A Halloween Post
Tim (Blurred Brain) wrote one of the quirkiest posts I’ve read on the internet: Everything I need to know about Christianity I learned from zombie movies. He suggests Zombie movies have taught him four things: 1) The World is Passing Away James 4:14 assures us all that we are nothing more than a vapor that [...]
Divorce Myths: #4
Myth #4: Having a child together will help a couple to improve their marital satisfaction and prevent a divorce. (From David Popenoe’s Top Ten Myths of Divorce.) Popenoe writes: Many studies have shown that the most stressful time in a marriage is after the first child is born. Couples who have a child together have [...]
Divorce Myths: #3
Divorce Myth #3: Divorce may cause problems for many of the children who are affected by it, but by and large these problems are not long lasting and the children recover relatively quickly. (From David Popenoe’s Top Ten Myths of Divorce.) Popenoe cites Judith Wallerstein’s research (The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: The 25 Year Landmark [...]
Nap Time
When the girls were small my wife would occasionally get on to me for “goofing off” in the middle of the day. “I wasn’t goofing off”, I would tell her. “I was modeling appropriate napping behavior.” Now I have the scientists at Cornell University on my side. The subjects (who napped) showed improved cognitive performance [...]
Divorce Myths: #2
Myth #2: Living together before marriage is a good way to reduce the chances of eventually divorcing. (From David Popenoe’s Top Ten Myths of Divorce.) The popular conception is that cohabitation is a good predictor of success in marriage. When I talk with the college students I teach the belief that cohabiting before marriage is [...]
Divorce Myths
David Popenoe of the National Marriage Project has a list of Top Ten Myths of Divorce. These were too good to pass up; the first myth is below. Myth #1. Because people learn from their bad experiences, second marriages tend to be more successful than first marriages. Seventy-five percent (75%) of those who get divorced [...]
Does Divorce Make People Happy?
As part of a report entitled, Does Divorce Make People Happy, a team headed by Linda Waite examined longitudinal data from the NSFH (Waite et al., 2002). Among the findings, of those who were very unhappy in their marriages at one time point, two-thirds of those who stayed together were happy 5 years later. These [...]
