Marital Happiness

Brad Wilcox has a new essay in the spanking-new journal, National Affairs, entitled "The Evolution of Divorce." Divorce rates have plunged for the college educated as rates of marital happiness have stabilized. Meanwhile, for the rest of America, marital unhappiness is up and so is divorce.Why…

Scientists say that it is possible to predict whose marriage will succeed or fail, based entirely on pictures from your childhood from as young as age 5. According to an article in the UK's Daily Mail, the study found that "Those with the brightest smiles are more than three times as likely to…

A new study finds that the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more often than not.

According to this study in Psychological Science, by Jaime and Jost, conservatives really are……in the hands of The System.) But I'm also reminded of another body of research on happiness--marital happiness: spouses who focus on fairness tend to be much more unhappy in their…

Marital happiness is something that most people expect to achieve in their lives. Love, respect, honesty, and faithfulness are some attributes that many people believe will lead to a happy marriage. But what does that really mean? Many couples that come in for counseling say they have love,…

Filed under: Newborns, Babies, Pregnancy & birthI think I gave my baby the wrong name! My dh and I liked the name Madison so much that we settled early on in pregnancy. Now our baby is here and I'm having serious second thoughts. They are taking over my time and energy and I can't shake this…

Filed under: Sex & relationshipsMoving house, getting married, having kids...we're told they are the most stressful events we will experience. Now……are different types of happiness in life."While some lustre may be off marital happiness for at least a time during this period of life,…

Filed under: News, Weird, Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Having kids curbs marital satisfaction. Researchers at the University of Denver tracked 218 couples over eight years and found that 90 percent reported a decrease in the quality of their ... Read…

Interesting story that I thought you'd like to see. The lead-in is a bit misleading. Although the article starts out highlighting a new study……result of the study, which was:The most important determinant in women's marital happiness was the level of their husbands' emotional…

Does Divorce Make People Happy? Findings from a Study of Unhappy MarriagesBy Linda J. Waite, Don Browning, William J. Doherty, Maggie Gallagher, Ye……a nationally representative survey that extensively measures personal and marital happiness. Out of 5,232 married adults interviewed in the…

How do we measure a marriage culture?  The Institute for American Values has come up with a new……consists of one measure of the marriage rate, one measure of  the divorce rate, one measure of marital happiness, and two measures of child-centeredness: the out-of-wedlock birth ratio and…

While that may not be surprising to many parents, understanding why empty nesters have better relationships can offer important lessons on marital happiness for parents who are still years away from having a child-free house. In June, The Journal of Advanced Nursing reported on a study from the…