Candidates for Friday Five

1. Diet After Divorce: Men vs. Women

ANN LUKITS





2. Responding to Intimate Violence in Relationship Programs (RIViR), 2014-2018





3. Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)

June 1–3, 2016  |  






4. What Teens Really Need from Parents

By Jill Suttie

In a Q&A, neuroscientist Ron Dahl explains how parents can help older teens avoid depression and anxiety as they become more independent.  Read More >






5. Why Grit Can’t Be Taught Like Math

 Paul Tough





6. Key Findings for Policy Makers











8. For First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds














10. Resource - Partners to Parents





Thanks Anna!  I appreciate the way you transformed my input on the website.  All the best.

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Richard V. Reeves

Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill were awarded the 2016 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Richard Reeves highlights some of their recent bipartisan work together.









2. Do you wish you were a 1970’s mum?

Shannon Roberts







3. 
Talking to Teens about Purpose

By Jill Suttie
A Q&A with Kendall Bronk about instilling purpose in teens--and the emerging research showing why it's so important.  Read More >






4. Special Report: Marriage and millennials

Raquel Hellman









5. Prevalence and Experiences: Intimate Partner Violence Prevalence and Experiences Among Healthy Relationship Program Target Populations


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Current Approaches: Current Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Healthy Relationship Programs







6. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 2016 Commencement Address May 14th, 2016 
Sheryl Sandberg






7. 

Relationship satisfaction depends on the mating pool, study finds












9. Rural, low-income moms rely on nature to promote family health

 Stephanie Henry





10. Kids have advice for parents who divorce 

 Peter Herbst | For The Jersey Journal



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Workshop on Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention in Communities to Promote Mental and Behavioral Health in Children, Youth, and Families

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Kristin Anderson Moore, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized social psychologist with more than 40 years of experience studying and improving child and family well-being.  Dr. Moore has published several books, including, What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development (2005) and Well-being: Positive Development across the Life Course (2003), and contributed prolifically to academic journals for decades. 

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Candidates for Friday Five

1.Science supports the power of marriage
Mona Charen





2. 2016 Theme: Families, healthy lives and sustainable future





3. Don’t Believe the Hype About Grit, Pleads the Scientist Behind the Concept
 






4. Evidence based programs  with Dr. Kristen Anderson Moore

May 18, 2016

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET)






5. HDFS faculty member moderates panel on economics of preventive interventions






6. Marriage and Family Research Institute Offers Free Relationship Education






7. Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator

 RICHARD FRY AND RAKESH KOCHHAR






8. Does marriage alone improve cancer survival? Taking a closer look - 






9. Marriage Matters: Mythbusters — soul mate edition

James and Audora Burg







10. First comes graduation, then comes marriage

By Brooke Morrissy






11. Race, Romance and Nonresident Father Involvement Resilience: Differences by types of involvement

 March 2016 Ronald Mincy Columbia University Hillard Pouncy Afshin Zilanawala





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Candidates for Friday Five

1. WHEN MARRIAGE WAS PART OF THE COLLEGE CURRICULUM
ERIN BLAKEMORE  






2. An Early Look at Families and Local Programs in the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation-Strong Start











4. Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)
June 1–3, 2016  
The online registration deadline is Friday, May 13, 2016.






5. Communities, relationships influence marriage view for African-American young adults

 Bert Gambini 






Mar 2016 | Justin Dyer, Jay Fagan, Rebecca Kaufman, Jessica Pearson, Natasha Cabrera

The Fatherhood Research and Practice Network Coparenting Relationship Scale is designed to assess fathers' coparenting relationships with the mother of their non-residential children. The measure was validated with a sample of fathers very similar to those served in U.S. responsible fatherhood programs. Click here to view the measure. A scoring guide can be found here. Detailed psychometric findings are available upon request (jfagan@temple.edu).







7. Family Strengthening Scholars





8. MEDIAN AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE, 2014





9. Spending time together important for strong families

 Elizabeth Buchanan 






10. 10 Things Every Mom Deserves To Hear:






Thanks Anna.  Happy mothers day.

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Ethics & Religion

 

May 5, 2016

Column #1,820

Marriage Matters – To Everyone

By Mike McManus

 

            Marriage is declining in America.  There were only 2,077,000 marriages in 2015 – fewer than the 2,159,000 in 1970 when the population was only 203 million.  If the same percentage were getting married today, there would have been 1.3 million more marriages last year!   

 

            Sadly, a large minority of the population – 44% - say that marriage has become obsolete.  They are wrong.  Marriage has never been more important to everyone.

 

Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a Professor at the University of Virginia, spoke about the importance of God’s first institution to 100 marriage leaders at the Falls Church Anglican congregation recently. 

 

He described marriage in America as “separate and unequal.” The college educated “are more likely to enjoy high-quality, stable marriages” than the less educated. For example, the divorce rate of the college educated is low and falling, dropping from 15% in the 1970s to only 11% in the 1990s.  However, the divorce rate is 36% for both high school dropouts and those who have had some college.

 

Only 6% of recent births to college graduates were to unwed parents, while it was 54% for high school dropouts and 44% for those with some college. “This class divide imperils the well-being of lower-income children who are increasingly likely to grow up outside of a married home,” Wilcox asserted.

 

“There is strong evidence that family change preceded growing economic inequality.  Specifically, the rise of non-marital childbearing and divorce date back to the 1960s, well before economic inequality began growing in the 1970s…All of the increases in child poverty over the last 30-40 years can be explained by changes in family structure.”

 

Two-fifths of children will live in a cohabiting household.  He said those homes are “less stable, have less trust, less sexual fidelity, more violence, and are five times more likely to break up than homes with intact, married parents.”

 

By contrast, married couples “who share a union deepened by time together, a common faith and acts of service and are committed to marriage `till death us do part’ – are more likely to flourish and be faithful to one another. Couples who set aside time to pray together, enjoy markedly high quality marriages,” Wilcox asserted.

 

George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate who is married to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, states that “Men settle down when they get married.  If they fail to marry, they fail to settle down.”  Many men are transformed by marriage in ways that make them significantly more successful.  Married men earn about $16,000 more per year than single men of the same age!

 

However, why did a marriage divide emerge in the first place?  William Julius Wilson argues that the shift away from an industrial economy towards an information economy has rendered the less educated men less “marriageable.”  That is partially correct.

 

However, Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at Brookings Institution, says this “purely economic theory falls short as an explanation of the dramatic transformation of family life in the U.S. in recent decades.”  There was no great uptick in family instability during the Great Depression when economic dislocation and devastation were much more severe.

 

Wilcox quotes scholarly studies that between 20% - 40% of the growth in family income inequality “is associated with the rise of divorce and of nonmarital childbearing which leaves many children in homes with only one potential income earner.”

 

He also notes that the growing marriage divide is “fueling an historically unusual type of gender inequality in low-income communities.” He cites a study by MIT economist David Autor that poor boys from fatherless homes in Florida are much more likely to be absent from school than are poor girls from homes without fathers. “The fallout of fatherlessness has also hit poor boys harder than poor girls when it comes to school failure, violence and incarceration.”

 

Another factor fueling the low marriage rate in lower income areas is that single mothers have found it easier to get welfare than married families.

 

Finally, there is a surprising element - the decline of weekly church attendance by those without a college degree has been much greater than among the better educated. 

 

Families who pray together, stay together – and those who don’t, don’t.

 

“Marriage is the gold standard for flourishing financially, socially and emotionally – especially for men,” asserts Wilcox. 

 

Curiously, however, very few sermons are preached on the importance of marriage.

 

“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord,” asserts Proverbs 18:22.

 

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