Breaking up is hard to do: Women's experience of dissolving their same-sex relationship

ABSTRACT

While prior research has compared same-sex to heterosexual relationships, very little attention has been paid to the unique experiences of women dissolving same-sex relationships, especially in the context of shifting legal and social policies. The current study examined the experience of 20 women who dissolved their same-sex relationship between 2002 and 2014. Participants were drawn from a longitudinal sample of same-sex and heterosexual couples and were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol. Interviews focused on three primary research questions: reasons for dissolution, emotional reactions, and role of legal status. While reasons for dissolution largely mirrored literature on women in heterosexual relationships, emotional reactions and the role of legal status were both influenced by sexual minority-specific factors related to minority stress and the recent societal changes pertaining to legal relationship recognition. Results are interpreted in a framework of minority stress and the ongoing legacy of institutional discrimination experienced by women in same-sex relationships.     

Understanding Sterilization Regret in the United States: The Role of Relationship Context

Although one fourth of sterilized reproductive‐aged women in the United States express a desire to have their sterilization procedures reversed, the pathways leading to sterilization regret remain insufficiently understood. Particularly little is known about how cohabitation affects the likelihood of sterilization regret. This study used data from the 2006 to 2010 National Survey of Family Growth to investigate how relationship context shapes women's risk of sterilization regret. Our findings point to higher levels of regret among women who were cohabiting, rather than married or single at the time of sterilization. Experiencing poststerilization union dissolution or poststerilization union formation was also associated with an elevated risk of regret. Together, poststerilization union instability and selected background characteristics largely explained elevated levels of regret observed among women who were cohabiting at the time of sterilization. An association between regret and poststerilization union instability persisted, however, even when socioeconomic and reproductive background factors were controlled.     

Differential in Pattern and Risk Factors of Marital Dissolution Among Better Developed and the Poorly Developed States in India

The objective of this study is to determine the differentials in the prevalence and risk factors of marital dissolution in poorly developed (i.e., empowered action group [EAG]) and better developed (i.e., non-empowered action group [non-EAG]) states in India. Data from the India Human Development Surveys (IHDS) Round 2, conducted in 2011 and 2012 in India, are used for the study. Multiple logistic regression analysis has been carried out. Higher education is related to elevated risks of marital dissolution in EAG states, whereas an inverse relationship is observed in non-EAG states. For EAG and non-EAG states, staying with one’s parents and staying alone without a parent after marriage, working, and residing in urban areas significantly increase the risk of marital disruption for women. Lower marital dissolution risk is observed among women who have at least 1 child in both EAG and non-EAG states.     

Theoretical Explanatory Model of International Adoption Failure: Attachment and Ecological Systems Perspectives

International adoption, the transfer of children for parenting purposes from one nation to another, presents an extreme form of what is often known as “stranger” adoption, in contrast to relative adoption (Bartholet, 2005 Bartholet, E. (2005). International adoption. In L. Askeland (Ed.), Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care (pp. 107–130). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. [Google Scholar], p. 8). Adoption brings major changes to the lives of children and adoptive parents. Intercountry adoptions are associated with high monetary costs, long waiting periods to adopt, changes of the family environment, and cultural challenges, along with other bureaucratic and socioeconomic factors. This paper explores the issue of international adoption failure through the prism of two theories: attachment theory and ecological systems theory. The author begins with a brief history of international adoption into the United States, followed by a discussion of factors contributing into adoption failure as discussed in other literature. Next, adoption failure is theoretically analyzed using the concepts of attachment and ecological systems theories. Suggestions for adoption practitioners are included.     

论公司解散清算僵局的成因及其司法救济——兼谈《公司法》公司特别清算制度的完善

分析公司解散清算僵局的表现、成因及制度运作的司法救济问题。指出我国《公司法》规定的公司清算制度存在的问题。提出从明确公司解散清算义务人的概念、范围及其法律责任等方面的完善措施。     

An inferential procedure for the probability of passing the USP dissolution test

Dissolution is one of the tests that is required and specified by the United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary (USP/NF) to ensure that the drug products meet the standards of the identity, strength, quality, purity, and stability. The sponsors also establish the in‐house specifications for the mean and standard deviation of the dissolution rates to guarantee a high probability of passing the USP/NF dissolution test. However, the USP/NF dissolution test is a complicated three‐stage sampling plan that involves both the sample mean dissolution rate of all units and the dissolution rate of individual units. It turns out that the true probability of passing the USP/NF dissolution is formidable to compute analytically even when the population mean and variance of dissolution rates are known. It is not clear that previously proposed methods are the estimators of the true probability for passing the USP dissolution test. Therefore, we propose to employ a parametric bootstrap method in conjunction with the Monte Carlo simulation to obtain the sampling distribution of the estimated probabilities of passing the USP/NF dissolution test and hence the confidence interval for the passing probability. In addition, a procedure is proposed to test whether the true probability of passing the USP/NF dissolution test is greater than some specified value. A numerical example illustrates the proposed method. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

环境保护行政合同的变更与解除

环境保护行政合同通常具有时间跨度大、涉及面广等特性,在此期间,如发生导致双方权利义务关系发生重大变化的事由,变更或者解除制度是平衡当事人之间权利义务的必要工具。在相关制度安排与设计中,既要注意并尊重环境保护行政合同与民事合同相关制度的共性,更要关注两者个性所带来的影响并做出相应的安排。     

The economic consequences of the dissolution of cohabiting unions

Although the economic effects of divorce have been well studied, a similar exploration of cohabitation has not been conducted. For this analysis, we use a sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 2,372) documenting changes in economic well‐being at the end of a cohabiting relationship and comparing these results to a sample of divorced respondents. After dissolution, formerly cohabiting men's economic standing declines moderately, whereas formerly cohabiting women's declines much more precipitously, leaving a substantial proportion of women in poverty. This effect is particularly pronounced for African American and Hispanic women. Though the end of the relationship does reinforce gender stratification, it is also an “equalizer” between married and cohabiting women, leaving them in strikingly similar economic positions.