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Study shows how to lower divorce rate among poor Americans: Raise the minimum wage
When states increased their minimum hourly wage by $1, divorce rates declined by 7% to 15% among those earning low wages.
Is One Really the Loneliest Number?
Professor Naomi Eisenberger, who studies how the brain and body react to relationships, looks at isolation during the pandemic.
Friendship Now
Relationships are tricky, and the pandemic has forced us to interact differently. How do our vital connections survive these stress tests?
Joint bank accounts make for happier couples
Those who keep finances separate are likelier to split up and be less satisfied, according to a working paper from researchers at UCLA Anderson, Notre Dame and University College of London.
Feb. 1-March 8: Learn skills for effective interpersonal relationships
The UCLA Staff and Faculty Counseling Center is offering a six-week informational support group to help gain skills to enjance personal and professional relationships.
The pain of chronic loneliness can be detrimental to your health
The pain of loneliness can cut deeper than a knife. But its implications go beyond inner turmoil and the corrosion of emotional health. It can contribute to a host of debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases.
UCLA faculty voice: Relationship advice from the government doesn’t help low-income couples
Partners not earning much money are likely to struggle because they face challenges outside of their marriage, not communication within their marriage.
Caring for transgender patients
It’s important for medical professionals to understand that one’s gender identity as man, woman or trans is different from one’s sexual identity as gay, bisexual, lesbian or heterosexual.
Aging gay men face challenges after living through AIDS, cultural shifts
Many midlife and older gay men experience the stress of being part of a sexual minority group. They perceive that they need to conceal their sexual orientation, or that others are uncomfortable with or avoid them because they are gay.
Psychiatrist applauds film about 1930's sex-change pioneer
Dr. Vernon Rosario, an expert on LGBT mental health issues, comments on "The Danish Girl," a movie about one of the first individuals to undergo a sex change.
UCLA faculty voice: With ruling on marriage equality, fight for gay families is next
Law professor Douglas NeJaime writes in the Los Angeles Times that the struggle for full legal protections and equal rights has not ended for gay and lesbian families.
UCLA faculty voice: What should you do if your son says he’s a girl?
The director of the Center for Gender-Based Biology at UCLA co-wrote an op-ed stating that we should be careful not to confuse the properly banned gay-conversion therapy with potentially helpful therapy for gender dysphoria.
Gay marriage would help America’s most vulnerable kids
Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law writes in an op-ed that data shows same-sex couples are far more likely to raise adopted or foster children.
Q&A: An estranged son unearths his troubled and reclusive mother's past
Blake Allmendinger, a scholar of literature of the American West, has written a memoir about his mother, an eccentric recluse from whom he was estranged.
Anderson professor shows reputation is a measure of your mystique
UCLA Anderson associate professor Maia Young studies organizational behavior, and some of her research involves your reputation as a leader, as someone who knows how to get things done. If you have a bit of mystique, that enhances people's perception of you.
Helping seriously ill children, families cope with the unfathomable
UCLA’s Children's Pain and Comfort Care team at Mattel Children's Hospital works to succor pediatric, adolescent and young-adult patients in their days of need and to help their families grapple with the unfathomable: the death of that young patient.