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Families Under Stress

An Assessment of Data, Theory, and Reseach on Marriage and Divorce in the Military

By: Benjamin R. Karney,John S. Crown

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Families Under Stress

An Assessment of Data, Theory, and Reseach on Marriage and Divorce in the Military

By: Benjamin R. Karney,John S. Crown

Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage. The results generally run counter to expectations. Although rates of marital dissolution have increased since 2001 for most services and components, they had declined in the five years prior to 2001. As a result, marital dissolution rates across the services and components are currently similar to those observed in 1996, when the demands on the military were measurably lower. In most cases, service members who were deployed had a lower risk of subsequently ending their marriages than service members who did not deploy or deployed fewer days.

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Rand Corporation

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0833041452

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9780833041456

Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages

A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

By: Benjamin R. Karney

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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages

A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

By: Benjamin R. Karney

Policymakers are interested in promoting healthy marriages in adulthood by providing services to strengthen the adolescent precursors of healthy marriage, especially within low-income populations. But if programs and curricula targeting adolescent romantic relationships are to be effective, they must be grounded in an accurate understanding of how adolescent relationships function and the role that they play in the development of healthy adult marriages. This report evaluates the current landscape of theory, research, and interventions addressing the role of adolescent romantic relationships in the development of healthy adult marriages. Drawing on a thorough review of the existing theoretical and empirical literature in this area, as well as interviews with practitioners directly involved with developing or administering relationship education to adolescents, the authors bring together relevant research and theory from a wide range of disciplines that have examined these issues, and suggest future directions for research and intervention. In particular, they note that although research describing romantic relationships in low-income populations is sparse, there are already-existing nationally representative data sets that include data from substantial numbers of well-sampled low-income adolescents. Analyses of these data would have relatively low cost and a potentially high yield for informing policies that target low-income youth.

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Rand Corporation

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0833041789

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9780833041784

Love Me Slender

How Smart Couples Team Up to Lose Weight, Exercise More, and Stay Healthy Together

By: Thomas N. Bradbury,Benjamin R. Karney

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How Smart Couples Team Up to Lose Weight, Exercise More, and Stay Healthy Together

By: Thomas N. Bradbury,Benjamin R. Karney

Many couples find themselves gaining weight as they settle into a relationship, but some couples manage to buck this trend. They exercise (together or separately), they support each other's healthy eating habits, and their relationships are stronger as a result. What are their secrets? It turns out that many of us are ignoring the most powerful tool we have to help us get healthier and stay healthier--our spouse or significant other. For more than twenty years, Drs. Thomas Bradbury and Benjamin Karney, codirectors of the Relation¬ship Institute at UCLA, have been studying how couples communicate around these issues, witnessing firsthand how partners can help (and hinder) one another's progress toward better health. Here, they identify the specific principles that successful couples use in their quest to improve their health.--From publisher description.

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Simon and Schuster

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145167452X

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9781451674521

Love Me Slender

How Smart Couples Team Up to Lose Weight, Exercise More, and Stay Healthy Together

By: Thomas N. Bradbury,Benjamin R. Karney

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How Smart Couples Team Up to Lose Weight, Exercise More, and Stay Healthy Together

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Families Under Stress

Families Under Stress

Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages

Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages

Love Me Slender

Love Me Slender

Love Me Slender

Love Me Slender

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