Matching, marriage, and children: differences across sexual orientations

Sexual Harmony in Marriage

By J. H. Wallis. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 14s.) There have been many articles and books written on the problems of sex and sexual harmony. Too many of these in the past seem to have been mainly mechanical in approach. In some quarters, mainly in the U.S.A., orgasmal adequacy has become the criterion of sexual harmony, especially where psychiatrists have influenced the writer's thinking. It is m...

Attachment orientations , marriage , and the transition to parenthood q

This study examined how a major life stressor—the transition to parenthood—impacts marital satisfaction and functioning in persons with different romantic attachment orientations. As hypothesized, if highly ambivalent women entered the transition perceiving low levels of spousal support, they experienced significant declines (pre-to-postnatal changes) in perceptions of spousal support and marit...

Matching structure and Pfaffian orientations of graphs

Marriage Matching with Correlated Preferences

Authors of experimental, empirical, theoretical and computational studies of two-sided matching markets have recognized the importance of correlated preferences. We develop a general method for the study of the effect of correlation of preferences on the outcomes generated by two-sided matching mechanisms. We then illustrate our method by using it to quantify the effect of correlation of prefer...

Ontogenic differences in sexual size dimorphism across four plover populations

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) among adults is commonly observed in animals and is considered to be adaptive. However, the ontogenic emergence of SSD, i.e. the timing of divergence in body size between males and females, has only recently received attention. It is widely acknowledged that the ontogeny of SSD may differ between species, but it remains unclear how variable the ontogeny of SSD is wi...