Fwd: To minimize divorce risk, don't marry too young—or old (and more Family Studies articles)

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This Week on Family-Studies.org

Sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger showed that the link between age at first marriage and divorce risk has changed in recent years, and marital therapist Steven Harris explained how a recent NBA contract dispute resembles an unhappy marriage. David Lapp questioned whether working-class young people even want much-lamented factory jobs to come back. Finally, Anna Sutherland documented how parents are supporting their adult children these days.

The Right Age to Marry

by Nicholas H. Wolfinger

If you hope to avoid divorce, what’s the ideal age to get married? For years, it seemed like the longer you waited to marry, the better. But now, the best time is the late 20s or early 30s.

Not Everyone Wants Factory Jobs

by David Lapp

We hear a lot about how the loss of factory jobs hurt the working class. But many young people in that demographic have tried working in factories—and don’t want to go back.

Court-ship and Marriage

by Steven M. Harris

Why the NBA contract drama involving DeAndre Jordan and Mark Cuban reminds one marital therapist of struggling couples on the brink of divorce.

IFS Around the Web

Jordan Weissmann reported on Nicholas Wolfinger’s  findings about age at marriage and divorce risk at Slate. He terms the new trend “the Goldilocks theory of marriage: Getting married too early is risky, but so is getting married too late.”

After the Demographic Dividend

by Anna Sutherland

In the right circumstances, falling fertility rates can spur economic growth. But in some nations they fall too far, which only creates new challenges. [From the archives]

Supporting Adult Children

by Anna Sutherland

These days, many parents provide financial and other forms of support to their sons and daughters well after they turn 18. But is their well-intended help doing more harm than good?
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