Social risk factors are increasingly recognized as important determinants of health status in childhood and through the life course. Low social class origins have long been recognized for their association with suboptimal health and longevity (Luo and Waite 2005; Turrell et al. 2007). A growing body of life course research is beginning to explain how…

In the past 50 years, research on divorce has grown exponentially. A search of the database PsychInfo from 1962 to the present using the search term “divorc*” returned a total of 14,955 citations.1 A graph of this growth by decade is depicted in Figure?1, indicating an average of 514 citations per year over the last…