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Differences in Couples' Drinking and Smoking Habits Threaten Long-Term Marriage
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Excessive drinking or smoking by a husband or wife can strain a marriage. However, is it substance use specifically that causes problems within a relationship, or is it the difference in the amount of drinking ...
Overworking husbands drive working wives back into the home, study finds
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Americans work longer hours than ever. That not only hurts women's careers but also widens the gender gap and threatens to trigger a resurgence of the traditional homemaker/breadwinner family structure in dual-earner households, ...
Long work hours widen the gender gap
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Working overtime has a disproportionate impact on women in dual-earner households, exacerbating gender inequality and supporting the "separate sphere" phenomenon in which men are the breadwinners while women tend to the home, ...
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Commitment to marriage, emotional engagement key to wives' happiness
Mar 02, 2006 |
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A study by University of Virginia sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock finds that the single most important factor in women's marital happiness is the level of their husbands' emotional engagement -- not money, ...
When couples face the diagnosis of cancer, women carry a larger emotional burden than men
Feb 29, 2008 |
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In a couple where one of the partners is diagnosed with cancer, women are more consistently and severely distressed than men, regardless of whether they are the person with the disease or the healthy partner. The results ...
Study: Many women out-earn husbands
Oct 27, 2005 |
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A Saint Louis University study finds up to 20 percent of U.S. wives earn more money than their husbands.
Battle of the Sexes: Study Reveals Married Men Lag Behind in Household Chores
Aug 30, 2007 |
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A woman shouldn't be surprised if the man she's lived with suddenly stops taking out the trash or putting away the dirty dishes after they get married. The results of a recent international study conducted by researchers ...
Thoughtful words help couples stay fighting fit
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system.
Women in India abused by husbands at far greater risk for HIV infection
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 12, 2008 |
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India is home to the third-largest number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the world and, as in the U.S. and many African nations, the rate of infection among women continues to rise faster than that among men. ...
Couples are better able to cope with health shocks than singles: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Marital status plays a significant role in how individuals cope economically with disability and health shocks, according to a working paper by University of British Columbia economists Giovanni Gallipoli and Laura Turner.
The Virgin Mary strikes back
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Bolivian pilgrims ask the Virgin Mary for money and revenge. Bolivian pilgrims come to her in huge numbers to complain about their poor financial position and the neoliberal system which they blame for this. Women also grab ...
Study finds wives have greater power in marriage problem-solving behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Men may still have more power in the workplace, but apparently women really are "the boss" at home. That's according to a new study by a team of Iowa State University researchers.
New study finds smoking predicts increased stroke risk for your spouse
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Although Second Hand Smoke (SHS) is widely accepted as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, there have been few studies investigating the association of SHS and stroke risk. In a new study, published in the September ...
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