Divorce, and the period of separation of spouses that usually precedes it, can be extremely stressful for those involved. In fact, probably the most common way that researchers have sought to understand the effects of divorce is the divorce-stress-adjustment model, which Paul Amato (2000) used to review the research literature on the subject. Although Amato […]

To paraphrase the Russian novelist Tolstoy, there are a million ways in which a marriage can go wrong and only one in which it can go right (actually, the quotation from Anna Karenina was “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” but the implication is the same). Problems […]

Many adults now choose to remain single. Some researchers refer to this group as the “never married”, to differentiate them from single after divorce. Johnston and Eklund (1984) noted three decades ago that much attention had been placed on married and divorced adults, with journals devoted to their study, but single adults have received less […]