tailieunhanh - Work-Related Health Limitations, Education, and the Risk of Marital Disruption

Advocates worldwide recognize the need to address the political and social context in which young people make decisions about sex and reproduction. Globally, commitment to meeting YRH needs has never been higher. International conferences and agreements such as the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the . World Program of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, and the 2001 . General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS have affirmed the needs of young people for information, counseling, and high- quality sexual and reproductive health services. . | Journal of Marriage and Family npfr Jay Teachman Western Washington University Work-Related Health Limitations Education and the Risk of Marital Disruption Despite progress in identifying the covariates of divorce there remain substantial gaps in the knowledge. One of these gaps is the relationship between health and risk of marital dissolution. I extend prior research by examining the linkages between work-related health limitations and divorce using 25 years of data N 7919 taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth NLSY-79 . I found that work-related health limitations among husbands but not wives were linked to an increased risk of divorce. In addition I found that this relationship was moderated by education in a fashion that varies according to race. For White men education exacerbated the effect of health limitations but for Black men education attenuated the effects of work-related health limitations. Over the past 30 years social scientists have expended considerable effort in ascertaining the determinants of marital dissolution Amato 2000 Becker Landes Michael 1977 Bumpass Martin Sweet 1991 Teachman 2002 White 1990 . Although a number of robust findings have been identified there remain substantial gaps in our knowledge of the covariates of divorce. One of these gaps is health. Very little research has been conducted on the relationship between health and risk of Department of Sociology Western Washington University Bellingham WA 98225-9081 . Key Words divorce education families and work health NLSY-79. marital dissolution despite strong theoretical rationales for such a link to occur. In this article I extend prior research by examining the linkages between work-related health limitations and divorce using 25 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth NLSY-79 . Recognizing that the role played by health in marriage may vary according to gender education and race I examined how those variables