Coffin Corner

https://www.narme.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-3zaa9-zlxng-67tfc-39kct-khzas-gxl5j

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1.

Adult Education Facilitation Best Practices: How to be the Messenger that Matters

Miranda L. Egger & Lawrence Ramos

OR

Significant Benefits-to-Cost Ratio for Relationship Education

https://www.narme.org/research-roundup/what-is-the-best-way-to-measure-change-in-relationship-education-programs-6g6js-p3whh

2. Highlights from Local Evaluations at Responsible Fatherhood Programs from 2020 to 2025

Dina A. R. Israel, Irma Castañeda, Rachel Richman

https://www.mdrc.org/work/publications/highlights-local-evaluations-responsible-fatherhood-programs-2020-2025

3.The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release the 2025 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates and 1-year Supplemental Estimates on Oct. 29.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/dates-announced-for-2025-acs-1-year-estimates.html

4. Are married mums really happier?

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/are-married-mums-really-happier/

OR

A Review of “Reliable Love: The Psychology of Marriage and Commitment” By: Dr. Harry Benson

Adriana Jenkins

https://decidetocommit.com/a-review-of-reliable-love-the-psychology-of-marriage-and-commitment-by-dr-harry-benson/

5.

Who thrives, who struggles? Intersectional patterns of social-emotional health in adolescence

Alberto Amadori,
Stephen T. Russell

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022440526000646

OR

Maya Metser-Waldman a, Brian D. Doss a

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005789426000985

6. Self-Esteem as a Shared Resource Beyond Romantic Relationships: An Extension Into Friendships and Parental Relationships

Lisa B. Hoplock , Jessica J. Cameron , and Kelley J. Robinson

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02654075261498961

7. Abstaining from sex: An examination of adult outcomes of female purity pledgers using AddHealth data

Chancey Herbolsheimer

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/17455057261496379

8, The Second Big Bang Starts at the Kitchen Table

Seth Eisenberg

https://fatherhoodchannel.com/2026/10/26/the-second-big-bang-starts-at-the-kitchen-table/

9. Opinion: Hookup culture isn’t working. Young people are hungry for something better

Tim Rarick

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/10/24/hookup-culture-is-harming-young-people/

10. Why $100k at 25 is more powerful than an inheritance at 55

Rebecca Pike

https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/the-life-changing-power-of-a-100k-gift-at-25-20261023-p613g1

Thanks

Bill

https://ifstudies.org/about-us/bill-coffin

Bill Coffin

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

https://life-craft.org/does-marriage-just-get-harder/

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Does Marriage Just Get Harder?

John & Sofia Cuddeback

2. Our kids are more than their problems—let’s act like it

Kris Anderson Moore | TEDxFoggyBottom

3. Pooling risk to pay for long-term services and supports

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/pooling-risk-to-pay-for-long-term-services-and-supports/

4. What Scientists Miss When They Dismiss Popular Ideas About Relationships

Emily A. Impett

https://spsp.org/news/character-and-context-blog/impett-what-scientists-miss-when-they-dismiss-popular-ideas-about-relationships

5. Lean In or Lighten Up? In Defense of Good-Enough Marriages

By Alan J. Hawkins

https://www.narme.org/blog/quality-doesnt-happen-by-accident-lessons-from-building-online-on-demand-relationship-education-by-samuel-phelps-rfnls

OR

Can We Use AI to Assist with RE Curriculum Development? 10 Practical Considerations

https://www.narme.org/research-roundup/what-is-the-best-way-to-measure-change-in-relationship-education-programs-6g6js

6. ACF Announces Call for Recommendations on Domestic Violence Prevention and Support Programs and Services to Help Strengthen Families

https://peerta.acf.hhs.gov/content/acf-announces-call-recommendations-domestic-violence-prevention-and-support-programs-and

7. How Do You Raise Kids to Be Emotionally Mature?

Juli Fraga, Lindsay C. Gibson

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

8. Parental-couple well-being and relationship stability four years following childbirth: a mixed-methods study

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12978-026-02469-9

9. Temporary Assistance for Two-Parent Families in Texas: Reorienting TANF Toward Integral Human Development and Flourishing

Noah Torres, Hannah Bruck

https://www.texaspolicy.com/temporary-assistance-for-two-parent-families-in-texas-reorienting-tanf-toward-integral-human-development-and-flourishing/

10. Why can’t some men see a way forward?

Bruno Manno

https://aibm.org/commentary/why-cant-some-men-see-a-way-forward/

11. Reflections of the Nation’s Former Marriage Czar

https://extension.usu.edu/strongermarriage/webinars/webinarsyoutube/reflections_of_the_nations_former_marriage_czar

12. Fertility Needs Friendship

Lyman Stone

https://www.americanreformer.org/p/fertility-needs-friendship

FYI

They call us ‘contamination’ – and want us dismantled!

