Counselors intervening with divorced and widowed women should recognize the trauma associated with losing the wife role and the failure of traditional female socialization to prepare most women for more assertive, autonomous functioning. Counseling approaches and programs should prepare "single-again" women to replace stereotypic female behavior…

Discusses recent judicial trends affecting the rights of married and/or pregnant students to attend school or participate in extracurricular activities. (JF)

Analyses of indicators of informal social supports for respondents aged 55 and older included in a national Survey Research Center study indicated that the widowed elderly generally had an advantage over the married and that sex differences were similar between married and widowed elderly. (Author/RC)

Assessed the relationships between a life satisfaction index and social/demographic/psychological factors in older adults. Results showed marital status, occupational prestige, years of formal education, race, annual income, and a variety of specific satisfaction with life measures were related to successful aging. (Author)

Investigated teenage daughters' quasi-adult companionate and confederate roles vis-a-vis their mothers in maritally nonintact as compared to maritally intact homes. Used survey data from a study of 449 Black and White mothers and their daughters in Michigan. Few significant differences were found by marital history for either group. (Author)

Reviewed the published research on the psychological significance of names and name changes. Found little data pertaining to the implications of a woman changing or retaining her surname at marriage. Suggests such research would have relevance for individual personality development, marital and family relationships, and social and cultural…

Discusses the developmental features that occur in the sequence of intimate relationships. Three phases correspond roughly to first marriages, second marriages, and subsequent intimate partnerships. Both the individuals and the relationship change in predictable fashion. (Author/JAC)

The author attempts to identify which females, in different educational levels and family situations, have a greater propensity to participate in the labor market and to evaluate how formal education and marital status influence this propensity. Data are drawn from the latest available censuses of Argentina (1970) and Paraguay (1972). (Author/SJL)

More current marriages are now remarriages. The father is more likely to have custody of the children after divorce if the mother has remarried. Remarriage after divorce varies positively with income level for men, and varies negatively with both education and income for women. (Author)

A study analyzed sex discrimination with data on over 700 professional employees in a metropolitan publishing firm. It was found that the sex differential in earnings within clusters of similar jobs was much greater if marriage and children variables were excluded: men received a large "payoff" from being married and having children. (JH)

A comparison of graduates of Black Hawk College who transferred to Western Illinois University and those who entered the external Board of Governors degree program show significant differences in age, marital status, and employment. Few transfers considered the external degree program; few external degree enrollees considered transferring.…

Examined the impact of support systems on post-divorce family functioning. Results suggest that families under extreme stress need to be provided with relatively high levels of support or their dissatisfaction with support systems will appear in harsher and more restrictive relationships with children. (Author)

This study examined blood pressure levels of married women in relation to such work-related variables as work load, satisfaction with work, reported strain, and evaluated performance. Differences in work load were unrelated to blood pressure levels. However, currently unemployed working women had lower levels. (Author)

Statistics in this study demonstrate that, on average, separated women are more likely than divorced women to have children and to have lower levels of education, employment, and income. Nevertheless, divorced women are not well off either, particularly when their high labor force participation rate and comparatively low family income are…