Candidates for Friday Five

1. Empty home syndrome
Joanna Roughton

http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/empty-home-syndrome/19006





2. Exploring Social Support Networks among Low-income Fathers
What types of social support networks do low-income fathers in responsible fatherhood programs have? Explore this brief 

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/the-role-of-social-networks-among-low-income-fathers-findings-from-the-pact-evaluation?





3. Healthy Children e-magazine

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/tips-tools/e-magazine/Pages/default.aspx







4. Pick one or more from www.healthymarriageandfamilies.org.

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Foundational skills such as communication, conflict resolution, and self-control are essential at home, on the job, and at school. Learning them can assist participants in strengthening their families and achieving economic self-sufficiency. Some ideas on helping participants to develop these skills include:
  ·  Print our Tips for Healthy and Effective Communication and Tips for Healthy Conflict Management handouts and make them available in your office and waiting area.
  ·  Visit our Virtual Training Center to learn how to integrate communication and conflict resolution education into your services.
  ·  Learn how states and counties have successfully integrated healthy marriage and relationship education into their safety-net programs in order to promote economic self-sufficiency.







5. Today, America’s Promise Alliance released “Barriers to Wellness: Voices and Views from Young People in Five Cities,” a study designed to tap into young people’s perspectives by engaging them not only as partners, but as leaders in community health research. 

http://www.gradnation.org/report/barriers-wellness?





6. A Sidekick for Self-Actualization: How Our Partners Make Us Great

http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2016/11/14/a-sidekick-for-self-actualization-how-our-partners-make-us-g.html





7.How Data-Driven Justice is Changing Lives and Saving Resources

http://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/data-driven-justice-changing-lives-saving-resources/





8. Light Research Hasn't Slowed Pre-K Expansion


HAYLEY GLATTER
 

​http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/light-research-hasnt-slowed-pre-k-expansion/505553/​




9. Innovation Network, 2016 State of Evaluation in the Nonprofit Sector (October 2016)

http://www.innonet.org/media/2016-State_of_Evaluation.pdf





10. We know student debt is delaying marriage — but why?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/we-know-student-debt-is-delaying-marriage-but-why-2016-11-16



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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Effects of the Positive Action Program on Indicators of Positive Youth Development Among Urban Youth

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888691.2015.1039123




2.Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review

http://tppevidencereview.aspe.hhs.gov/document.aspx?rid=3&sid=281&mid=1





3. The PREP Approach to Couple Therapy Training (first opportunity Mar 1-3, 2017)

https://www.preptoolbox.com/ThePREPApproach/





4. Families and households in the UK: 2016

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/bulletins/familiesandhouseholds/2016#main-points





5. Improving Opportunities for Children: Advice for the New Administration

http://www.urban.org/events/improving-opportunities-children-advice-new-administration




6. Ideology, attitudes on marriage, and economic insecurity

Angela Rachidi @AngelaRachidi





7. His candidate won. Hers lost. Will the marriage survive?



 Andrew Kragie



http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/His-candidate-won-Hers-lost-Will-the-marriage-10605119.php





8. On Campus, Salvaging Love from the Ruins

ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441773/princeton-university-love-fidelity-network-conference-gathers-300-students




9. 

On money and your honey: Rules for homefront harmony

​ Michelle Singletary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/get-there/rules-for-homefront-harmony/2016/11/04/f952ffea-a081-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html




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How unemployment can affect marriage


Danielle Braff, Chicago Tribune

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/features/weekend/4151573-how-unemployment-can-affect-marriage




11. Symposium explores the role of sleep in health and well-being
Kristie Auman-Bauer

http://news.psu.edu/story/436536/2016/11/09/research/symposium-explores-role-sleep-health-and-well-being




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Candidates for Friday Five

1. http://www.narme.org/conferences/7th-annual-narme-summit/call-for-presenters/



2. Is adolescence over? (Aeon)

Paula S. Fass

https://aeon.co/essays/adolescence-is-no-longer-a-bridge-between-childhood-and-adult-life




3. CREATING PARTNERSHIPS: LEARNING NEW WAYS TO CONNECT

 VIVIAN TSENG, JOHN EASTON AND LAUREN SUPPLEE 


http://www.knaer-recrae.ca/blog-news-events/creating-partnerships-learning-new-ways-to-connect






4. Communities for Children Facilitating Partners Evidence-based programme profiles

https://apps.aifs.gov.au/cfca/guidebook/





5. Study: Fatherless Homes Contributed to 60% Drop in African Americans in MLB
 
Barbara Hollingsworth 

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/study-fatherless-homes-contributed-60-decline-african-americans?







6. HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Evidence Review TPPEvidenceReview.aspe.hhs.gov Call for Studies

http://tppevidencereview.aspe.hhs.gov/pdfs/2016_Call_for_Studies.pdf






7. University of Maryland's Department of Family Science creates guide to the U.S. presidential election

Educational, nonpartisan guide helps identify candidates' positions on key family issues

In an effort to present an objective, nonpartisan view of where the major U.S. presidential candidates stand on important family-relevant issues, family policy doctoral students in the Department of Family Science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health have created a great tool to help voters make an informed choice in this year's election.

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8. 36th Annual Oklahoma Council on Family Relations Conference

 “The Business of Building Healthy Families”

April 7, 2017 8:00 am

University of Central Oklahoma – Nigh University Center

Please click here to submit a proposal. All proposals are due November 11, 2016.

http://ok.ncfr.org/annual-conference/






9. Labour of love or love vs labour


https://www.relate.org.uk/policy-campaigns/publications/labour-love-or-love-vs-labour





10. Economists used 2 questions to accurately predict divorce

Erin Brodwin

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/economists-used-2-questions-to-accurately-predict-divorce-a7381496.html





11. Divorce Is Destroying Retirement

 bsteverman

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/divorce-is-destroying-retirement




12. Family Tip of the Month

Naming Emotions l October/November 2016


http://family-institute.org/about-us/tip-of-the-month/family-tip-of-the-month




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Seeds of Change

Change is hard to ignore this time of year in Minnesota. The leaves on trees change from multiple shades of green to burnt orange, deep red, and mustard yellow. Sunlight shines on these newly colored leaves and exposes the dark, capillary shaped branches that were hidden under a green canopy. Crisp air and darkening skies open and close the day. For some, the changes that are part of fall are exciting and refreshing. For others they signal the coming of winter and cold, long, dark days.


Like nature, change in our relationships is inevitable. Our response to change in our relationships likely varies from excitement and newness to anxiety or heaviness.
 
The same way we can't make the leaves or the temperature change, we can't make our partners change. Sometimes we can't change our situations, but we can work on changing ourselves. Often, changing ourselves starts with humility. A wise man once said, "Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment."
 
Actions start as thoughts. Relationship author and speaker, Mitch Temple, writes "Thoughts and attitudes are like the engine of a train and our emotions and behaviors are like the caboose." How is your thought management? Are you too focused on what seems to be missing or lacking? Have you become critical or negative? How has your thinking about your spouse changed? How does it need to be changed? What if today you chose to be more thankful and positive?
 
Horticulturists say that fall is a great time to plant certain seeds. Fall planting results in earlier spring blooms, there is more time to plant in the fall and weeds are easier to control. Why not plant some seed of change in your relationship this fall. Here are some seeds you can "plant" today:
  • Greet your partner with a smile
  • Offer a word of encouragement or affirmation
  • Choose to give your partner the "benefit of the doubt"
  • Touch your partner
  • Confess
  • Pray for your partner
  • Forgive
  • Ask your partner about his/her day
  • Journal about your relationship
Come spring you may find blossoms of new communication patterns and habits. You may find blossoms of new understanding and perspectives on your relationship. You may find a new depth of love blossoming for yourself, your partner, and your relationship.
 
Don't underestimate the power of changing a little thing in how you interact with your partner. Whether or not it changes them, it might change you!
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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Building Strong Parenting Partnerships

Brian Higginbotham

https://library.healthymarriageandfamilies.org/cwig/ws/library/docs/MARRIAGE/Blob/85046.pdf?w=NATIVE%28%27TITLE+ph+is+%27%27Building+Strong+Parenting+Partnerships.%27%27%27%29&upp=0&rpp=25&order=native%28%27year%2FDescend%27%29&r=1&m=1




2. How to cope with a spouse who travels for work

Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/sc-traveling-spouse-family-1018-20161014-story.html




3. How Are States Using Welfare Funding? Often, Not to Help People Work.

J.B. WOGAN

http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-welfare-work-state-spending.html





4. Transracial Adoption

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/adoption/adopt-parenting/foster/transracial/






5. Ensuring Quality and Accessible Care for Children with Disabilities and Complex Health and Educational Needs: Proceedings of a Workshop

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23598/ensuring-quality-and-accessible-care-for-children-with-disabilities-and-complex-health-and-educational-needs?






6. Project In Sight: The Joys and Challenges of Reintegration after Deployment

https://learn.extension.org/events/2719






7. New book reveals what Victorian ladies were told about sex

 VALERIE SIEBERT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3865458/A-drunken-roll-hay-produce-idiot-children-sex-standing-kill-dinner-hanky-panky-trigger-stroke-new-book-reveals-Victorian-ladies-told-sex.html

OR

 http://www.countryliving.com/life/g3822/weird-victorian-marriage-advice/





8. BYU Professor Talks About the Importance of Marriage Education

https://fhssbyu.com/2016/10/21/byu-professor-talks-about-the-importance-of-marriage-education/




9. Trouble in the land of early childhood education?

https://www.brookings.edu/events/trouble-in-the-land-of-early-childhood-education/





10. For 100 years, Lexington kept a ‘Colored Marriage Registry.’ Now that history is online

LINDA BLACKFORD

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article108934727.html?




