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February 17, 2005 Study on Putting Marriage Back Together Seeks Participants Marriage in today’s society involves tasks that range from managing a budget to managing your temper, with lots of love, communication and common sense included. The likelihood of divorce for an average married couple today is between 40 percent and 45 percent. However, a recent study by sociologist Linda Waite, of the University of Chicago, showed that two-thirds of unhappily married individuals who avoided divorce or separation rated themselves as happily married five years later. What happened? Sean Brotherson, North Dakota State University family researcher, is seeking to answer that question in a new study focused on couples who put their marriages back together. “We know that many couples discuss separation or divorce, but then stick together,” Brotherson says. “We want to learn how they successfully overcame those challenges. No one has really looked carefully at this phenomenon before.” Brotherson has approval to conduct the research through NDSU and is seeking participants for the study. “We need to learn from couples who are now in stable marriage relationships, but at one time in the past encountered the threat of separation or divorce,” Brotherson says. He is seeking interested couples who would be willing to be interviewed as part of the putting- marriage-back-together study. Interested couples can receive more information or enroll in the study by contacting Brotherson at (701) 231-6143 or (701) 231-8113. Brotherson can be reached by e-mail at sbrother@ndsuext.nodak.edu. ### Source:
Sean Brotherson, (701) 231-6143, sbrother@ndsuext.nodak.edu |
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