Marriage and Commitment: Benefits of Long-term Committed Relationships
Couples often describe the middle stage of married life as not better or worse, just different. Being in a loving, committed relationship benefits health and longevity, emotional well-being, sexual satisfaction, financial and career achievement, an...
Marriage and Commitment: Why Do People Marry?
Most people today would say they married for love and the desire to spend the rest of their lives with the object of their affection Historically, however, marriage was an economic bargain, a means of establishing property and power and perpetuati...
Marriage and Commitment: How Expectations Set the Stage for Marriage
Real-life couples share their expectations of marriage as featured experts talk about the realities of married life. Perhaps the greatest misconception that newly marrieds have is the belief that relationships grow without effort. Counselors stres...
Singlehood...: Demographics and Myths of Single Life
The single population in the United States includes a broad spectrum of people: the never marrieds, those who have been married but are divorced or widowed; and gays and lesbians who are not allowed to marry. Demographically, more women live alone...
Singlehood...: Why People Cohabitate
In the last fifty years, the number of cohabiting singles in the United States has mushroomed. Among whites, cohabitation is an experiment, a kind of trial marriage. For African- or Mexican-Americans, cohabitation is more often an alternative or su...