This study discusses how many persons have had multiple marriages and have been divorced; length of time between marriages and the probability of marriage; and divorce, widowhood and remarriage by various social and economic characteristics based on marital history information from the Survey of Economic Opporutnity. (Author/CG)

Married and pregnant students should be allowed to participate in academic and cocurricular activities as long as their presence does not interfere with the welfare of other students. (CK)

Revision of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, March, 1968. This study, of who intends and who obtains postgraduate education, indicates that for men, high academic ability was the primary factor in determining postgraduate education; for women, a late marriage, low socioeconomic status…

Discusses how the work experiences of women during World War II affected their lives after the war. Oral histories of 43 war-time employees are used to show how differences in the race, age, and marital status of the women determined how that work experience affected their lives. (AM)

Studied unmarried cohabiting couples in Gavle, Sweden to test the hypothesis that unmarried cohabitation in Sweden is a variety of marriage rather than an alternative to it. Data indicated the same norms apply to both forms of cohabitation; also, the majority of unmarried couples intend to wed eventually. (Author)

Data from seven recent American national surveys found that persons remarried after divorce had rather high levels of reported well-being, but never-remarried women reported lower aggregate marital happiness than never-divorced married women or never-remarried men; the difference was not explained by race, age, or socioeconomic variables.…

College students (N=368) evaluated the competence of a job applicant in a non-sex-typed field and merits of an article written by the applicant. Applicant was described as female or male, single or married, having children or not. Results indicated females were devalued by female and, particularly, male subjects. (Author/RC)

Describes the individual consequences of family transitions. Suggests transitions, especially transitions out of marriage, are experienced as challenging and perhaps unpleasant. Widowhood was less consequential than expected. Changes in parental status had only trivial effects. Family transitions were found to affect individual evaluations of…

Deals with three aspects of the part-time employment pattern of working wives: (1) the wives' characteristics, (2) the level and structure of their earnings in part-time jobs, and (3) the duration of their employment when part-time jobs are available to them. (Author/CT)

Data from divorced and remarried respondents suggest the existence of moderate normative integration of the former spouse relationship. Men and women were significantly different in their degree of acceptance of former spouse interaction. Expectations for former husbands and former wives in comparable situations showed no differential standards by…

Studies morbidity and disability rates of nonmarried, married, and formerly married people using age-adjusted data from federal health surveys in 1960 and 1970. In the noninstitutional population, divorced and separated people have the worst health status. Widowed people rank second, followed by single people; married people appear healthiest.…

Widows (N=78) and widowers (N=41) were interviewed 13-16 months after they were widowed. An eight-item self-report measure of adjustment-depression was developed. The married were significantly better adjusted than the widowed. Widowers were significantly better adjusted than widows. (Author)

Found significant differences between male and female college students' (n=641) attitudes toward premarital sex among casual acquaintances and attitudes toward extramarital, oral-genital, and anal sex, with males expressing more liberal attitudes. Found no significant differences between males' and females' attitudes toward premarital sex when…

Investigated gender differences in extent to which individuals are altruistically other-oriented in their intimate heterosexual relationships. Data from married and single college students suggest that men are more altruistically other-oriented toward their partners than are women. Altruistic other-orientation appeared to be encouraged by…

Examined influence of marital status on career aspirations of 240 single, married, and divorced re-entry women college students. Results revealed that increasing knowledge was most frequently checked response as career-related goal for all three marital status groups. Results indicated significant differences in needs of the three marital status…