Premarital cohabitation and marital instability: a test of the unconventionality hypothesis

Article Abstract:

A study by the Departments of Sociology at Bowling Green State University and Ohio State University, showed that 1987-88 data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) failed to support the hypothesis that the cohabitors' greater unconventionality in family ideology causes higher instability of marriages begun by premarital cohabitation.

Social aspects, Marital status

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The influence of intimate violence on transitions out of cohabitation

Article Abstract:

Research into the experience of violence among cohabiting couples in the US is presented. The study analyses the extent to which violence by either partner leads to eventual separation of partners.

Women, Crimes against, Conjugal violence

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Remarriage, cohabitation, and changes in mothering behaviour

Article Abstract:

Research is presented describing the study of mother-child relationships in situations where the mother either remained as a single parent, remarried or lived with a partner.

Psychological aspects, Parent and child, Parent-child relations

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