One-third of a century has elapsed since the Social Security Act of 1935 laid the “cornerstone” for the Nation’s social insurance system. Far from undermining national institutions, the program has made significant contributions toward strengthening those institutions. More children are spending more years in school, in part because OASDHI benefits are available to maintain family income even w...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that spousal non-smoking has a spillover effect on the partner's cessation. However, discussion is lacking on the factors modifying that association. We examined whether the spillover effect of spousal non-smoking was associated with the couple's educational attainment. METHODS We used paired marital data from the Japanese Study on Stratification, Hea...

Thomas A. Field, M.Ed., NCC, LPC is a Faculty/Program Coordinator for the Masters of Arts in Counseling program at City University of Seattle and Ph.D. candidate in the counseling and supervision program at James Madison University. Correspondence can be addressed to Thomas A. Field, City University of Seattle, 521 Wall Street, Seattle, WA 98121, [email protected]. During the past decade, the fi...

In the fall of 1935, Albert M. Grass and Ellen H. Robinson both came to the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This entirely fortuitous confluence of their lives led to their marriage, to a commercial endeavor—the Grass Instrument Company—that would provide equipment of high quality to neuroscientists and other physiologists for over half a century, and finally to the for...

Improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change Re-evaluating the link between marriage and mental well-being: How do early life conditions attenuate differences between cohabitation and marriage? i ABSTRACT The decline in marriage and increase in cohabitation raises questions about whether marriage still provides benefits to well-being. Here we use the Brit...

This study investigates how urban Malays give meanings to love within marriage. A total of 245 participants attending a compulsory premarital program in Klang Valley, Malaysia agreed to take part in this study. Questionnaires consisting of personal and relationship background were distributed to participants. How participants give meanings to love which exists in a marriage were rated using a s...