Boolean analysis makes the Interpersonal Perception Method (IPM) readily adaptable to a wide variety of investigations. A general technique for the derivation of terms is demonstrated and a sample set of determinations for evaluation of marital therapy is derived. (Author)

Proposes use of dreamwork to evoke historical patterns or transgenerational themes. Describes new variant of dreamwork which combines aspects of both gestalt and family systems therapies. Implications of therapeutic dramatization for couple therapy are suggested. Examples are included. (Author/NB)

Tested two hypotheses relative to duration of marriage in 11,559 divorcing families in northern California. Confirmed that the presence of children is associated with longer marriage duration but not that the presence of children younger than age two was associated with longer marital duration. (NRB)

A case study is presented of a family whose 11-year-old son's aggressive behavior in school has triggered a crisis in the parents' marriage. (CL)

Discusses the role of the therapist in co-mediation of a divorce with a lawyer. Includes lawyer's expectations, differences from couple therapy, couples' expectations, kinds of appropriate and effective interventions, and creative mediation techniques. Demonstrates how two professionals can build a satisfying professional relationship. (Author/ABL)

As high school seniors, the soon-to-be wives and mothers rank low among their classmates on academic aptitude, scholastic performance, and socioeconomic status. Subsequent educational shortfalls are due to these preexisting differences and to family burdens. Marriage has more adverse effects than parenthood. (Author/ABL)

Analyzes those articles of China's marriage law that deal with marriage contracts. Articles relevant to arranged marriage, marriage by purchase and dowry customs, concubinage or polygamy, marriage restrictions, rituals, and residence customs are analyzed in terms of their contexts in traditional and modern China. Implications are discussed.…

Discusses issues related to transference and resistance in counselor-client relationships as well as in family relationships. Strategies for coping with these reactions are presented. Suggests that therapists can change the impact of past experiences by changing present behavior and ways of construing one's experience. (JAC)

Variation in marital ideologies was tested with a probability sample of 182 wives living in a medium-size city in the midwest. Expressive elements in marriage were particularly salient among the young while economic elements were most emphasized among the old and poorly educated. (Author)

The present study is an attempt to determine whether or not volunteers for marital research differ from nonvolunteers, and if so, to profile the characteristics of each. In general, it seemed that both volunteering for such research and actually participating were related to a more cautious courtship pattern and to an upper-middle-class…

Study findings are consistent with those of Knox (1967) which state that the longer an individual attends college, the more realistic his conception of love becomes, and that married males tend to be more romantic in conception of love than married females. (Author)

Discusses a study that found that marital adjustment was positively related to both spouse's reported self-disclosure of feelings and to self's reported perception of affective disclosure. Also found that one's perception of differences between self and other in the disclosure of love was inversely related to one's marital adjustment. (JOW)

Concludes that the effect of a woman's education on her age at the time of the birth of her first child is statistically significant. Age at first birth, however, has an insignificant effect on educational attainment. Once childbearing has begun, education has essentially no direct effect on fertility. (Author/GC)

Stipulates the need for a more adequate theoretical framework for sociological research on patterns of marital mobility of women. Identifies major characteristics of an ideal framework and applies the resulting theoretical approach to the marital relationship by discussing traditional and alternative hypotheses about stratification mechanisms…