-parent families has doubled, a trend that has disproportionately affected disadvantaged families. Paul Amato and Rebecca Maynard argue that reversing that trend would reduce poverty in the short term and, perhaps more important, improve children's growth and development over the long…
Descriptors: Divorce, Sex Education, Poverty, Marital Satisfaction
Feeling Caught between Parents: Adult Children's Relations with Parents and Subjective Well-Being
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Amato, Paul R.; Afifi, Tamara D. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
Research on divorce has found that adolescents' feelings of being caught between parents are linked to internalizing problems and weak parent-child relationships. The present study estimates the effects of marital discord, as well as divorce, on young adult offspring's feelings of being caught in the middle (N=632). Children with parents in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Marital Satisfaction, Divorce, Parents