Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Remote Work Can Be Good for Families, Cities, and Even the Planet

By Robert VerBruggen






2. Most Hispanic Children in Families With Low Incomes Live in Unaffordable Housing





3. How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding

Susan Dominus

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/magazine/happiness-research-studies-relationships.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap&smid=url-share&unlocked_article_code=1.G08.ETLQ.sPvufKJxReIy




4. The Mental Health Crisis in Children & Teens: What Families, Therapists & Communities Can Do.


 moderator, Dr. Adrian Blow






5. Teaching Kids How to Deal With Conflict

by Juliann Garey
https://childmind.org/article/teaching-kids-how-to-deal-with-conflict/





6. Advancing Child and Youth Health Care System Transformation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief


NAS Forum for Children's Well-Being 

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29082/advancing-child-and-youth-health-care-system-transformation-proceedings-of




7. China simplifies marriage registrations, prompting surge in cross-regional couples tying the knot

By Shen Sheng

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1333785.shtml




8. Postdoctoral Fellow AU to support the work of the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative (AHMREI)

https://www.auemployment.com/postings/51112





Candidates for IFS Friday Five




2. Adolescence – lessons for pastoral educators … and parents?

Noel Purdy



3.  Examining conceptualizations underlying evidence-based couples therapies: Associations of frequency and acceptance of partner behaviours and attachment with relationship functioning

 Henk Jan Conradi | Jan H. Kamphuis





4.  Young Adult Health and Mental Health at Age 22: Evidence from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study

 Tia M. Dickerson, Hye-Min Jung, and Jane Waldfogel













7. Parents’ and teens’ feelings and blind spots: Are they really seeing eye-to-eye?

 Reout Arbel and Shir Shay



OR

5 Powerful Ways to Boost Teen Mental Health






8. Measuring the Good Life

Brendan Case, Katelyn N. G. Long, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Byron R. Johnson

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/global-flourishing-study-good-life/





9. Significant Benefits of Positive Parenting Support Programs






10. Want More Kids? Make Cheaper Minivans






11. A family planning expert weighs in on the Trump administration's pronatalist policies

By Lauren Frayer






12. Impact of marriage on diagnosis and survival in patients with urological cancers


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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Why Is Social Connection So Hard for Young Adults?

 Melissa De Witte

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_is_social_connection_so_hard_for_young_adults





2.  A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation

 Emily T. Beauparlant | Xiangjing Kong | Laura V. Machia







3.  The Role of Interparental Conflict in Divergent Perceptions of Parenting

Carlie J. Sloan1,2 | Stephanie T. Lanza3 | Emily J. Forrester4 | Mark E. Feinberg1,5 | Gregory M. Fosco


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jomf.13108




4. An Initial Examination of Couple Therapy for PTSD Outcomes Among Black/African American Adults: Findings from an Uncontrolled Trial with Military Dyads

SJ Fredman, AA Gamaldo, AIC Jenkins, Y Le, JA Mogle… - Behavioral Sciences, 2025





5. Relationship quality

JB Kanter, S Sprecher, T Orbuch - Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life …, 2025






6. The Dyadic Influence of Relationship Hope on Family Functioning

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12004348/




7.  Effectiveness of relationship education among high school youth: the role of context

 Esra Şahin, Joshua J. Turner, J. Scott Crapo, Kay Bradford, & Brian Higginbotham







8.  A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety

 Claudia Dias Martins1 | Rodrigo C. Vergara2,3 | Bassam Khoury1 1







9.  MARITAL ATTITUDE AS A MEDIATOR IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARITAL SPIRITUALITY AND MARITAL COMMITMENT 

Aisya Vania Zafri, Rumaya Juhari, Zainal Madon, Zarinah Arshat and Muslihah Hasbullah@Abdullah








10. Japan’s population drops to record low as government looks to tackle birth rate issue







11. Podcast #281: Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’




12. Proposed Model State Legislation and Policy Initiative for Strengthening Marriages and Families and Reducing Divorce to Decrease Poverty and Increase Health and Human Flourishing




Thanks.
Bill




Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. 

A Review of “Get Married” by: Brad Wilcox


Julie Abbinante

https://decidetocommit.com/a-review-of-get-married-by-brad-wilcox/



2. We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships

August I C Jenkins 1,2, TeKisha M Rice 3, Shardé McNeil Smith 1, Allen W Barton 1, Steven R H Beach 4

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11961784/



3.  Adolescents and Technology - The True Impact of Tech

PA Schaefer

https://red.mnstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2053&context=thesis




4. Life Course Insights into Social Relationship Quality: A Cross-National Analysis of 22 Countries

Renae Wilkinson, Koichiro Shiba, Cristina Gibson, Emeka Okafor, Ying Chen, Matt Bradshaw, Byron R. Johnson, i Tyler J. VanderWeele

