PsychBriefs: March 16-22, 2008
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Attractive women want it all
While the qualities men look for in potential mates vary little with their own attractiveness, women calibrate their wants based on their own desirability. The more attractive a woman is, the higher her standards for physical attractiveness, loyalty, parenting potential and personal resources, shows a study on 107 married couples. The findings contradict previous research which suggested women sought security in long-term mates and attractiveness and masculinity for short-term beaus. [FULL TEXT] Most dads, many moms continue nicotine, alcohol and marijuana use during pregnancy About one in five pregnant women smoke cigarettes, while eight to nine percent smoke marijuana and two to three percent binge drink, shows research on parental substance use during pregnancy and two years after. Despite these rates, substance abuse levels did show a substantial drop during pregnancy, but were found to return to pre-pregnancy levels within two years after birth. Fathers' substance use was found to be almost completely unaffected by pregnancy, however, contributing to maternal difficulties with quitting. [FULL TEXT] Suicide levels high among divorced immigrants Divorced immigrants are more than twice as likely to commit suicide than Americans born in the U.S., shows new research on suicide. Findings also showed that immigrants who had lived in the U.S. for 10 to 19 years were three times as likely to commit suicide than those who had lived here for 20 years or more. [ARTICLE] SHARE:
Posted In: Alcoholism | Nicotine Addiction - Smoking | Suicide | Drug Addiction - Substance Abuse | Tags: Women | Smoking | Attractiveness | Nicotine | Immigrants | Suicide | Pregnancy | Alcohol | Substance Abuse | Posted by FindCounseling.com Staff on March 22, 2008 at 04:04 PM | Permalink |
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