Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Governor Abbott Names Chair, Appoints Three To Texas Commission On Marriage And Family






2. National Marriage Week seeking partners

The 2026 theme is "Together With Purpose."







3. The baby bust is here. How will the world economy cope?

The Economist






4. Why Does Age-Related Pressure Feel So Different Across Cultures?

Lu Zang and Heejung Kim





6. Cost of Raising a Child in Each U.S. State – 2025 Study

 Jaclyn DeJohn, CFP®


and/or

How can the U.S. make it more affordable to have kids?

Lauren Irwin







HUMAN, TECHNOLOGIES AND QUALITY OF EDUCATION, 2025 https://doi.org/10.22364/htqe.2025.11









8. Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists

Nicola Davis, Science correspondent









10. How Trump Can Save the Future

Michael Toscano


https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-trump-can-save-the-future/




11. Utah official links families, social capital to best state ranking

By Tenaya Hyde-Harrison








Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Engaging and Serving Young Fathers

  • Tova Walsh, Raheem Brooks, Angie Haney, Justin Harty, and Avery Hennigar
  • November 19, 2025, 1:00–2:00 pm Eastern
https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/engaging-and-serving-young-fathers/





2. Family benefits in America: 2024 report card

https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/stress-in-america/2025



4. Strong families make a strong democracy

Jeffrey Nielsen




6. Living with a loved one’s mental health issue: Recognizing the Lived Experiences of Military Spouses

Emma Senior, Amanda Clarke, Gemma Wilson-Menzfeld


https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0336295




7. Marriage and Divorce in 2025: Five Trends Shaping Today’s Families

https://www.barna.com/trends/marriage-divorce-trends-2025/




8. Why Helping Dads Reduce This Source of Children’s Trauma is So Crucial






Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Love Notes and Life Lessons: Building Resilience among Youth Where It’s Needed Most

November 12 @ 1:00 pm Pacific/4:00 pm Eastern







2. 
American families in an era of rapid change

Friday, November 14, 2025, 10:00 — 11:30 a.m. EST






3. Ireland sees record number of babies born to mothers aged 45 and older




4. Saying “Thank You” Inspires Your Partner to Help More

Emily R. O’Brien and Amanda L. Forest






5. The Neuroscience behind the ‘Parenting Paradox’ of Happiness

Anthony Vaccaro, edited by Daisy Yuhas





6. Delayed Dreams: How Student Loan Debt Shapes Family Formation and Homeownership Among Liberal Arts Graduates 

Osasohan Agbonlahor

https://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/article/10.11648/j.ijecs.20251005.12





7. Can We Get Through the Demographic Crunch? The Implications of the 2025 OECD Employment Report

With Matt Weidinger | Brent Orrell | Nicholas Eberstadt






8. Adolescent to parent violence: GPs need more support

Dr Wei-May Su

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/gp-opinion/adolescent-to-parent-violence-gps-need-more-suppor




9. New MDRC-Authored Publications Added to National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse


Sarah Wilder





11. Our Broken Fertility Culture

Abby M. McCloskey




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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Can the Family Be Saved? A Royal Perspective on Renewal and Resilience

Thursday • 6 November 2025 • 3:00 p.m. EST,Virtual





2. Marriage trends and challenges

 https://grokipedia.com/page/Marriage_trends_and_challenges





3. Family identity: how families see themselves and are seen by others


OR

“What the Family Studies” podcast highlights the Vanier Institute

Nathan Battams (Knowledge Mobilization Specialist) and Laurel Sakaluk (Director of Programs) recently appeared on the “What the Family Studies?” podcast to discuss their work, family trends in Canada, and the Vanier Institute of the Family’s new resource Families Count: Family Identity.

Listen to episode






4. Sunrise, Sunset

By Nick and Jen

https://thecouplespost.org/2025/10/27/sunrise-sunset/




5. Measures of Relationship Power Dynamics in Romantic Relationships

Eleanor J. Junkins, Jaime Derringer, Brian G. Ogolsky, Jennifer L. Hardesty, Yanna Weisberg





6. 