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/n2pxk_v1





5. Teaching Kids the Art of Conflict Resolution: Managing Disputes at Any Age

https://relationshipsca.org/teaching-kids-conflict-resolution/




6.  NARME 2025

Nat'l Alli. for Relationship & Marriage Education 


https://www.narme.org/summit-2025





7. ‘Marriage and having children are like springs in the ground’ — An Interview with Catherine Pakaluk

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/interview/family-child-protection-sexual-ideologies-catherine-pakaluk/



8. Mental and Behavioral Health Disorders Are Increasing in U.S.; Effective Preventive Interventions Should Be Expanded, Report Says

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/04/mental-and-behavioral-health-disorders-are-increasing-in-u-s-effective-preventive-interventions-should-be-expanded-report-says






9. Utah slides to No. 10 for fertility in U.S.

Lois M. Collins

https://www.deseret.com/family/2025/04/07/utah-drop-fertility-rate-population-birth-immigration/




10. "Matrimonial consent in today’s secularized society”

Keynote speech by Professor Gambino at the 54th ASCAI National Congress in Pompei

https://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/news/2024/consenso-matrimoniale-nell-attuale-societa-secolarizzata.html

Footnote 20 (of 50) of the attached 15-page speech/article refers to  
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-rise-of-marriage-deserts-and-what-we-can-do-about-them



Speaking of the Vatican, we'll be on a pilgrimage to Assisi, Norcia, and Rome from 4/12-24 

Bill
Bill Coffin

301-625-7737 | 301-518-5657 | billcoffin68@gmail.com

billcoffin.org

Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Report Release Webinar: Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorder


April 9th at 11:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/44880_04-2025_report-release-webinar-blueprint-for-a-national-prevention-infrastructure-for-mental-emotional-and-behavioral-disorders





2. The pros and cons of ‘gentle parenting’

https://whyy.org/episodes/gentle-parenting-motherhood-fatherhood/

3. America’s Missing Men

Katherine Dee





5. Fathers’ consistent parenting nurtures bonds through teen years





7. “Children will Love Like You Do”: How Adolescents’ Relationships with Parents Predict the Quality of Best Friendships and Romantic Relations







8. PTSD can undermine healthy couple communication when people fear their emotions





9. Psychological science helps build digital educational media that capitalizes on how human brains learn

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/04-05/kids-digital-educational-media

OR

58% of teens do not get enough social and emotional support, study finds

Kirsten Weir

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/04-05/teen-social-emotional-support




10. Most & Least Stressed States (2025)

Adam McCann, WalletHub Financial Writer



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1.  Short Duration Relationship and Marriage Education (RME) during Covid-19: Outcomes and Future Directions

 Pamela B. Payne University of Nevada Reno, Naomi Brower Utah State University,  Melanie Jewkes Utah State University


https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=tcjournal




2. Paternal perinatal mental health support: fathers’ perspectives on barriers, facilitators, and preferences


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.13098




5. Divorce Rates in Australia at Lowest Level in 50 Years

Australian Institute of Family Studies





6. The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years

Brian G. Ogolsky, Kiersten Dobson, Matthew Rivas-Koehl, Ghada Kawas, Jennifer L. Hardesty

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pere.12590




7. Study: When Fewer Parents Are Married, Poverty And Violence Skyrocket

Anna Kaladish Reynolds




8. Why women are struggling with marriage

Timothy S. Goeglein







9. On this episode of Studio 2, we ask: How have gender roles in marriage changed over time? What’s worked and what hasn’t in your relationship?

Guests:

Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families and author of the forthcoming ‘For Better AND Worse: The Problematic Past and Challenging Future of Marriage’

Jo Piazza, Journalist and author of many books, including the forthcoming thriller,‘Everyone is Lying to You.’



https://whyy.org/episodes/modern-marriage-and-motherhood/




10. GOP Wants to Teach Students High School, Job, Marriage, and Kids Will Keep Them Out of Poverty



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1.  Identifying Informal Help‐Seeking Patterns in African American Couples 

Aimee Hubbard1 | Steven Harris2 | Chalandra M. Bryant2 | Rachel Rineman2 | Doneila McIntosh2


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jmft.70008



2. Treatment Considerations for Clinicians Working with Clients During the Transition to Parenthood

By Shannon Savell, M.A., University of Virginia






4. The Marriage Gap

Harry Benson, March 2025

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/the-marriage-gap-2/




5. Happy husband or wife really could be the key to a stress-free life

By StudyFinds Staff

•

Reviewed by Sophia Naughton

Research led by Tomiko Yoneda, University of California, Davis


https://studyfinds.org/lower-stress-as-you-age-happy-partner/




6. What science tells us about fatherhood, marriage and the struggles of young men

 Samuel Wilkinson

https://www.deseret.com/family/2025/03/12/fatherhood-marriage-masculinity-crisis-solutions/

or

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

By Brad Wilcox, Deseret News

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/how-state-policymakers-can-save-the-nuclear-family/




7. The Heart of Couples Counseling

By Melanie Padgett Powers





8. Maternal postpartum depression and children's emotional overeating: The mediating role of executive function

Samantha J. Iwinski a, Sehyun Ju a, Qiujie Gong b, Kelly K. Bost a

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471015325000054?via%3Dihub

or https://www.newsweek.com/postpartum-depression-lead-child-emotional-overeating-2047723



9. An Uninsurable and Unavailable Foster Care System: How Lawsuits, Regulations, Social Inflation, and Policy Failures Are Making the Most Vulnerable Children Uninsurable


Sid Madge


https://northernlifemagazine.co.uk/how-fathers-can-be-a-role-model-even-if-they-did-not-have-one-themselves/




11. Best age to get married, have a child, buy a home and retire? Here’s what Americans say

Jordan Lippert and Janell Fetterolf


Jaclyn DeJohn, CFP




If you picked McNeese to beat Clemson please take a bow!

