MarriageTweets

With rising unemployment and dwindling retirement nest eggs, many people, even those who have jobs and relative economic stability, say they are gripped by anxiety and fear. In hard times, marital relationships are subject to a lot of stress. Are they likely to be threatened? Or possibly strengthened? What are the factors that might determine how a marriage will fare? // The following five experts give their perceptive on the hard times: Stephanie Coontz, marriage historian, Betsey Stevenson, professor of business and public policy, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Institute for American Values, Paul Amato, sociologist and demographer, and Pepper Schwartz, sociologist.