https://mailchi.mp/c4m/they-call-us-contamination-and-want-us-dismantled?e=a6b0e677f4

Thanks

Bill

https://ifstudies.org/blog/category/friday-five

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Re: Candidates for IFS Friday Five

https://www.aei.org/events/generation-uncoupled-a-book-event-with-daniel-a-cox/

Bill Coffin

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

https://marriageeveryday.org/about

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Marriage Every Day®

2. U.S. Census Bureau Hosts 2025 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates Prerelease Webinar

10/22

https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2026/2025-acs-1-year-prerelease.html

3. Generation Uncoupled

By Daniel A. Cox

https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/generation-uncoupled/

4. There’s a simple way to become a better listener. Most of us don’t do it.

Maggie Penman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/10/02/theres-simple-way-become-better-listener-most-us-dont-do-it/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzkxNTE4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkyOTAwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3OTE1MTg0MDAsImp0aSI6IjUwNzIxOGRmLTQ1MGEtNDM2YS04ZGY1LTY4Mzk4YzU0OWU0NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9saWZlc3R5bGUvMjAyNi8xMC8wMi90aGVyZXMtc2ltcGxlLXdheS1iZWNvbWUtYmV0dGVyLWxpc3RlbmVyLW1vc3QtdXMtZG9udC1kby1pdC8ifQ.rl_ksY6Us0dCIrg_T9NgE8Tu3yyaRy-AXlntViRgZbY

OR

The one thing strong couples do when they fight

Anna Borges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/10/09/one-thing-strong-couples-do-when-they-fight/

5. Genes And Family, Not Just Phones, May Drive The Teen Screen-Depression Link

Research led by Tong Gong and Yi Lu (Karolinska Institutet)

https://studyfinds.com/genes-and-family-not-just-phones-may-drive-the-teen-screen-depression-link/#google_vignette

6. Access for All through the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative

Francesca Adler-Baeder

https://www.narme.org/leader-and-program-profiles/blog-post-title-three-y3peb-4lwnz-nj8yx-brdn5-hss74

7. Why Commitment Still Matters in the Age of AI Companions

D. Scott Sibley Ph.D., LMFT, CFLE and Brooklynn Garcia

https://decidetocommit.com/why-commitment-still-matters-in-the-age-of-ai-companions/

8. Operationalizing deployment history: Three approaches to examining associations with military couples’ marital satisfaction

Julia Janeczko,Catherine Walker O’Neal & Mallory Lucier-Greer

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08995605.2026.2743422#abstract

9. Special Report from the CDC: A literature review and update of the evidence in the intimate partner violence prevention resource for action☆

Denise V. D’Angelo, Lane Welsh, Matthew J. Breiding, Jenny Dills, Candace Girod, Grace S. Liu, Marissa Goodson, Norah W. Friar, Haley Stolp

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437526001805

10.[PDF] From Courtship to Situationship: Understanding the Rise of Relationship Ambiguity in Young Adulthood

MKA Christensen, KR Malae - Sociology Compass, 2026

11. Is the Rise in Cohabitation Fueling a Marriage Slowdown?

Delano Squires

https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/the-rise-cohabitation-fueling-marriage-slowdown

12. Amoris Laetitia meeting, October 9: prelates discuss young people and the discovery of the vocation to marriage

https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=70915

Thanks

Bill

https://bio.site/billcoffin

Bill Coffin

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

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13618452/

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. The Couple Relationship Skills Inventory: Is There Added Benefit of Partner's Report?

Menglin Wei‐Wise 1,✉, Julianne McGill 2, Francesca Adler‐Baeder 2, Ted Futris 3

2. Loneliness Linked To Nearly 6 Fewer Years Free Of Depression, Anxiety

Research led by Lu Qi (Tulane University)

https://studyfinds.com/loneliness-fewer-years-free-depression-anxiety/

3. CONNECTING, COLLABORATING, AND CONTRIBUTING: SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONAL SKILLS FOR THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD

Natalie Saragosa-Harris, PhD and Meghan Lynch Forder, MA

https://developingadolescent.ucla.edu/resource/connecting-collaborating-and-contributing/

4. Supportive Adult Connections, Teen Pregnancy, and Youth Mental Health

Beckwith, S. Mihalec-Adkins, B., Huang, L. A., Smith, S., & Tallant, J.

https://activatecenter.org/resource/supportive-adult-connections-teen-pregnancy-and-youth-mental-health/

5. How high‑quality friendship supports teen well‑being

Ryan J. Persram

https://theconversation.com/how-high-quality-friendship-supports-teen-well-being-289265

6. Sliding vs Deciding: Why Moving in Should Come After Marriage

Untold

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7k2X0wmIxCqfnHYIMZvzye?si=u8lG-yrsRVKQ4oRjUrS1sw

7. You Can't Teach a Flooded Brain: The Neuroscience of Why Mind Matters Comes First

Oct 14, 2026 04:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0bsbIEfCQGG10rOLiVB70Q#/registration

