Posts Tagged ‘divorce’

Does online dating lead to a happier marriage?

U. CHICAGO (US) — More than a third of marriages between 2005 and 2012 began online, and research suggests those couples appear to be happier and to stay together longer. Continue…

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:04 - 3 Comments

College fails to lower divorce for black women

RUTGERS (US) — A college education is linked to lower divorce rates for white women, but black women are not getting the same benefit, a study shows. (more…)

Society & Culture - Nov 29, 2012 11:02 - 0 Comments

After divorce, journals may hurt, not heal

U. ARIZONA (US) — Writing in-depth about negative feelings immediately after a divorce may do more harm than good, research suggests. (more…)

Society & Culture - Nov 14, 2012 14:46 - 4 Comments

After divorce, many women lose health insurance

U. MICHIGAN (US) — More than 100,000 women lose their private health insurance every year because of divorce. And the loss isn’t temporary—overall rates of coverage remain depressed for more than two years. (more…)

Society & Culture - Sep 13, 2012 12:29 - 3 Comments

‘Inefficient’ divorces leave couples worse off

IOWA STATE (US) — Roughly one in four couples who divorce in hopes of finding greater happiness may have been better off staying married. (more…)

Society & Culture - Aug 27, 2012 16:13 - 2 Comments

Technology makes talking tricky for co-parents

U. MISSOURI (US) — Communicating through email, texting, and social media can make co-parenting harder for some divorced and separated couples, according to a new study. (more…)

Society & Culture - Aug 17, 2012 13:54 - 0 Comments

Ex-spouses fight less when they focus on kids

U. MISSOURI (US) — Hostile relationships can improve when divorced parents set aside their differences and focus on their children’s needs. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Mar 20, 2012 9:20 - 0 Comments

Wedded bliss is good for the heart

EMORY (US) — Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times more likely to survive the next three months than single people who have the same surgery. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Feb 1, 2012 17:30 - 0 Comments

Younger couples more stressed about divorce

MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Divorce at a younger age hurts people’s health more than divorce later in life, researchers have found. (more…)

Divorce fears keep couples unhitched

CORNELL (US) — With the share of married adults in the US at an all-time low, new research finds that fear of divorce may be keeping young people from tying the knot. (more…)

Society & Culture - Dec 13, 2010 13:48 - 3 Comments

Kids of divorce get less for college

RICE (US) — Divorced parents contribute about a third of what married parents contribute to their children’s college education even though their incomes are about half as much as their married peers’. (more…)

Society & Culture - Aug 21, 2009 10:33 - 0 Comments

Couples say ‘I don’t’ to divorce

U. MICHIGAN (US)—Young adults see living together as the best way to protect against divorce, not as an alternative to marriage, a new study finds. (more…)

Society & Culture - Aug 12, 2009 4:00 - 2 Comments

To stay healthy, stay married

U. CHICAGO (US)—The end of a marriage, whether through divorce or death, has a lingering impact on health, even if a person remarries, a new study finds. (more…)

Society & Culture - Jun 23, 2009 16:56 - 0 Comments

Staying together ‘for the kids’ may not be best

CORNELL (US)—While it is true that adolescents tend do better when they live with both parents, if those parents frequently argue, their teenage children are more likely to binge drink and drop out of school. (more…)

Society & Culture - Jun 17, 2009 9:36 - 0 Comments

Hyphens add dash of passion to name identity

RUTGERS (US)—Hyphens may be tiny punctuation marks, but they loom large when it comes to constructing social identity, says Rachelle Germana, a researcher at Rutgers. (more…)

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