This study examined the relationship between psychological adjustment of adults with cancer and two marital variables: married versus unmarried and high versus low marital quality. Eighty-six married and 46 unmarried adults with cancer completed general and illness-specific measures of psychological adjustment. In general, men and subjects with low marital quality reported more depression and a...

In recent years many studies have reported significant empirical associations between fertility and marital dissolution. Whether this is a causal effect or only a correlation is not clear. We explore this issue by using the propensity score methods. First we explore the effect of the binary treatment ”having young children or not” on marital disruption. Then, we extend the method to the case of...

The economic well-being of female-headed households is a growing public concern. While marital disruption undoubtedly precipitates major changes in household relationships and income sources, we show that its role in increasing poverty, especially in the short term, is seriously overstated by traditional data-collection methods. Using longitudinal data which allow us to follow women as wives an...

OBJECTIVE Five theoretical hypotheses about the impact of spina bifida (SB) on parents' social adjustment in the parent-child, the marital and the family-level relationship were tested. METHODS PsycInfo, Medline and reference lists were searched. This yielded 27 eligible reports. Effect sizes (Hedges' d) were computed to estimate the impact of SB. RESULTS Overall, the effects of SB were sma...

In this study, we examine the effect of children on divorce risks in first and subsequent marriages in Sweden and compare risk patterns in the two types of marriages based on register data. We examine the impact of parity and the age of the youngest child while standardizing for age at marriage, premarital childbearing, calendar year, and marital duration. We apply our models to Swedish registe...

Though there is a considerable literature concerned with the economic consequences of marital breakdown, there is still substantial disagreement in terms of its magnitude. One of the major problems underlying this debate is how economic well-being is defined. In this work we implement several measures of well-being of monetary and multidimensional nature using data from the European Community H...