Sentences with phrase «marital happiness at»

In an analysis based on a fixed - effects pooled time - series model with multiple - wave panel data, we find declines in marital happiness at all marital durations and no support for an upturn in marital happiness in the later years.

• An important longitudinal study which controlled for socioeconomic factors found fathers» involvement in routine every day childcare, plus play / school liaison throughout a child's life to beyond adolescence, accounting for 21 % of the variance in fathers» marital happiness at midlife (Snarey, 1993).

Not exact matches

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.

According to Frederic and the research at the Gottman Institute, the most important indicator of marital happiness lies in how a couple handles disagreements and how they repair after a fight.

That first trip down the aisle may be a person's best chance at marital happiness.

One study, conducted by Dr. John Gottman, renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, showed that anger expressed by women during conflict was associated with greater marital unhappiness at the time, but with greater marital happiness of the couple years in the future.

In Beyond The Myth of Marital Happiness, professor of Education and Psychological Studies at the University of Miami Dr. Blaine J. Fowers wrote, «The best marriages are partnerships in which spouses are devoted to creating a shared life that is larger than the emotional payoff of marriage.»

Last year, a major report from the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University noted that many Americans now view life before children, and after they fly the coop, as the most satisfying years of adulthood, while children are viewed more as a disruptive force and an obstacle to marital happiness.

Tracking how we are doing at regularly using these guidelines is an important way to measure our potential marital happiness.

C. People who only ever cohabited with the person they marry, after having mutually clarified plans for marriage, are at no greater risk for divorce or lower marital happiness than those who wait until marriage to live together.

According to Douglas Abbot (2003), there are at least three really important principles that can lead us toward greater marital happiness and stability: (1) Change our behavior; (2) Change our attitude; and (3) Change our heart.

«Including your spouse in your network of friends is nearly as important for marital happiness as making him feel like a part of your family,» says expert Kenneth Leonard, PhD, a professor of psychiatry at SUNY Buffalo.