In this article, we review research on contemporary social trends that influence the next
generation's ability to form and sustain a healthy marriage. As a result, we argue for greater …

Background Numerous studies have been done of the religious affiliations, beliefs, and
practices of the Millennial generation (North Americans born between 1980 and 1995) …

Singlehood is often framed as not being in a relationship and treated as the referent
category in research on the impacts of romantic involvement. However, growing research …

More than a decade ago, a group of researchers began to study the religious and spiritual
lives of American teenagers. They tracked these young people over the course of a decade …

Abstract With a Mechanical Turk sample of 1,614 sexually active individuals (62.6% women,
85% heterosexual, mean age of 34.47 years) who had been in a committed sexual …

How low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of
close, meaningful social ties be a public—rather than just a private—problem? In Social …

Despite recent policy initiatives and substantial federal funding of individually oriented
relationship education programs for youth, there have been no meta-analytic reviews of this …

Objective We explored how young adults discussed their experiences with singlehood and
their reasons for being single. Background Despite singlehood being normative during …

In the current study, we provided initial evidence for the factor structure and validity of the
Brief Measure of Relationship Importance, a new measure of young adults' beliefs about the …

Spouses perceiving that they have shared power in marriage has been linked to higher
marital quality and attachment security. Existing research, however, is limited in assessing …