This article addresses a debate about the relationship of singlehood and informal ties—
singlehood as isolating versus integrative—and evaluates structural explanations for this …

Although social learning theory provides the conceptual basis for behavioral interventions
designed to treat and prevent relationship distress, the results of large, recently published …

I met Gwen and Isaiah at their apartment on Valentine's Day, the holiday for celebrating love
and romance. 1 Both twenty-four and African American, they had been together on and off …

Background Support for policies to combat obesity is often undermined by a public sense
that obesity is largely a matter of personal responsibility. Industry rhetoric is a major …

In 2002, the United States federal government created the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a
policy that has distributed almost $1 billion in welfare money to marriage education …

The current study explores multiple contexts of development—community, family, and
relationship—that predict African American emerging adults' marital beliefs. Findings …

Great Myths of Intimate Relationships provides a captivating, pithy introduction to the subject
that challenges and demystifies the many fabrications and stereotypes surrounding …

Compared to higher income couples, those with low incomes experience a host of
challenges and disparities in their intimate relationships, including lower levels of …

In the July 2013 issue of Family Relations, Alan J. Hawkins, Paul R. Amato, and Andrea
Kinghorn examined the associations between family demographics and per capita spending …

Lower income couples tend to report more difficulty sustaining high‐quality intimate
relationships. As a result, policy initiatives have been enacted to fund relationship education …