The Widowed Service Line, a mutual help program in metropolitan Boston that provided service by telephone, effectively meeting the various problems and needs of differing stages of widowhood, is described. (Author)

University of Michigan survey seeks to identify dissatisfied workers and what makes them that way. (Editor)

A study of the determinants of women marrying early average and late. Charts. Bibliography. (AF)

Two decades from mow, marriage will be very different from what it is today, a sociologist believes. Romantic love will have largely disappeared; there will be several kinds of marriage to choose from, and prospective parents will have to obtain licenses and undergo intensive training. (Author)

the findings indicated that (1) physical and psychlogical health are associated with marital happiness regardless of marital history, and (2) at the same time, divorce and remarriage tend to "select" the healthier members of the unhappy married population. (Author)

Attention is centered on instrumental, affective, and temporal (especially family life cycle) variables as they account for the variance in marital happiness and stability. Data confirm previously established findings with regard to these variables but add some new dimensions and perspectives. Certain pervasive methodological problems in research…

Research supported by Research Grant 5-RO1-MH-12187 from the National Institute of Mental Health and grants from the University of Minnesota.

A study of 1970-1973 data from four Florida counties examined the influences of marital status, family structure, age, health, social participation, income, and education on Black women's life satisfaction. Findings indicated that married, widowed, and divorced women had higher levels of life satisfaction than single and separated women.…

A descriptive study of factors in the lifestyle of 50 couples married an average of 55.5 years and an average age of 79 years provided data for this report. Independence, commitment, companionship, and qualities of caring were significant elements in these long-lasting marriages. (Author)

Reports research on the nature of enduring sexual liaisons among homosexual men. Such relationships vary widely and may be subinstitutional adaptions to lack of community support. Gay men committed to the heterosexual world were less likely to enter enduring relationships. Open marriage is the more enduring form of gay male liaisons. (Author)

Important demographic trends in the United States include 1) the population's changing age profile, 2) the tendency for young people to remain single longer, 3) the widening mortality differential between the sexes, and 4) reversal of migration trends. Available from: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Box 211, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,…

Examined whether early divorce would affect job satisfaction of professional or clerical/technical women (N=88) working in hospitals and explored differences among married, divorced, and single working women in their perceptions of different areas of their work. Results revealed significant positive relationship between job level and job…

Examined adolescent marriage, adolescent childbirth, and their co-occurrence in adult women. Poorest socioeconomic outcomes were associated with adolescent childbirth regardless of presence or timing of first marriage. Marital instability was associated with both adolescent marriage and adolescent childbirth. Findings suggest that risk associated…

Proposes way of resolving competing hypotheses about class identification among employed married women. Asserts that employed married women who believe in traditional gender role norms consider only husband's characteristics in deciding their own class identification; women who believe in egalitarian gender role norms consider both their own and…

Data from an extensive survey of the entire adult population of one rural Norwegian county indicate that married persons had the highest level of subjective well-being, followed by widowed persons. Among the formerly married, cohabitation was associated with substantially higher levels of well-being, but the importance of cohabitation depended on…