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Debunking 5 Myths of Sleeping Together
Wendy M. Troxel @wendytroxel
Sep 27, 2017
Media Planet
About a third of American adults choose not to sleep with their partner, and evidence suggests that their ranks are growing. This decision often results in social stigma, including some dubious assumptions that sleeping apart is a sign of a sexless or otherwise unhappy marriage.
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Military Families
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The Impact of Deployments on Military Marriages
Thomas E. Trail @TomETrail
Sep 2, 2016
Family Studies
The evidence linking combat deployments directly to poorer marital functioning has been sparse and contradictory. Although marital satisfaction among military couples declined from 2003 to 2009, the divorce rate among them remained steady.
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Military Families
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'In the Deployment Life Study, I Saw My Own Family'
M. M. Smith
Jul 18, 2016
SpouseBUZZ
RAND's Deployment Life Study was designed to examine how deployment affects the health and well-being of military families. M.M. Smith, an active-duty military spouse, offers her response to the study.
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Military Families
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The Resilience of Military Families
Jun 16, 2016
Deployment of a spouse and parent can shake a military family to its core. But according to RAND research, these families display remarkable resilience.
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Military Force Deployment
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Study Finds Most Military Families Are Resilient in Face of Deployment
Sarah O. Meadows @SarahOMeadows, Benjamin Karney
Apr 22, 2016
The RAND Blog
Despite the fact that service members, spouses, and their children experience frequent deployments to combat zones throughout the world, a recent study of more than 2,700 military families found that they generally fare well and adapt effectively to the stresses of deployment.
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Work-Family Conflicts
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UK and Europe Are Behind the Times for Single Mothers and Their Children
Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD, Kai Ruggeri
Mar 11, 2015
The RAND Blog
Single parents head 10.4 percent of households with children across Europe — 20.4 percent in the UK — and the socioeconomic gap between single- and two-parent households continues to grow. Accessible and flexible work policies are needed to improve employment conditions for single parents, especially mothers.
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Marriage and Divorce
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Gay Marriage Gains Support, but It's Still a Partisan Issue
Katherine Grace Carman @KGCarman, Michael Pollard
Dec 29, 2014
Newsweek
Survey data provides evidence that the majority of American voters support the legalization of gay marriage and think it should be decided at the federal level. Republicans are substantially less likely to support legalization, and lower income, lower educational attainment, being older, and being non-white are significantly associated with lower levels of support.
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Financial Decision Making
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Are Youth Putting Off Marriage Because of Their Student Loan Debt?
Robert Bozick
Jun 26, 2014
The RAND Blog
Women with higher loan balances may be less likely to get married than their peers with lower or no loan balances. But as time goes on, young adults adjust to their post-college financial situation and eventually get promotions, earn raises, obtain other assets, and get married.
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Sleep
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Some Tired Myths About Sleeping with Your Valentine, or Not
Wendy M. Troxel @wendytroxel
Feb 14, 2014
The Huffington Post
Two-thirds of U.S. adults report that they regularly sleep with a partner. Yet, through 60 years or so of sleep research, scientists have tended to view sleep as an individual behavior, largely ignoring the potential impact of bedmates.
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