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Changes in marital satisfaction over 11 years are investigated in a three-generation sample of Mexican Americans from the San Antonio area originally interviewed during 1981-82 and reinterviewed in 1992-93. Among persons married to the same spouses, results showed no significant changes in the negative sentiment component of the Guilford and Bengtson marital satisfaction scale in any of the categories. However, significant declines in the positive interaction component were observed among women in all generations and among younger males. Declines among women over 11 years were consistent with cross-sectional findings at baseline showing successively lower positive interaction from younger to older generations among women. Results are discussed with regard to the U-shaped curve suggested by the literature on marital satisfaction across the life cycle.

Do nightmares increase or decrease anxiety? Theoretical views of nightmares suggest that nightmares play out stressful events, decathecting their energy. A more pragmatic view suggests that nightmares that result in waking distress add to the burden of anxiety. The current study investigates whether negative life events are associated with an increase or decrease in anxiety attributable to nightmares in 624 adolescents aged between 12 and 19. The results indicate no support for a tension reduction hypothesis. There seems no relief from anxiety if a person reports nightmares, and the stronger the distress of waking (from nightmares), the more likely a person is to report anxiety, controlling for life events and the distress associated with life events.

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immunisation. This difference was significant (p= <0 005, x2 analysis). While it is assumed that half of those women might have a live birth after numerous additional abortions, these abortions may be prevented by immunotherapy. Moreover, women who have had one spontaneous abortion who have their immune response altered by immunotherapy seem to have second subsequently successful pregnancies. (This has occurred in all five patients who have become pregnant a second time in our series.) Though such women have spontaneously successful pregnancies, however, they seem to revert to their tendency to abort afterwards. Nine patients in our series had two or more abortions after a spontaneously successful pregnancy. Only one patient had two subsequently successful pregnancies after one spontaneous abortion. We therefore consider immunotherapy to be a most effective form of treatment for women who have had missed abortions, and the results of Drs Vlaanderen and Treffers do not convince us other