Kids and economic troubles challenge marriages

The World

Recent studies have shown that parents with young kids can put a solid marriage on the rocks. So what happens when you add a national economic crisis to the mix? Yale psychology professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and Lamar Tyler, blogger at the parenting website BlackandMarriedwithKids.com, say that it’s particularly hard for loving married couples to connect when times are tough.

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