Studied the spillover between family and work by examining the link between marital status and work performance across marriage, divorce, and remarriage. A polynomial regression model was fit to the data from 78 evaluations of an individual professor, and a cubic curve through the 3 periods was statistically significant. (SLD)

Three-hundred-and-thirty undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a confidential anonymous 26 item questionnaire designed to assess the effect of parental divorce/remarriage on the relationship with their respective parents and on their own romantic relationships. The data revealed several significant relationships-respondents…

The authors examined the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use on employment, marriage, and family formation and tested both dropping out of high school and adult marijuana use as potential mediators of these associations among a community sample of African Americans followed longitudinally from age 6 to age 32-33. They used propensity …

There has been an enormous increase in the number of unmarried cohabiting couples in Sweden and Denmark and a decrease in the marriage rate. Is unmarried cohabitation a deviant behavior? This question is discussed and the answer is given that in Sweden it is not. (Author)

Marriage, childbearing, and employment patterns of women initially surveyed during their entrance to college in 1961 and subsequently surveyed in 1965, 1971, and 1974-5 were investigated. Subjects were questioned on marital status, number and timing of children in the family, employment patterns and shifts, job search patterns, preferred housework…

The lack of attention to the student marriage relationship and its impact is documented and guidelines for an outreach program involving married students are presented. Objectives of such a program include: (1) to study student marriages and define more clearly the psychological variables that constitute a growing, healthy marriage, and (2) to…

The present practice of surnaming, by which the wife takes on the name of her husband and the children take on the name of the father, favors one of the sexes over the other. In this paper, the egalitarian surnaming system (ESS) is proposed. This system deals equally with the sexes and also serves important social functions, such as providing a…

Implicit in much theoretical literature on marital relations in dual-career families is the hypothesis that marital stress and dissatisfaction would be attendant if working wives were higher in occupational prestige than their husbands. Two sources of the hypothesis are reviewed; no support is found for the hypothesis. (Author)

Aspects of American society conducive to separation, sources of strain between partners, beliefs and norms about marital permanence, and evidence as to dissolution precipitating events are examined in the light of the papers in this issue, employing the four factor Kanter model. (Author/AM)

Examined historical changes in Canadian women's nuptiality patterns (first marriage rate and age at first marriage) from 1921-1925 to 1981-1985. Found long-term patterns of nuptiality were functions of increasing individualism, increasing singulate sex (masculinity) ratios, and war and economic depression. Results support five social…

This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyze marital adjustment in the post-retirement years. This provides a foundation to enrich the marital lives of older persons. (Author)

The authors speak, from personal experience, of the demands felt by divorced females, particularly those with children. They relate the emotional concern encountered and stress the point that their life is all their own now, with not only the challenge and the criticism but also the praise. (CJ)

This paper explores the earnings consequences of women's competing familial and work commitments. The analyses support the conclusion that currently-married women receive smaller economic benefits from schooling and occupational status because of interrupted labor force participation and familial constraints. (Author)

Examines association between intimate premarital relationships and subsequent marital dissolution. Results suggest neither premarital sex nor premarital cohabitation by itself indicate either preexisting characteristics or subsequent relationship environments that weaken marriages. Findings are consistent with the notion that premarital sex and…

Examines longitudinal data on college enrollment, marriage, and parenthood among 9,608 White high school graduates. Concludes that marriage and parenthood exert negative effects on the higher education of both men and women, with marriage being particularly detrimental to women's education. Contains 26 references. (SV)