Journal Article

Marriage in the New Millennium: A Decade in Review

Fincham, Frank D., Beach, Steven R. H.

2010

Overview

This review focuses on broad themes characterizing marital research in the past decade. In addition to continuing themes, such as a focus on conflict, violence, and impact on physical and mental health outcomes, we also address the impact of the Healthy Marriage Initiative on marital research and recent advances in methodology. We highlight an overarching theme that characterizes much of the literature: the importance of context in understanding marital outcomes and the impact of positive marital transactions and marital strengths. Given the increasing diversity of married couples, the attention given to context over the past decade has been timely and appropriate, providing an increasingly solid foundation for future research.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,National Council on Family Relations,Wiley-Blackwell,Wiley
• Subject: African Americans / Child Rearing / Conflict / Couples / Cultural Pluralism / Divorce / Domestic violence / dyadic data / Dyadics / Family (Sociological Unit) / family diversity / family policy / Family Violence / Federal Programs / Health promotion / Health status / History and organization of sociology / History and present state / History, theory and methodology / Human aggression / Infidelity / Intermarriage / Intimate partner violence / marital conflict / Marital life / Marital satisfaction / Marriage / Marriage, Family Processes, and Well-Being / Married couples / Men / Mental Health / Mental Health Services / Multiculturalism / Physical Health / religion / Research Methodology / Research trends / Researchers / Role of Religion / Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations / Social change / Social conditions & trends / Social interaction / Social Science Research / Sociology / Sociology of the family. Age groups / Spouses / Transactions / Treatment Outcomes / Violence