Reimagining Implementation Support: The Role of Funders and Intermediaries

🗓 Tuesday, November 4, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

(View in your own time zone)







7. Stronger Marriage Webinar: Dr. Jason Whiting -  Nov 6, 2025 06:00 PM MST

Why We Connect and Why We Clash: Five Science-Based Keys to Healthy Relationships
https://usu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__KtrsT03SWKtKnJcBSLx8Q#/registration






8. Who Is at Risk of Losing Snap Benefits Due to the Shutdown?

By Angela Rachidi, AEI

https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/who-is-at-risk-of-losing-snap-benefits-due-to-the-shutdown/




9. Cultural context and family support across 29 nations: evidence from the ISSP 2017 social networks and social resources module

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207659.2025.2575537#abstract



10. Child welfare system involvement may improve diagnosis of developmental delays

Aaron Wagner, PSU




11. Despite Costly Programs and an Intensified Family Values Campaign, Russian Women Aren’t Having More Children

By Anastasia Tenisheva





12. The Institutions of Tomorrow

Anne Snyder

Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Robert Booth, UK technology editor





2. Boys Need Stories, Too
|
By Elizabeth Grace Matthew







3. DC government can do a lot to make families stronger

Delano Squires, opinion contributor


Harry Benson

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/fewer-than-half-of-uk-adults-are-married/




5. The American Dream Lecture Series: Anastasia Berg on Children and the Goodness of Human Life (replay)

With Timothy P. Carney | Christopher J. Scalia

https://www.aei.org/events/the-american-dream-lecture-series-anastasia-berg-on-children-and-the-goodness-of-human-life/




6. Dyadic Relationship and Coparenting Quality During the Transition to Parenthood for Couples With Childhood Maltreatment History
Laura N Martin 1,✉, Keith D Renshaw 1, Timothy W Curby 1, Mark E Feinberg 2

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12516108/




7. Five Tips for Nurturing Your Children’s Values

By Eugene C. Roehlkepartain






8. Senate passes Cutrona’s ‘success sequence’ legislation





9. Getting divorced? Chances are you'll marry again, Pew says

By Cara Tabachnick

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/divorced-marry-again-pew-says/




10. Strengthening military and veteran couple relationships: A rapid view of the effectiveness of relationship education for military couples (Abstract)

Jody Hughes, Luke B. Gahan, Jessica Smart, Lakshmi Neelakantan

Key points

  • Military and veteran couples face unique relationship challenges due to factors like relocations, deployments, and transitions out of service.
  • Couple Relationship Education (CRE) programmes can improve relationship satisfaction, communication, and stability for military and veteran couples.
  • Studies show small to moderate positive effects from CRE, especially for couples with higher initial risk or distress.
  • Flexible CRE delivery formats, such as online or hybrid models, are valued and effective for military couples.
  • More research and local adaptation of CRE programmes are needed outside the USA to ensure relevance and effectiveness.

























































Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Green Flags and Red Flags: What Women and Men Really Want in a Relationship

The Marriage Foundation




2. Love on the Move: How Couples Handle the Stress of Relocation

Hanieh Naeimi and Emily A. Impett

https://spsp.org/news/character-and-context-blog/naeimi-impett-love-on-the-move-how-couples-handle-the-stress-of-relocation




3. More young adults are living with their parents than previous generations did

Rohan Shah, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi; Institute for Humane Studies





4. 2026 NARME Summit Call for Proposals

The National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education (NARME)





5. Effectiveness of digital interventions on relationship satisfaction among couples: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lívia Kernová, Júlia Halamová & Denis Deriglazov

https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-025-03444-y




6. Wisdom Conversations VIII: The Family — Strengthening and Healing the Fabric of Our Nation

https://www.cornerstone.edu/wisdom-conversations-viii-the-family-strengthening-and-healing-the-fabric-of-our-nation/




7. “Be careful, it's dangerous out there”: Threat beliefs, anxiety, and mindfulness in overprotective parenting






9. Dyadic Coping and Communication as Predictors of 10-Year Relationship Satisfaction Subgroup Trajectories in Stable Romantic Couples

by Michelle Roth 1,*,Fridtjof W. Nussbeck 2,Selina A. Landolt 1,Mirjam Senn 1,Thomas N. Bradbury 3,Katharina Weitkamp 1 andGuy Bodenmann 1