Thanks
Bill


Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. An Evaluation of Cost-Saving Reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

By Kevin Corinth, American Enterprise Institute

https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/an-evaluation-of-cost-saving-reforms-of-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program/



2. Interdisciplinary Researchers Receive $4.71 Million Grant for Longitudinal Study on Parents’ Patience in Adversity

LORI FOGLEMAN, MEDIA & PUBLIC RELATIONS

https://bcdd.soe.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/interdisciplinary-researchers-receive-471-million-grant-longitudinal-study-0



3. Yes, parents, it reflects on you: Norms and Metanorms regulating teen daughters and parents

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Stefanie Mollborn, Christine Horne






5. The Single Most Important Parenting Strategy 

Becky Kennedy | TED






5.  American Worldview Inventory 2025 – Report 2 Americans Minimize the Role of God in Their Life

  Dr. George Barna, Director of Research, Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University   





6. The simple way dads can ensure a strong bond with their daughters

By StudyFinds Staff, Research led by John Day, University of Essex




OR

Marriage Care and Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity announces new partnership

RNRM Relationship Sessions

8. Parental Stress and Well-Being: A Meta-analysis


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10567-025-00515-9



9.  U.S. Fertility Is Declining Due to Delayed Marriage and Childbearing

 Jonathan Abbamonte, Heritage Foundation

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/BG3883_0.pdf



10. Marriage 101 professors reflect on course as it turns 25





11. Purdue expert: Overall divorce rates lowest in decades but ‘gray divorce’ soars

Tim Brouk, tbrouk@purdue.edu






12. MSU study pinpoints the impact of prenatal stress across 27 weeks of pregnancy

Shelly DeJong

Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Coming to Terms with Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: A Scoping Review

Lisa Norén
ORCID Icon,
Martin Bergström
ORCID Icon &
Lisa Wallander
ORCID Icon





2. Intellectual humility in close relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors

 Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno a,Jessica C. Reich b, Mark R. Leary c

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656625000303



3.  How Long-Term Couples Cope with Chronic Stressors and Adverse Life Course Events in Marriage: A Qualitative Study 

Christian Heim & Caroline Heim

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01926187.2025.2459688



4. Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood
Samantha A Murray‐Perdue 1,✉, Stephanie Rayburn 2, Lijuan Wang 3, E Mark Cummings 3, Julia M Braungart‐Rieker 2

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11830849/



5. Ready (or Not) For Love? Your Friends Likely Agree

Shelly DeJong

OR

Video series help youth build healthy relationships






6. Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession

Michael J. Rosenfeld

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192513X251322128




7. How parenthood may help keep your brain young

ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250226141927.htm



8. Divorce rates at lowest level in 50 years

Kate O'Connor, Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)






9. No sex until you are engaged, feminist author tells teens

Tom McArdle, The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/23/no-sex-until-you-are-engaged-feminist-author-tells-teens0/



10. Crossroads: American Family Life at the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity





11. Should we give 'gentle parenting' a time out?


https://theweek.com/culture-life/should-we-give-gentle-parenting-a-time-out



12. How the Trump Administration Can Support Healthy Marriage



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Timothy P. Carney | Christopher J. Scalia | Yuval Levin | Brad Wilcox | Scott Winship | Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter | Kevin Corinth | Howard Husock, American Enterprise Institute







2. Signs that Gen Z want marriage




3. Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps

 Emily Elena Dugdale and Hanisha Harjani

https://themarkup.org/investigations/2025/02/13/dating-app-tinder-hinge-cover-up



4. Family Matters: Why Our Choices Determine Our Economic Prosperity

Philip Pilkington
https://www.arcforum.com/research-papers/choices-family-matters



5. Should you be using AI in your dating life?

Chance Townsend

https://mashable.com/article/ai-for-dating



6. On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog: Examining the Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Online

Luke Hogg and Evan Swarztrauber

https://www.thefai.org/posts/on-the-internet-no-one-knows-you-re-a-dog



7.   A Credibility Revolution for Relationship Science: Where Can We Step Up Our Game? 

Samantha Joel | Paul W. Eastwick | Devinder Khera

https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/spc3.70042



8. New dads reveal conflict and guilt in the transition to parenthood

by Pauline Braniff, Deakin University


Sid Madge





10. Elon Musk Now Has 13 Children. A Conservative Pro-Family Scholar Says He’s Missing Something.