This article presents findings about problematic issues from a national study of couples married five years or less. It argues that the top 10 issues identified as problematic suggest key content areas for premarital education and makes suggestions for both program development and existing program evaluation. The top three issues reported by this sample are […]
The National Marriage Projects’s list of ten myths of divorce including social, emotional and financial consequences.
Prior studies on alcohol use and marital functioning have largely overlooked the possibility that these variables operate differently in Latino and European American couples. The present study addresses this gap by examining the role of alcohol-related problems and anger as correlates of marital satisfaction among newlywed monoethnic Latino couples (n = 13), biethnic Latino couples […]
The proportion of births that occur outside of marriage in the United States has climbed over the past 30 years, reaching 37 percent in 2005. This pattern is a cause for concern because children born to unmarried mothers fare worse, on average, than do their peers who are born to married parents. The context of […]
Communication Smarts focuses exclusively on the communications parts of PREP, which have beenadapted especially for use with teens. The unit offers a concise and coherent package of communicationand conflict management skills. These activity-based lessons make teens aware of the patterns that canwreck relationships and then teach teens a set of skills for reducing, stopping, and […]
This article presents the results of a pilot study of the Marriage Moments program, designed to prevent relationship deterioration during the 1st year of parenthood. The self-guided, low-intensity program emphasizes strengthening marital virtues and partnership during this time of significant personal and family transition. One hundred fifty-five married couples participated in a randomized clinical trial […]
This memo summarizes themes and guidance on the topics of engaging Hispanic families, developingprogram structures, and establishing trust with program participants as it relates to marriage programs asdiscussed during the Administration for Children and Families Hispanic Healthy Marriage Researchmeeting. The findings and recommendations in this memo are drawn from discussions at the SupportingHealthy Marriage and […]
The effectiveness of premarriage education is limited by whether couples at high risk of future marital problems attend such education. In the current study, 374 newly married couples were assessed on a range of risk factors for future marital problems as well as whether they had attended marriage education. Couples with certain indices of relationship […]
This report, part of a series that presents population and housing data collected by Census 2000, presents data on the marital status of people aged 15 and over. It describes marital status distributions forthe United States, including regions, states, counties, and places with populations of 100,000 or more. Highlights include marital status patterns by age,sex, […]
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a premarital educational program, with the secondary goal of determining if the structure (conjoint versus group) and the participants’ gender influenced program effectiveness. Data were collected from 29 heterosexual couples. Couples were placed in one of three conditions: (1) premarital education in a group […]