Reviews factors such as income, employment, housing, and transportation which tend to keep women and female-headed families concentrated in cities. Proposes that cities are ideal places for future experimentation in lifestyles not based on traditional sex roles. (GC)

Using locus of control personality scores from a sample of White adults, with education and income controlled, this study found that divorced persons were significantly more internal than married persons. The cross-sectional data does not unravel the issue of causal direction. (Author)

Reviews literature concerning job attribute preferences of full-time and part-time workers. Data reveal that sex and occupation influence preferences. Significant differences in preference rankings of job attributes were found between full- and part-time female clerical employees. For female clerical employees, marital and family status could…

Married couples rated their marital satisfaction and played interpersonal competitive games which revealed the success with which they interacted. Younger husbands who scored more maturely on the Stewart measure of psychosocial maturity belonged to more successful marriages, as did college-educated wives who showed less immaturity and more phallic…

Examining the impact on women's employment of the changing family structure, the authors found (1) a decline in the effect of marital status on women's employment; (2) no decline in the effect of child status; and (3) a more complex relationship between race and employment status. (SK)

Explored the nature of informal support given to older persons, depending upon gender and marital status. Random samples of 488 residents of retirement communities were interviewed. Data indicated the married had more primary relations than the nonmarried; married women had the most and spouseless men the fewest. (Author)

Surveys empirical research with regard to cohabitation. The major consequences of cohabitation are identified for five groups: (1) never-married cohabiting couples; (2) children of cohabitants; (3) society; (4) previously married cohabitating couples; and (5) elderly cohabitants. Current legal trends are also discussed and recommendations for…

Consequences of singlehood are analyzed for never-married persons. Highly-educated older women are most likely to remain single. Family background is not a predictor. Although the never-married find life more exciting than other marital statuses among younger respondents, this reverses in later life. Never-marrieds are also less happy than the…

Recent developments and problems in the field of premarital counseling are discussed. Premarital counseling is taken more seriously by religious organizations requiring more counseling sessions. Attention is given to the need for better premarital counselors and for more systematic evaluation of the impact of premarital counseling strategies.…

Examines chronological age and marital status as factors of academic performance. College students 28 or older were more likely than younger students to be high achievers. Marital status appears to be an important factor for college women because a significant number of the married women were high achievers. (Author)

Adults living with unrelated adults of the opposite sex are contrasted with married couples living together. Couples living together without marriage are most likely to be residing in large metropolitan areas, and are characterized by relatively low income levels and high unemployment. The increase in adults living with an unrelated person of the…

While much is known regarding male status attainments, less is known regarding such phenomena among married women. Data were collected from younger, white, married women interviewed at two points in time. Results confirm the idea that sex roles should be included in future studies of married women's status attainments. (Author)

In order to specify the impact of divorce and remarriage on the relational system of kinship, this paper examines contacts of married, divorced, and remarried women (N-128) with geographically-available close and (former) spouse's kindred; the help pattern between the women and kin; and the consequences on the kin networks of minor children.…

An investigation was made of the relationship between self-concept and the adjustment of commuter college students. Instruments used were the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test. There was a significant relationship between self-concept and marital adjustment. (Author)

The goal of this study was to track and compare the paths along which young adults arrange and time the entries and exits from marital and cohabiting unions. The focus was on the incidence, durations, and outcomes of dimensions that embrace residential separation. Results show that union trajectories are dynamic and involve a heterogeneous and…