Whether it's attainable for most Americans or not, the "blue family" model clearly works: it leads to marital success and material prosperity, and it's well suited to our mobile, globalized society.
We also controlled for race, maternal IQ, per capita family income, maternal age, environmental tobacco smoke exposure during pregnancy, marital status, education, material hardship, and the child's sex, gestational age at birth, and exact age in days at testing.
He soon left home, leaving all material and marital pleasures behind," he said.
The bureau has always relished gathering material about marital and extramarital conduct, and it comments that Dreiser was "indicted in 1931 in Bell County, Kentucky, for Criminal Syndicalism and Adultery".
The migrants had lived in the UK for 1 13 years and were at different stages of their lives; the samples included 5 postgraduate students and 27 post-education migrants; 14 were married and 19 were unmarried.4 That the respondents were at different stages in their career and marital status provided further material for analysing the impact of the life cycle on transnational families.
It was this close suburban life, with its dreary drunken rituals and stolid neighbors, along with the Yateses' frequent marital fighting, that provided the material for "Revolutionary Road," though most of the book was written not there but in the small town of Mahopac, New York, where the Yateses lived in a ramshackle cottage on a genteelly rotting private estate.
Parents and siblings often proved a more reliable and enduring source of emotional, financial, and material support than marital partners (Niehaus 1994; Preston-Whyte 1978 , 1988.
Parents are less likely to remain together if fathers have to seek work elsewhere or if material hardship exacerbates marital tensions (Babalola, Tambashe, and Vondrasek 2005; Borawski et al. 2003).
We have choice -- in jobs, marital status, parenthood, sexuality, speech, reading material, religion and more.
But others permitted it, believing it reduced deductions for the marital and charitable expenses only if it created "material limitations" on the beneficiary's rights, material being something the IRS has never bothered to define.
