iscuss in their article. At Gottman's Family Research Laboratory, he and his colleagues sought out to "quantify such intangibles (in a relationship) such as joy, contempt and tension". (Kantrowitz & Winger, 1999) This study involved studying volunteer's relationships within the offices of the laboratory. Gottman claims that the issue of divorce is a matter of public health, and is for this reason that the study was done. Although the authors do not specifically state that divorce is a serious social problem they do acknowledge that divorce has various ramifications in other aspects of life. They claim that the United States has one of the highest divorce rates among industrialized nations. They go on to say that studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between marriage and well-being. What we can obviously see is that if this correlation exists then there are many individuals out the
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