On average, recent studies show parents and children in married families are happier, healthier, wealthier, and better adjusted than those in single-parent households. But these averages conceal wide variations. Before betting the farm on marriage — with a host of new government programs aimed at promoting traditional two-parent families and discouraging divorce — policy makers […]
E. Hetherington
E. Mavis Hetherington is emeritus professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. The results of her studies are most recently reported in For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered, co-written with John Kelly.