Tested indicators of social integration, socioeconomic variables, and population age on divorce rates in 3,111 counties. Found comparatively strong effects of social integration and weak socioeconomic effects on divorce. Urbanity was most strongly related to divorce; church membership and population change were equally one-half as strong. Weaker…

Explores the relationship between divorce and suicide through a multiple regression analysis. Results indicate that the incidence of divorce is closely associated with the rate of suicide even after controls for the influence of the effects of age composition, race, the rate of interstate migration, and income. (Author/BEF)

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)

Surveyed 208 Protestant couples to examine the predictive effects of religiosity, socioeconomic rewards, and family development characteristics on marital adjustment. Religiosity was found to be the most predictive variable, even when controlling for social desirability. The results are discussed in terms of implications for theories of family…

Normative housing deficits are introduced into an analysis of the propensity to move as intervening variables between socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and satisfaction. The findings support the use of residential satisfaction and normative housing deficits as predictors of the propensity to move. (Author)

Used National Survey of Youth data to examine extent and cause of adolescent assaults on parents. Found adolescents most likely to assault parents had parent-assaulting friends; approved of delinquent and violent behavior; believed low probability of official sanction for parental assault; were weakly attached to parents; and were White.…

This study discusses how many persons have had multiple marriages and have been divorced; length of time between marriages and the probability of marriage; and divorce, widowhood and remarriage by various social and economic characteristics based on marital history information from the Survey of Economic Opporutnity. (Author/CG)

Studied unmarried cohabiting couples in Gavle, Sweden to test the hypothesis that unmarried cohabitation in Sweden is a variety of marriage rather than an alternative to it. Data indicated the same norms apply to both forms of cohabitation; also, the majority of unmarried couples intend to wed eventually. (Author)

Examined the socioeconomic determinants of age at first marriage among married women aged 25 and above in 1974, enumerated in the 1974 World Fertility Survey in Peninsular Malaysia. Education, ethnicity, and premarital work duration appear to have the strongest impact on marriage postponement. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that the relationship between economic productivity of females and the occurrence of polygyny is different in different types of economic systems. Extant theories are too simplistic to explain these differences. Suggestions are made for further theoretical development which involves integration of several previous…

Results of studying married couples spanning a wide range of income and prestige levels cast doubt upon the generalization that high levels of dollars and prestige earned in the occupational marketplace are readily transformed into reciprocal exchanges of instrumental and expressive rewards and role performances in the marital dyad. (Author/BEF)

Discusses three general areas of research and social concern pertaining to parenting, within an international perspective. Critiques ideological biases that affect research models and links critique to current international social changes. Suggests that experience of parenting may become more difficult in the future because of worldwide…

Examined the socioeconomic determinants of the timing of remarriage for young women (N=238). While socioeconomic and demographic variables are only moderately useful predictors of remarriage, not taking into account background factors can lead to significant misstatements of the importance of various factors for interpreting the likelihood of…

Examines differentials in divorce rates in Canada. Provinces with higher population turnover are characterized by lower degrees of social integration and lower social costs attached to divorce, reflected in higher divorce rates. The hypothesis that divorce rates are higher where more economic opportunities are available for women is explored.…

Incidence of premarital pregnancies among brides marrying in 1970-1972 in Australia is analyzed with respect to relative ages of bride and bridegroom, bridegroom's occupation, and bride's country of birth. Relative frequency of such pregnancies was very high among very young couples but declined with increasing age. (Author)