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New statistics indicate that the number of cohabiting couples that go on to have babies outside the boundaries of marriage is growing. The government report indicates that people in this group are in stable relationships and live together, but did not get legally married.
The investigation covered the period from 20... |
12 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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The time immediately after birth is critical to the good development of a child, experts say. Parents need to be on their best behavior, and have to work together as a team. A new study finds that aggression within the couples, prior to birth, tends to make the two poorer parents, on average. While this appears to be... |
2 March 2012
11:07 GMT |
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A paper in the latest issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that focusing on good-faith attempts made by your partner can make for a longer-lasting, stronger relationship. The study shows that focusing more on past failings and mistakes can lead to faster separation.
Everyone who's ever been... |
16 February 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Though I personally find it a bit obvious, a team of psychologists from the Kansas State University has recently determined that couple that engage in rewarding conversations experience far less stress and anxiety, as well as increased levels of overall satisfaction.
Team leader Dr. Brenda McDaniel conducted the in... |
10 February 2012
10:55 GMT |
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In case anyone was still wondering, a good marriage revolves around making sacrifices. The trick is to get both members to do the same, in a balanced manner. When getting married, individuals need to be aware that they will absolutely have to make sacrifices, not be faced with the prospect after the ceremony.
I beli... |
3 February 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Geoffrey Greif and Kathleen Holtz Deal recently released a new book, called “Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships.” In it, they describe how being friends with other married couples can help people who are already married overcome the obstacles in their path with greater ease.
What the boo... |
16 January 2012
10:42 GMT |
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As any half-decent statistic will tell you, the number of young couples who decide to get married is constantly dropping in the United States, and has been doing so for many years. According to a new research, the reason is extremely simple – young adults fear the high divorce rates. The work was carried out by... |
19 December 2011
03:56 GMT |
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People commuting for long distances every day are at an increased risk of getting a divorce, say researchers at the Umeå University, in Sweden. They explain that their new research indicates these individuals to be at a 40 percent higher risk of getting a divorce from their peers. Experts with the research team... |
25 May 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Intimate relationships are much better off if both partners show roughly the same level of commitment, rather than one of them being strongly committed, and the other, not so much. The conclusions are based on an innovative study carried out in the United States.The researchers used the Minnesota Longitudinal Study o... |
19 May 2011
04:17 GMT |
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Recently, more and more studies are beginning to demonstrate that people in couples may be no more successful at getting their point across to their companion as a stranger would be in the same circumstances. Psychologists have discovered that the same thing holds true for married couples, for friends who are very cl... |
16 March 2011
11:18 GMT |
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Studies have demonstrated that young parents are less happy than other parents of comparable age if they have many children. A new investigation shows that the correlation only holds until the parents reach mid-life, and beyond. At that time, they become truly happy about having a large family around them. Late-night... |
8 March 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Michigan (UM) have found in a new study that men and women have different views about living together, as well as different motives for doing so. Additionally, the two genders also expressed different concerns about cohabitation, the scientists learned. The study was conducted because,... |
11 February 2011
11:33 GMT |
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People are attracted to other people because of their appearance, their personality and their values, and those who get married believe they have found their match, but a new study says that there are many more things that make a relationship work, and the way people talk is one of them.It seems that people who speak... |
26 January 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Investigations conducted over the past few years have sought to determine how people go about taking into account risk when making decisions. This may be simple for single people, but all dynamics change inside couples, where important decisions are taken together. In most healthy relationships, men and women discuss... |
29 October 2010
20:01 GMT |
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A team of psychologists from the University of Basel propose that an increased level of ignorance about their partner's preferences is what allows many to go through long-term relationships.Love and compromise have their say in this as well, but being able to ignore a large amount of information about their bett... |
15 October 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Though it may seem a bit counterintuitive at first, mathematics can indeed explain some aspects of love. A researcher in Spain managed, for instance, to create an advanced theoretical model that is capable of explaining – at least in part – why divorce and break-up rates are continuously rising in the Uni... |
17 May 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, women with children have created a trend in which they place less emphasis on child-rearing, and more importance on their careers. This has led to many of them leaving their children at home with their dads, which also changed the traditional role that fathers have inside families. But an u... |
18 March 2010
10:27 GMT |
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The vast majority of people who have just ended a relationship experience a surprising feeling, which is most often expressed under the terms “I don't know who I am anymore.” According to a recent scientific investigation, they may be spot-on with this statement. Researchers suggest that longer-term ... |
12 March 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of British Columbia (UCB) state in a working paper that people who are married or in relationships tend to cope better with health shocks than those who are single. The work aimed at figuring out how people cope economically with disability and health problems, the team says. The new inve... |
28 December 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Arguably the biggest challenge in the life of a couple is fight. As spirits heat, one or the other may drop some words that he or she does not necessarily mean, but that are uttered precisely because the other will undoubtedly be hurt. Many otherwise happy couples split and marriages ended following such arguments, e... |
14 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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When couples with children divorce, the situation can sometimes become dramatic for the young ones. They are constantly away from one of their parents, which they only get to see at intervals established by court or the parents themselves. A new study comes to show that, in the case of children living with their moth... |
4 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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A new study, conducted by Brazilian experts, has proven that people, indeed, tend to choose their mates depending on their genetic traits, even if they only do so at an unconscious level. In fact, this makes things a lot more interesting to analyze. The new research looked at the genetic materials of married couples,... |
25 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Researchers have been interested in what makes a marriage tick for a long time, considering the fact that, in the United States alone, approximately 50 percent of couples divorce, and that a significant number of people get married more than once. Previous studies have shown that the first few months, or even years, ... |
24 April 2009
10:32 GMT |
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New scientific conclusions, which experts at the University of Denver (DU) and Texas A&M have drawn from an 8-year-long study of 218 couples, show that marital satisfaction decreases by various percentages after the first child is born in the family. This is not a small trend, researchers warn, as 90 percent of all t... |
9 April 2009
16:51 GMT |
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If we take a quick look at the celebrity world, we can find out that the most successful famous couples around the world have met a real challenge after they bound their destinies in marriage. And everyone says that no one could have predicted the gloomy outcome. Yet, scientists believe that the success of a marriage... |
20 February 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Neuroscientist Larry Young believes he may have found the answer to a millennia-old question – what is love? In a paper published recently in the journal Nature, the Emory University Yerkes National Primate Research Center scientist analyzed the responses of prairie voles, small mammals that are monogamous, to ... |
14 January 2009
04:33 GMT |
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This has got to be the best way to get some. Jennifer Chowdhury has developed a platform where video games are played by couples touching each other. Controls are placed on thin clothing parts such as a bra for the woman and a thin pair of shorts for the man and everything the two have to do is follow some on-screen... |
7 May 2007
04:49 GMT |
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The old saying "Opposites are attracted to each other" seems to be now scientifically proven.Because DNA experiments seem to enhance the idea that the long lasting happiness of a couple is linked to their biochemical difference. A team at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, US - led by psychologist Christine... |
8 January 2007
07:20 GMT |
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