OR

Reliability and Validation of U.S. Army-Oriented Brief Work-to-Family and Family-to-Work Conflict Scales: An Email Sample of 262 Army Career Officers

by Walter R. Schumm 1,*,Glen Bloomstrom 2,†,Vance P. Theodore 3,† andRoudi Nazarinia Roy 
















11. The Middle of the 20th Century was a Weird Time for Marriage

Jeremy Horpedahl




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Bill


Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. HMRF Project Map

Office of Family Assistance/Administration for Children & Families






2. Can the Right and Left Agree on What Families Need?





3. "Get Better Together"





4. CoupleTalk is LIVE on Zoom in Fall 2025!

https://coupletalk.com/coupletalk-live/




5. The importance of reading aloud to young children

Elaine Reese

https://childandfamilyblog.com/importance-of-reading-to-young-children/






6. Love Goals

By Chris and Michelle

https://thecouplespost.org/2025/09/29/set-love-goals-together-and-grow/




7. Love is a Battlefield: Understanding Conflict in Romantic Relationships


https://decidetocommit.com/love-is-a-battlefield-understanding-conflict-in-romantic-relationships/




8. Mean Age of Mother at First Birth, 2023

BGSU,  National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR)






9. Utah sees significant shifts in marriage, fertility trends





10. Marriage linked to better health, happiness | 

University of Michigan News





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A few Candidates for IFS Friday Five

https://thecatholicassociation.org/radio/ep-334-brad-wilcox-on-new-gen-z-poll-emily-zanotti-talks-cooking-and-kevin/

[PDF] Moving Beyond Moynihan: A New Blueprint to Revive Marriage and Rebuild the Black Family
D Squires
… , education, culture, and industry must be at the forefront of any effort to revive
marriage and breathe new life into the black family. Young people in far too many
neighborhoods today have no reason to believe that marriage … with a …

[PDF] Building Evidence to Strengthen Families: Charting a Research Agenda
M Kearney, A Barson - 2025
… has allocated over $1.2 billion through a Healthy Marriage and Relationship
Education initiative to community organizations providing relationship education
services for lower-income couples and individuals. Relationship education is a type


Engaging Fathers in Home-Based Parenting Education: Home Visitor Attitudes and Strategies

by Heidi E. Stolz * and Melissa Rector LaGraff

https://www.mdpi.com/3042-6693/1/1/3?utm_source=chatgpt.com



The State of American Men 2025
https://www.equimundo.org/resources/state-of-american-men-2025/


ACF Vision, Mission, Values, Priorities, & Guiding Principles
Andrew Gradison, Acting Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families


South Korea’s baby bust threatens its demographic future



I'll be back in mid-October... after we https://bikeswitzerland.com/lite-tour/

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Bill




Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. What Does an Emotionally Regulated Adult Look Like?








2. Family as the Foundation of Republican Democracy

By Robert P. George

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/family-as-the-foundation-of-republican-democracy/




3. When AI Feels Human: The Promise and Peril of Digital Empathy

With John Bailey






4. 'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce







5. Finding Solace in Grief: Holding Close, Letting Go, and Healing Together

Lexi DeHart


OR

The Slow Burn of Resentment: Understanding Its Roots in Romantic Relationships

By Sara Rozalowski






6. [PDF] Religious Contributions to the Family

WC Duncan, D Edmunds - 2025
… If we control for basic socioeconomic background and a woman’s educational
career trajectory, the typical marriage of a woman with a religious upbringing is
about 10% less likely to end in divorce within the first 15 years of marriage than the …





7. Present But Absent: The Truth About Modern Fatherhood

The Dr. Chris Harper Show








8. One-Third of Teens Experience Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours

 Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)

One-third of teens experience suicidal thoughts and behaviours







9. Rebuilding the domestic church: Why housing affordability is a pro-family cause

Jason Adkins

https://www.osvnews.com/rebuilding-the-domestic-church-why-housing-affordability-is-a-pro-family-cause/




10. 'Mankeeping' Is Exhausting Women. How Do We Teach Our Sons to Do Better?

 Dana Dickey

https://www.purewow.com/family/mankeeping-proof-teen-boys





11. The rise of online dating and heterogamous marriages

Yujung Hwang, Fangzhu Yang,  Áureo de Paula

Another IFS https://ifs.org.uk/publications/rise-online-dating-and-heterogamous-marriages



12. Late marriage the new norm in South Korea






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Bill