Presents data on current adoption seeking in summary fashion and confines analyses to likelihood of ever having sought to adopt using national survey data from 8,450 women. Analysis on ever having sought adoption indicated that adoption seeking is primarily a function of desire for children coupled with inability or difficulty in having them.…

Examined data from national survey of 10,544 households containing 20,505 children. Estimated that, in 1988, approximately 354,100 children were abducted by family members. Using more restrictive definition in which there is concealment, transportation to another state, or intent to keep child or permanently alter custodial privileges, there were…

Examined national sample of 680 married couples. Found that husbands believed in innate sex roles significantly more than wives did. Each partner's beliefs directly influenced the other's, controlling for age, education, and religion. The more one spouse believed that sex roles were innate, the more the other tended to believe in them also.…

Examined prevalence and determinants of stable unhappy marriage using data from national survey. Results indicated age, lack of prior marital experience, commitment to marriage as an institution, low social activity, lack of control over one's life, and belief that divorce would detract from happiness were all predictive of stability in unhappy…

Examined determinants of receipt of child support using data from national survey which included ever-divorced mothers (n=673). Results indicated receipt of child support was mostly dependent upon circumstances of fathers (income, marital status, physical proximity, and whether he visited his children). Circumstances of mothers and children had no…

Investigated perceptions held by childfree married males and females who were in their childbearing years of the costs and benefits of having children, using national survey data. Found childfree males were more pronatalistic than females: husbands rated general importance of having children greater than wives, and they were more apt to want to…

The relationship of marital status to well-being is investigated by comparing national survey responses of first-married, remarried, and currently divorced adults. Results indicate both important differences and striking similarities in well-being between the groups. (Author/BL)

Examined simultaneous effects of multiple indicators of wife's employment on marital disruption for women (N=1,798) who first married between 1968 and 1982. Results indicated the rate and timing of marital disruption was negatively related to wife's income and positively related to number of hours worked per week and amount of premarital work…

Examined relations between reported well-being, divorce history, availability of proximate adult, and gender in 6,573 respondents. Three main effects were significant: those with history of no divorce reported greater happiness than those with divorce; married persons reported greater happiness and less depression than those cohabiting; and men…

Used 1984 national survey data to test whether marital status affected political orientations and participation. Found married and single persons to differ consistently in their politics, with married being more conservative. Marital status only modestly affected some dimensions of political orientation, including presidential vote. These effects…

Estimated the effects of parental divorce on eight dimensions of psychological well-being of white adults through multiple regression analysis of data from eight recent national surveys. Several statistically significant, estimated negative effects of an important magnitude were discovered, these being somewhat stronger and more pervasive for…

Used National Survey of Black Americans data set to examine level of familial involvement among two groups of Black adults (n=2,107) who report that they do not receive financial assistance from their extended families. Results indicated extended family members constituted a ready and available source of assistance to Black adults. (Author/ABL)

Examined role of social isolation in greater incidence of aggression in cohabiting couples than married persons using national survey data from 13,017 respondents. Claims these factors are related to cohabitors' aggression: they are likely to be youthful and black; lack social control associated with participation in organizations; and tend to…

Examined data from nationally representative survey of Blacks. Found that both marital and parental status had important impact on levels of satisfaction. Blacks who were divorced or separated had lower levels of satisfaction than did married respondents. Important interactions were also found. (Author/NB)

Examined cross-sectional differences in fathers' involvement with their adolescent children, using data from National Survey of Children. Focused on 184 sibling pairs and identified factors associated with variability both within and between sibships. Found gender composition, birth order, education of father, and wife's report of marital…