People are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected. In recognition of this social
fact, there has been growing conceptual and empirical attention over the past decade to the …

The last several years have witnessed an active-sometimes acrimonious-debate,
occasionally joined by demographers, over the state of the family. Some, like David …

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 …

The theory that marriage has protective effects for survival has itself lived for more than 100
years since Durkheim's groundbreaking study of suicide (Durkheim). Investigations of …

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

Both men and women appear to benefit from being married. This article uses data from the
Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the extent to which three key factors-financial …

PURPOSE: To examine the effect of marital status (married, widowed, divorced/separated,
and never-married) on mortality in a cohort of 281,460 men and women, ages 45 years and …

Prior literature has shown that married men live longer than unmarried men. Possible
explanations are that marriage protects its incumbents or that healthier men select …

Many studies have documented a longevity advantage for married persons relative to their
unmarried counterparts in all age groups. However, these studies have failed to determine …

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 …