09 Jan
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Healthy Marriages, Healthy Women and Girls: Research on the Alignment of Marital Outcomes, Marriage Education and Key Health, Social and Economic Factors Affecting Women and Girls

Is marriage a bad idea for women? Healthy Marriages, Healthy Women and Girls shows the research that women in a healthy marriage and girls raised in a healthy married home, experience a wide range of physical, emotional, financial and mental benefits. The Healthy Marriage Series is available in print (as booklets), digital (PowerPoint, Video and […]

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09 Jan
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Relationship Education and Teen Pregnancy Prevention: What’s the Connection?

Children who grow up in single-parent families are more likely to be poor, have trouble in school, and become teen parents themselves. Additionally, children who are born to a mother who is a teenager, who hasn’t finished high school, and who isn’t married are nine times more likely to be poor than a child whose […]

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09 Jan
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Is Marriage Good for Your Health?

This article reviews research on the health benefits of marriage and presents findings from a study that showed marital strife weakens the immune system and causes physical wounds to heal more slowly. An additional study is discussed that indicated when married people became single again they suffered a decline in physical health from which they […]

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09 Jan
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Marriage and Divorce in the National Guard and Reserves: A Fact Sheet

This fact sheet reviews marital statistics for members of the Reserve Component of the U.S. Armed Forces which is comprised of both the National Guard and the Reserves. It discusses the unique challenges facing military couples and then reports that the marriage rates for Reserve and National Guard members are similar to rates for civilians, […]

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09 Jan
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We Asked…You Told Us. Marital Status

This series of bulletins shows the questions asked in the 1990 census and the answers that you, the American people, gave. Each bulletin focuses on a question or group of questions appearing on the 1990 census questionnaires. This bulletin provides responses to the 1990 United States census question concerning marital status. (Author abstract modified)

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09 Jan
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The States of Marriage and Divorce: Lots of Ex’s Live in Texas

This report presents findings drawn from the recently released 2008 American Community Survey, which offers the most detailed portrait yet from the U.S. Census Bureau of marriage and divorce statistics at the state level. This is the first time the survey has included estimates of marriage and divorces within the previous 12 months, duration of […]

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09 Jan
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Marital Status and Satisfaction Five Years Following a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Traditional Versus Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy

Objective: To follow distressed married couples for 5 years after their participation in a randomized clinical trial. Method: A total of 134 chronically and seriously distressed married couples were randomly assigned to approximately 8 months of either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT; Jacobson and Christensen, […]

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