My essential question was how much can prison change a dating relationship? The category is social.

This article took 614 couples into their research from before when they considered each other and intimate couple but after one of them was released from prison fewer couples considered eachother not an intimate couple. Throughout this experiment over half of the men involved said it was easy going back into a relationship after incarceration. Just about half of the women said it was easy going back into a relationship. But surprisingly the spouses that would come back after incarceration gave more attention to their spouse, gave emotional support. They even stayed together for even longer after the incarceration. The findings show that after incarceration couples find themselves happier and in a better relationship.

My essential question for the book, “Scarlet Letter”, is how much can prison change a dating relationship? The category for this question is social. The author of a, “Scarlet Letter”, was Nathaniel Hawthorne.

This source is from a website called The Department of U.S. Health and Human Services. Their article is titled “Change in couples relationships before, during, and after incarceration: couple relationships”. This article discusses and explains an experiment they did where it involved couples whose spouse was incarcerated and how it changed their relationship afterward.

“First, we assessed rates and predictors of self-defined relationship status” (Lindquist 2)

“had been together longer, engaged in more contact during the male partner’s incarceration, had stronger attitudinal and behavioral support” (Lindquist 8)

“Predictors of self-defined relationship status, coresidence, and exclusivity after release were then identified using multivariate logistic regression models” (Lindquist)