The authors used data from the Add Health study to estimate the effects of parents' marital status and relationship distress on daughters' early family formation transitions. Outcomes included traditional transitions (marriage and marital births) and nontraditional transitions (cohabitation and nonmarital births). Relationship distress among…

Understanding attitudes toward marriage at older ages is increasingly important as young adults delay marriage and large numbers of people return to the marriage market after divorce. This study examines age differences in the desire to marry among singles age 18 to 69 years, taking into account selection into marriage. Using data drawn from the…

Life satisfaction, trust, optimism, and political conservatism differentiated remarried, married, divorced and never-married groups. Divorced people were less satisfied with life, more liberal, and less optimistic. Background factors that were related to divorce included parental divorce, hometown, family income, and church attendance. (Author)