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Friendly reminder: Start planning NOW for a National Marriage Week Celebration!
Hi friends!

It's been a while since we've been in touch and now is the time to make plans, form a committee, or ask your pastor to put National Marriage Week USA (Feb. 7-14) on the calendar!  

You can make an impact by finding an easy-to-use marriage video course and offer it in your home, club, community center, or local library.  You can make a difference!
Our goal? To launch a marriage class or special celebration during Feb. 7-14 in EVERY TOWN!
In the last 2 years, National Marriage Week USA was featured many times on national television, and you can get your own media coverage in local newspapers and radio when you create a NMW celebration or marriage event in your town!
You can download our City Event Kit for FREE to get ideas for what you can do in your town, or church, and how to get great publicity for your efforts.
And please POST for free any marriage class ALL YEAR LONG that you are already hosting-- on the only national online marriage calendar that exists at http://www.nmwusa-calendar.org/
Why?  Because marriage is the best anti-poverty program we have.  There is nothing that helps kids more than being raised by both their mother and father---children do better in school, have less trouble with the law, less teen pregnancy, less addictions, and more financial stability.  So let's help people learn how to marry well and maintain a good one!
Let's work together. . .Let's strengthen marriage!
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Fwd: [New post] Be present with your partner, truly engage and give them your undivided attention

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Give your partner not only your time, but your focus, your attention and your soul. Truly engage. Treat them as you would your most valuable customer.

Learning to appreciate that incremental, small changes can make a difference, join me and take these small steps to improving your life with your partner.

    Step 36: Be present, truly engage and give your partner your undivided attention.
    Try this: Sit face to face, look into their eyes, hold hands and connect. Don’t Interrupt. Listen to what your partner is saying with a goal to understand. Ask questions and avoid statements or opinions. Focus your attention and your soul. Truly engage.
    Do whatever it takes to clear your head of any external influence so that when you are with them you are fully focused and available to them only.

Start today and make changes that will last a lifetime.

Tune in for step 37, next week...

Marriage and Relationship Education is a learning opportunity, much like you would do in any other important life event. Check out the new video for couples on YouTube:

MAREAA aims to support educators in their ongoing professional development through networking, in service training opportunities, conferences, sharing of resources plus much more. MAREAA has active members in most states and territories, see our state list for more details.

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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Research suggests that half of US parents will take pay cuts for better family benefits at work

Jenny Anderson

http://qz.com/812872/survey-49-of-new-us-parents-will-leave-their-job-to-work-at-a-company-with-less-pay-but-more-family-friendly-benefits/?






2. Like father, like son? Family instability across generations

https://www.brookings.edu/events/like-father-like-son-family-instability-across-generations/




3. Building bridges: How to share research about children and youth with policymakers

http://www.childtrends.org/publications/building-bridges-share-research-children-youth-policymakers/





4. Lessons Learned from the Program Design & Implementation of Two Healthy Marriage Programs

What have we learned about the design and implementation for two healthy marriage programs that are part of the Parents and Children Together evaluation? Explore data on enrollment, initial participation, retention and the amount of services couples received.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/parents-and-children-together-design-implementation-two-healthy-marriage-programs?







5. The Mental Health Advantage of Immigrant-Background Youth: The Role of Family Factors

Carina Mood, Jan O. Jonsson, Sara Brolin Låftman

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12340/full






6. Survey: American families increasingly concerned about jobs, cost of raising children

 @loisco

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865665147/Survey-American-families-increasingly-concerned-about-jobs-cost-of-raising-children.html





7. Some thoughts on marriage from young Chinese

Marcus Roberts

http://www.mercatornet.com/demography/view/some-thoughts-on-marriage-from-young-chinese/18789





8. Marriage Checkup

 Lt Col Robert Vanecek

http://www.79mdw.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/973154/marriage-checkup





9. Effectiveness of Healthy Relationship Interventions on Teen Pregnancy Rates

http://www.dibbleinstitute.org/NEWDOCS/LN-EBP/Dibble-Love-Notes-Issue-Brief-10-13-16-FINAL.pdf




10. The election is destroying friendships, but marriages are likely to survive

TERESA WELSH

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article108999257.html?



11. How to Help Military and Veteran Families

https://www.mfri.purdue.edu/publications/how-to-help.aspx




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