Marital status

Jyotsana Parajuli GTY 750 Association between depression, retirement status and self-rated health status among older adults aged 65 and over in the United States Literature Review The number of older adults is increasing worldwide as longevity is increasing. The population of the world aged 60 years and older is projected to be 2 billion by 2050, increasing from 900 million in 2015 (WHO, 2015). With the graying of baby boomers, the number of older adults in the United States is escalating…

be considered a sexual assault, is the key component. The concept of consent has been a complex issue in regards to sexual assault that occurs inside an intimate relationship, especially marriage. Marital rape is a complicated battle because of social attitudes on rape in…

studies have shown that marital satisfaction and religiosity are variables that influence each other (Ahmadi and Hossein-abadi, 2009; Brimhall and Butler, 2007; Chou, 2010; Hunler and Gencoz, 2005; Lambert and Dollahite, 2006; Orathinkall and Vansteenwegen, 2006). However, none of these studies have included perceived religiosity as a third variable. It is possible that an individual’s perception of their spouse’s religiosity may be another factor that influences marital satisfaction.…

Is Durkheim Induitable? A Look Into Modern Suicide Data Emile Durkheim speaks with conviction, like a man self assured that his facts are correct and confident in his analysis, a man who never questioned himself. Modern scholar do not look at him with such assured eyes. From the fundamental basis of his analysis to the sources of his information, everything about Durkheim’s work has been questioned. Notably, there is serious debate as to whether or not the facts he based his data on have passed…

family structure, both through the education of America’s youth as well as through it’s own actions, the government can begin to decreasing urban poverty, in more cost effective ways than those in the past, which have been mostly unsuccessful. The marital status of parents largely impacts the likelihood their children will end up living in poverty.…

spouse. Does a couple’s financial success or lack there of relate to satisfaction or dissatisfaction within their marriage? A correlational design would be the best style for gathering data to see if there is any relationship between finances and marital success. In doing…

Social Behavior 53(4) 413-431, “Divorce and Women’s Risk of Health Insurance Loss”, is one that can link together the social and economic problems being faced by women who loses their health insurance due to being single, divorced or a change in marital status. There is a grave number of divorced women, roughly 115,000, that lose health insurance annually with an average of 65,000 becoming uninsured. The authors, Bridget Lavelle and Pamela J. Smock use data from previous studies and research of…

Children’s’ wellbeing and adjustment in divorce and marital conflict family setting The society today is quick to warn parents about divorce and the negative implications of divorce for children both short term and long term. However no body tends to be concerned with the influence of marital conflict to the child’s wellbeing or so it seems. Therefore given the negative connotations attached to the child with the parents being divorced, is the child in a significantly better environment just…

To what extent does marital status affect Austen’s writing of “Emma” and “Pride and Prejudice” in the 18th to early 19th century? Austen’s use of marital status is very significant in her books “Emma” and “Pride and Prejudice.” I found marital status worthy of study because it reflects the time periods used in Austen’s work. The two books show different yet accurate female perspectives of marriage at that time. With Austen’s use of Charlotte Lucas we are shown how an intelligent yet not…

Introduction Background The American society has seen a dramatic change from early, stable and nearly universal marriage pattern to increasing rate of marital dissolution in the past 60 years (Cavanagh and Huston 2008; Kobrin and Waite 1984). In the meantime, family structure has been largely impacted by the rising rates of divorce, remarriage, nonmarital cohabition and out-of-wed childbearing. As a result, a growing number of American children are experiencing increasingly diverse and complex…