Word: tend
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...average 401(k) participant who gets a matching contribution in company shares has 55% of 401(k) assets in the stock of his or her employer, according to a recent study by the Investment Company Institute. Even those who do not get a matching contribution in company stock tend to have a lot of the stuff, having directed their own contributions that way for years...
...come easily to Kevin and Kim Knussman. First there was a painful year of fertility treatments. Then complications in Kim's pregnancy forced her doctors to induce labor prematurely, leaving her bedridden. Kevin, a trooper with the Maryland state police for 18 years, applied for extended leave to tend to his wife and infant, a request that fell under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and a state law that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak to care...
...unlikely quarter--academe. According to a controversial report released by the National Marriage Project, a group committed to "revitalizing marriage," based at Rutgers University in New Jersey, cohabiting couples are more likely to experience a host of domestic problems--including, if they finally get married, divorce. "Cohabiting unions tend to weaken the institution of marriage and pose clear and present dangers for women and children," states the report, which culled the results of recent studies on nonmarital cohabitation as well as--yikes!--that tome of scholarly erudition, The Rules...
Last year in the U.S., more than 4 million unmarried heterosexual couples shacked up, in contrast to only half a million at the end of the supposedly free-spirited '60s. Though living together has become conventional, the report cites studies showing that these unions, in comparison to marriages, tend to have more episodes of domestic violence to women and physical and sexual abuse of children. It notes that annual rates of depression among unmarried couples are more than three times those of married couples...
Does cohabitation really make divorce more likely? Or are the people who cohabit simply the same sort of people who tend to divorce? A devoutly Roman Catholic couple, for example, might skip living together and go straight into a long-running marriage, while a couple who at the outset are doubtful of marriage might live together first before trying a marriage that fails. "It is inappropriate and simplistic to treat cohabitation as the major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly...