Volunteering is any activity in which time is given freely to benefit another person, group or
cause. Volunteering is part of a cluster of helping behaviors, entailing more commitment …

Scientific study of marital satisfaction attracted widespread attention in the 1990s from
scholars representing diverse orientations and goals. This article highlights key conceptual …

Nearly three decades of research evaluating the impact of family structure on the health and
well-being of children demonstrates that children living with their married, biological parents …

I use a divorce‐stress‐adjustment perspective to summarize and organize the empirical
literature on the consequences of divorce for adults and children. My review draws on …

This book—arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date—
analyzes data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were …

Family relationships across several generations are becoming increasingly important in
American society. They are also increasingly diverse in structure and in functions. In reply to …

A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human
institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that …

The transition to adulthood has become a thriving area of research in life course studies.
This review is organized around two of the field's emerging themes. The first theme is the …

The present study updates the PR Amato and B. Keith (1991) meta-analysis of children and
divorce with a new analysis of 67 studies published in the 1990s. Compared with children …

Mothering and motherhood are the subjects of a rapidly expanding body of literature.
Considered in this decade review are two predominant streams in this work. One is the …