Research during the past decade shows that social class or socioeconomic status (SES) is
related to satisfaction and stability in romantic unions, the quality of parent‐child …

Social relationships—both quantity and quality—affect mental health, health behavior,
physical health, and mortality risk. Sociologists have played a central role in establishing the …

Family relationships are enduring and consequential for well-being across the life course.
We discuss several types of family relationships—marital, intergenerational, and sibling ties …

Research on divorce during the past decade has focused on a range of topics, including the
predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and the well‐being of children and …

Family Theories: An Introduction by James M. White, Todd F. Martin, and new co-author Kari
Adamsons provides an incisive, thorough primer to current theories of the family that …

This article develops a series of hypotheses about the long-term effects of one's history of
marriage, divorce, and widowhood on health, and it tests those hypotheses using data from …

Providing an integrated and thorough representation from current research and
contemporary society, Family Ties and Aging shows how pressing issues of our time—an …

Although the meanings and rates of being married, divorced, separated, never-married, and
widowed have changed significantly over the past several decades, we know very little …

Working from a life course perspective, we develop hypotheses about age and gender
differences in the link between marital quality and cardiovascular risk and test them using …

Older adults are at the forefront of family change as a declining share experiences lifelong
marriage and rates of cohabitation and divorce in later life continue to rise. The goal of this …