The ways that couples form and manage their intimate relationships at higher and lower
levels of socioeconomic status (SES) have been diverging steadily over the past several …

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

Where do positive feelings about a romantic or sexual partner come from? This article offers
an overview of—and imposes some structure on—the enormous literature on mate …

With hate crimes on the rise and social movements like Black Lives Matter bringing
increased attention to the issue of police brutality, the American public continues to be …

Much research on cohabitation has focused on transitions from cohabitation to marriage or
dissolution, but less is known about how rapidly women progress into cohabitation, what …

In this study, we explored patterns of violence and coercive control in young adult dating
relationships by testing and extending Johnson's typology of intimate partner violence …

Most romantic relationships start with a living apart together (LAT) phase during which the
partners live in two separate households. Over time, a couple might decide to move in …

Moving in with a partner is a step in the process of institutionalising a romantic relationship,
that is, establishing the relationship in such a way that it is more embedded in the social …

Objective Empirically examine whether different economic theories of marriage formation
predict the transition from cohabitation to marriage differently across social classes …

Romantic relationships that cross racial lines have grown since anti‐miscegenation laws
were deemed unconstitutional. In The Age of Independence, Rosenfeld argued that parental …