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Karney, Benjamin R.; Loughran, David S.; Pollard, Michael S. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Since military operations began in Afghanistan and Iraq, lengthy deployments have led to concerns about the vulnerability of military marriages. Yet evaluating military marriages requires some benchmark against which marital outcomes in the military may be compared. These analyses drew from personnel records from the entire male population of the…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Foreign Countries, Military Personnel, Marital Status
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Teachman, Jay – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, the author investigates the relationship between military service and the transition to the first intimate union. The author argues that active-duty military service promotes marriage over cohabitation. The results are consistent with this argument, showing that active-duty members of…
Descriptors: Military Service, Marriage, Interpersonal Relationship, Race