Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) indicate that in 1998 about 1 million violent crimes were committed against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends. Such crimes, termed intimate partner violence, are committed primarily against women. About 85% of victimizations by intimate partners in 1998, about 876,340, were against women. […]
This article presents information on marriage and mental health. In 1972 scholar Jessie Bernard coined the now famous phrase “”his and her marriage””. By this she meant that a man experiences his marriage very differently from the way a women experiences her marriage. Bernard argued that men do well out of marriage while women marry […]
The Power and Control Wheel was developed by battered women in Duluth who had been abused by their male partners and were attending women’s education groups sponsored by the women’s shelter. The Wheel is used in our curriculum for men who have used violence against their female partners. While we recognize that there are women […]
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) put the need for attitudinal change at the center of efforts to help welfare recipients become economically independent, avoid out-of-wedlock childbearing, and embrace marriage. In this paper, we focus specifically on attitudes, analyzing both differences in values and attitudes between welfare recipients and other women […]
This document puts to rest some of the myths that are associated with domestic violence. This fact sheet covers the occurence of domestic abuse, who the abuse affects, reasons for abuse, and the factors that cause women to stay in an abusive relationship. (Author abstract modified)
This new report by the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy — a project of the Rockefeller Institute of Government with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts to produce independent, non-partisan research on the role of faith-based social service providers in America — documents that the absence of new legislative authority has not stopped the Bush Administration […]
Marriage offers important social and economic benefits. Well-designed public policies could play a constructive role in helping couples develop the skills needed to develop healthy, sustainable relationships with each other and their children. It does not follow, however, that marriage promotion should be a significant component of anti-poverty policy. The current pro-marriage agenda in anti-poverty […]
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) asks persons aged 12 or older to report their tobacco, alcohol, or illicit drug use during the month prior to the interview. Tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), and pipe tobacco. Binge alcohol use is defined as drinking five or […]
A substantial body of empirical research has documented both the promise and the shortcomings of psychological interventions for preventing or ameliorating marital distress. Couple therapy reduces relationship distress and may affect individual psychopathology, such as depression. However, some couples are unresponsive and others improve but relapse later. Interventions to prevent marital distress usually produce short-term […]
We are researchers who study what makes marriages succeed and fail in order to develop strategies for helping couples have better marriages. In this report, you will read about key findings from a recent poll on marriages in America. Research like that in this poll can further our understanding of marriage and what can be […]