So much to do, so little time. When multiple priorities collide, it is often difficult to find the right balance between work and family life. In the nationally representative survey of Household Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), researchers discovered more about factors that influenced work-life balance.

Staying in a bad relationship isn’t good for anyone. From the standpoint of promoting family cohesion as a panacea for child welfare, there is pretty compelling evidence that it’s the emotional content of a relationship that matters, not the label that can be applied to it.

There are many reasons to stay in a relationship, because you love the other person, because you promised, because you are financially dependent on one another, or because of the kids. But what if the love faded, would you leave? Feeling constrained in your relationship may lead you to engage in fewer negative behaviors with your partner. Read more about this complex relationship.

A recent publication by Terra Schmooker and Krisanne Bursik in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships has highlighted the important role that a belief in the positive value of monogamy may have in predicting relationship success. Too bad no one sent a copy of this to French President Nicolas Sarkozy!

It has been a well established fact that getting a divorce, separation, or even the threat of separation can increase your risk for depression. One study shows that people are 10 times as likely to experience a major depressive disorder after divorce relative to other time. That is why I was so surprised [...]

The inability of men and women to get along, most notably within their marriages, may be the longest running source of conflict in human history. Although bickering with your spouse hasn’t been shown to have direct health benefits, new research has shown that husbands and wives who don’t express their anger at each other may actually die at a younger age!

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presents a compelling case that divorce has an extremely negative impact on the environment.

Life is full of transitions. We can move from home to school, school to a job, single to married, married to divorced, childless to with child. And it often seems that as we move from one stage in our lives to another, there are often others on our same path. Cohorts of students go to [...]

Spending as little as ten minutes talking to others may help improve your memory and intellect. Sound like an infomercial created by teenagers? No, no- it’s real research! Turns out social interaction can provide the same mental-boosting benefits as reading or doing a daily crossword puzzle.

Elsewhere in our blogs, we have emphasized research that has suggested that it may be the “little things” that count when it comes to making a relationship great. A new article examining and comparing couples who divorced in three countries points out the flip side of this coin: It’s the little things that add up when it comes to divorce as well.

Chronic stress. It seems to be the bane of everyone’s existence, compromising the immune system, leading to pain, fatigue, and illness - just to name a few. But did you know stress can also lead to divorce?

The conventional wisdom among psychologists and sociologists studying marriage has long been that marital satisfaction, on average, declines with marriage length. This is not to say that there haven’t been some scientific challenges to this idea. When it comes to children, however, the effects on marriage have not proven to be entirely upbeat in the eyes science.

Much ado has been made of late in the United States about the increasing loan burden which graduating college seniors are facing. A debt-load of tens of thousands of dollars has become the norm to which most college students can look forward, it seems. Well, in keeping with the concept of “student loans,” a bank in Japan has recently announced that it will begin providing special, low-interest loans to cover the costs incurred by divorce settlements.

As part of a larger research project I’m working on here, I recently read a great review article in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage concerning how individuals use social relationships to adjust to life with divorce. The researchers had completed a meta-analysis (a giant research mash up to get a birds-eye-view of all [...]