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Divorce in later life has been shown to produce dramatic declines in the economic, psychological, and physical well-being of marital partners. This study examines the prevalence and determinants of marital disruption after midlife using Becker's theory of marital instability. Using recent Canadian national data, the marital outcomes of women and men who were married as of age 40 are tracked across the remaining years of the marriage. Cox proportional hazard regression models indicate stabilizing effects of the duration of the marriage, the age at first marriage, the presence of young children, as well as of remarriage for middle-aged and older persons. Other significant risk factors include education, heterogamous marital status, premarital cohabitation, number of siblings, and region.

This paper parts company from psychological and much of systems based theorising on the nature of marital instability, and asks whether there might not be fresh insights available from a model of organisational recuperation and decay derived from economic and political analysis. It focuses on situations of incipient marital breakdown as ones in which the participants are confronted by a choice between exit, voice and loyalty, and draws out some of the analytical and therapeutic implications of such an approach.

We review the relationship between female labor supply and marital instability. Traditionally, the sociological literature has focused on the impact of female labor supply on the likelihood of divorce with specific reference to the independence hypothesis. However, recent studies in sociology and economics provide more consistent evidence that the direction of causality may be the other way around. Women might increase their labor supply in the anticipation of divorce. We review the methodological developments in measuring economic independence and the recent evidence on its impact on divorce. Then we turn our attention to the alternative literature on the impact of divorce on female labor supply. We outline the theoretical arguments put forward by this literature, discuss the methodological issues in establishing causality, summarize the findings, and suggest avenues of further research.

This study uses a national sample of married persons under age 55, interviewed in 1980 and again in 1983, to estimate why divorce and marital instability vary by age and duration of marriage. Results indicate that the accumulation of assets substantially reduces the propensity to divorce. We also find that several important correlates of divorce and instability (age at marriage, health, social integration, and income) interact with age and duration. In general, these factors seem to operate almost exclusively among young people and young marriages.

Marriage is a recognised social institution, not only for establishing and maintaining the family, but also for creating and sustaining the tiles of kinship. However, marital instability has become an issue of concern in Nigeria. It was against this background that the study investigated cultural factors and marital instability among named women in southwest, Nigeria. It explored the prevalence of marital instability and also determined the relationship between cultural factors and marital instability. The study adopted descriptive research design of the survey type. The population consisted of all married women in Government Ministries and Departments in Southwest, Nigeria while 1703 respondents were selected to form the sample of the study through multi stage sampling procedure. Cultural Factors and Marital Instability Questionnaire (CFMIQ) was self-designed by the researcher and used to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated by experts in the fields of Tests and Measurement. The reliability of the instrument was determined by conducting a pilot study to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and reliability value of 0.833 was obtained. The findings of this study revealed that the most prevalent forms of marital instability experienced by married women included unfaithfulness, disagreement, fighting, views not respected, communication gap, lack of sexual satisfaction, parental interference, lack of respect to parents and lack of care for the children. Furthermore, in-law interference and childlessness were associated with marital instability while cultural belief and religion were not associated with marital instability among married women. It was recommended among others that health educators should give more sensitization talk on sexual education and family life education. Keywords: Cultural Factors, Marital Instability, Married Women, ; This article has been published at www.easij.com , Issue:5, Vol.#1, May 2020.

This study is concerned with the causes of juvenile delinquency among the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho. Marital instability is examined in the past and present for its relationship to contemporary juvenile delinquency. Additional factors considered include the loss of aboriginal communal discipline, the loss of patrilocality, and the continuation of inappropriate aboriginal male and female roles into the present.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ABOUT THE EDITOR -- Introduction -- ISSUES OF MARITAL INSTABILITY -- Divorce and the Wheel Theory of Love -- The Wheel Theory of Love -- Method -- Discussion -- Conclusions and Implications -- Symmetricality and Complementarity and Their Relationship to Marital Stability -- Symmetrical and Complementary Relationships -- Method -- Findings -- Discussion -- Demographic Subgroup Contributions to Divorce Cause Constellations -- Methods -- Results and Discussion -- Conclusions -- Profiles of the Divorce Prone: The Self Involved Narcissist -- Introduction -- Problems of Divorce and Remarriage -- Illustrative Cases -- Composite Profiles -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Divorce Likelihood Among Anglos and Mexican Americans -- Introduction -- Methods -- Analysis and Results -- Discussion and Conclusions -- DIVORCE OUTCOME PATTERNS -- Traumas versus Strens: A Paradigm of Positive versus Negative Divorce Outcomes -- The Normalization of Divorce -- Factors Associated with Nonproblematic Divorce -- Implications: Minimizing Divorce Trauma -- Implications: Suggestions for Research -- An Exploratory Analysis of the Construct of Leavers versus Left as It Relates to Levinger's Social Exchange Theory of Attractions, Barriers, and Alternative Attractions -- Hypotheses -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Initiator Status and Separation Adjustment -- Introduction -- Concerns About the Research -- Observations from Clinical Practice -- Conclusion -- A Preliminary Investigation of Family Systems' Influences on Individual Divorce Adjustment -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- After the Divorce: Familial Factors That Predict Well-Being for Older and Younger Persons -- Introduction -- Methods and Procedures -- Results -- Discussion