All over America, divorce and marital problems seem rampant. Marriages today
face numerous problems right from the very start. This book examines
the variable happiness with marriage within the context of 14 independent
variables. The 14 independent variables are sex, number of years of education,
income, church attendance, job satisfaction, importance of having a fulfilling
job, work hours, age, television hours watched per day, number of children,
class identification, divorce, race, and religious denomination. The purpose
of this work is to help expose factors that affect marital happiness and
to then suggest policy ideas that are directed at alleviating these problems.
This book would be important to anyone that is married or thinking about
getting married because it helps uncover the problem areas that most affect
the overall happiness of the institution of marriage. This book will arm the
reader with pertinent knowledge on, not only identifying the problem areas
of marriage, but also on ways to help fix these problem areas in such a way
that the marriage could be saved.