Differences in Views of Family Life According to Age, Gender, and Parental Marital Status

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 517-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ryan Kinlaw ◽  
Deborah Gatins ◽  
Linda L. Dunlap
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Parental Marital Status

Women Report Being More Likely Than Men to Model Their Relationships after What They have Seen on TV

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Morrison ◽  
Alida S. Westman
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Broken Home ◽  
Model Family ◽  
Formative Years

Students (21 men and 50 women) anonymously answered questions about imitating relationships seen on TV. The women were more likely than men to report trying to model family life after what they saw on TV situational comedies and to expect their significant other to act as those seen on TV. They also more frequently reported experiencing a significant other acting as those on TV. There was no difference by sex in current age, parents' marital status during the students' formative years, or age of separation, divorce, or widowing if any occurred. For neither women nor men did a broken home during the formative years correlate with looking to TV for information on relationships.

scholarly journals Suffer the Children? Divorce and Child Welfare in Postwar Britain

2020 ◽  
pp. 036319902094574
Author(s):  
Rosemary Elliot
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Parental Marital Status ◽  
The Relationship

This article explains why a consensus emerged in the 1950s that courts should be satisfied with the arrangements made for children before parental divorce was granted. I locate this within an evolving child welfare landscape in the context of high levels of divorce in England. The issues at stake were the relationship of child welfare to parental marital status, how this should be established in individual cases, and the legitimacy and boundaries of state intervention in divorce cases. Such developments were absent in Scotland, where the Scottish judiciary believed in upholding the autonomy of parents to make their own arrangements.

scholarly journals The Impact of Family Life and Marital Status on the Motivations of Ultramarathoners: The Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6596
Author(s):  
Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko ◽  
Zbigniew Waśkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Distance Running ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Long Distance Running ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study was to investigate how family life and marital status influence the motivations of ultramarathoners. Two-hundred-sixty-seven Polish athletes participated in the diagnostic survey during the Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon. The Polish version of the Motivation of Marathoner Scale was used. The motivations of ultra-runners were investigated among the following groups of respondents: people in a relationship/marriage; singles; people with children vs. childless people; people who run alone and with a partner; people who parted with a partner because of lack of support for running. Research results can be useful for sport managers–e.g., findings show the relative importance of modern sport for singles in the second half of life. Research has also shown how people in relationships and people with children can be realized through demanding long-distance running. We also found that running ultramarathons can pose a threat to a relationship.

Suicidal behaviour in adolescents: Associations with parental marital status and perceived parent–adolescent relationship

2005 ◽  
Vol 89 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 107-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaat Ponnet ◽  
Robert Vermeiren ◽  
Ine Jespers ◽  
Belo Mussche ◽  
Vladislav Ruchkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Adolescent Relationship ◽  
Parental Marital Status

scholarly journals The quality of close relationships in adulthood: the role of sociodemographic and environmental factors

TIMS Acta ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Nikolina Kuruzović
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Parental Marital Status ◽  
The Relationship

In order to better understand the phenomenon of the quality of different types of close relationships of adults, we have investigated several determinants which define them more clearly. We focused on the relational differences of the respondents according to several sociodemographic (age, gender, employment, marital status and children) and environmental factors (structure and relationships in the family). A total of 400 males and females, ranging from 19 to 51 years, completed a general questionnaire. It collected the data related to sociodemographic and environmental characteristics, as well as the Social Relations Network Inventory (NRI), which assessed the quality of five types of close relationships. The results indicate significant differences between the respondents in the quality of individual close relationships, based on the factors of age, gender, employment, marital status and parenthood, as well as according to the factors of the quality of family relations and parental marital status. The identified differences are particularly pronounced in terms of the quality of the relationship with the mother and the quality of the relationship with the friend, which is explained by the characteristic nature of these relationships, as well as the developmental roles and tasks of the adulthood.

scholarly journals Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-534
Author(s):  
Jiashu Xu ◽  
Airan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

An individual's happiness is closely related to their family life as the family is the institution in which they spend most of their life. Capitalizing on data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the relationship between family economic standing (measured by household income and homeownership) and family processes (measured by marital status and childlessness), as well as children's characteristics (measured by gender composition of children and adult children's educational attainment and marital status), and happiness of Chinese adults. We take a life-course perspective and examine how such relationships vary across different life stages. We find that factors like household income and homeownership are positively related to happiness for people in general; that married adults are happier than those who are unmarried; childlessness results in decreased individual happiness in old age; adult children's educational attainment, measured by college degree (three-year and four-year) and above, improves parents’ happiness; while children's unmarried status makes parents less happy. These significant relationships also change across the life span.

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