Compatibility and the development of premarital relationships

Article Abstract:

Compatibility in courtship is related to the development of empirical relations between social homogamy and psychological similarity. The majority of the individuals having common leisure interests and role preferences to their partners develop a congenial relationship after marriage. Assortative mating depends on the leisure interests and role performance likings. During courtship, with increasing similarity between the leisure interests of couples, the tendency of men to love and care for their partners also increases.

Social aspects, Analysis, Mate selection, Courtship

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Family ties and the discontinuity of divorce in black and white newlywed couples

Article Abstract:

Research analyzing circumstances in kin networks that alter the negative impact of a disrupted family background on the viability of new marriages is presented. It is shown that adult offspring from nuclear and divorced families continue to relate differently to their families.

Children of divorced parents

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The social ecology of marriage and other intimate unions

Article Abstract:

An ecological structure for use to investigate the marital system as a whole, or specific marital behaviour patterns, is presented. This model concentrates on issues regarding causal processes that cut across three main units of analysis.

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