8. Behind the Research: A Straus Scholar's Summer at the Institute for Family Studies

Matthew Minsk (YC '26)

https://www.yu.edu/news/straus/behind-research-straus-scholars-summer-institute-family-studies

9. The Missing Measure: Family Structure and Child Outcomes

with Ian V. Rowe | Brad Wilcox

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM ET

https://www.aei.org/events/the-missing-measure-family-structure-and-child-outcomes/

10. The rise of dual income households and female breadwinners

By Abby Alecock

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/journalism_and_mass_communications/about/baldwin_initiative/faculty_fellow/student_articles/2026_student_articles/abby-alecock.php

11. SmartLoving: The Dating Recession

Francine & Byron Pirola

https://catholicweekly.com.au/dating-recession-young-adults-marriage/

12. Universities to provide courses on family life

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/universities-to-provide-courses-on-family-life-227696

Thanks

Bill

Bill Coffin

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

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psychopathology/article/perceived-family-instability-involvement-in-interparental-conflict-and-depression-in-adolescents/14C1C65C65EF33C3E672FE306AB61227

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Perceived family instability, involvement in interparental conflict, and depression in adolescents

Kelly A. Warmuth

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Reyhaneh S. Razavi,

Patrick T. Davies

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E. Mark Cummings

2.

How to Get More Boys in the Game?

Too many boys and men are struggling at school, at work, and in their families and communities. Sport can help prepare youth to thrive in life. Upon seeing declines in boys’ participation rates, we partnered with the American Institute of Boys and Men to understand boys’ experiences today and offer ideas on how to deliver on the promise of sports for their development.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

How to Get More Boys in the Game?

Too many boys and men are struggling at school, at work, and in their families and communities. Sport can help prepare youth to thrive in life. Upon seeing declines in boys’ participation rates, we partnered with the American Institute of Boys and Men to understand boys’ experiences today and offer ideas on how to deliver on the promise of sports for their development.

READ REPORT

KEY TAKEAWAYS

3. Latino Families See Family Unity as the Cornerstone of FlourishingLatino Families See Family Unity as the Cornerstone of Flourishing

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/latino-families-family-unity-cornerstone-flourishinghttps://www.childtrends.org/publications/latino-families-family-unity-cornerstone-flourishing

4. The Stability Advantage – Marriage, Family Breakdown and Poverty in the UK

Dr Harry Benson for CSJ

https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/the-stability-advantagehttps://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/the-stability-advantage

5. [PDF] The Evolving Marriage Gap in Children's Outcomes: Family Structure and Young Adult Outcomes Revisited

MS Kearney, P Levine, A Barson - NBER Working Paper, 2026

6. How to make – and keep – friends as a grownup, according to science

Meg Tirrell

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/health/make-keep-friends-grownup-wellness?

7. First Things First: When marriage becomes management

Lauren Hall

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/sep/18/first-things-first-when-marriage-becomes/

8. Why Are More Young Adults Living with Their Parents?

Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher

https://crr.bc.edu/why-are-more-young-adults-living-with-their-parents

9. “God does not make mistakes.” Lou Holtz’s first letter to Notre Dame parents still reads like a coaching manifesto

By Scott Roussel

https://www.footballscoop.com/2026/09/24/god-does-not-make-mistakes-lou-holtzs-first-letter-to-notre-dame-parents-still-reads-like-a-coaching-manifesto

10. Here’s Fulton Sheen’s advice for a happy marriage

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/heres-fulton-sheens-advice-for-a-happy-marriage/

Thanks

Bill

Biking sections of GAP trail north of Meyersdale, PA

https://www.adventurelodgingllc.com/great-allegheny-airstream-orp5b5f8cbx

Bill Coffin

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

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/09/ai-brain-development-youth

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Candidates fot IFS Friday Five #627 (start of Year 14)

1. What AI is doing to young brains

Zara Abrams

2.

Dating Education Action Network (DEAN)

Launch Event

We invite practitioners, researchers, faith leaders, advocates, and teachers to become part of this movement. DEAN will hold its official online kick-off meeting on October 7, 2026. Registration

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN5BwMWdw6uwfsiNb1WuTQzrnzWOy-bAxVsnVK50uOvaq4NQ/viewform

3. I’m a psychologist who studies couples: Emotionally intelligent partners ask 1 question every morning—that most neglect

Mark Travers, Contributor

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/13/emotionally-intelligent-couples-ask-question-every-morning-psychologist.html

4. [PDF] Quality over quantity? Couple financial communication and relationship satisfaction

J Peetz, MT Saxey - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2026

5. America has 30 million single young men. Even Utah is feeling it

Reagan Campbell

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/09/23/epidemic-single-young-men/

6. Condom Brand Tulipán Unveils Perfume for a Generation That Isn’t Having Sex

https://lbbonline.com/news/condom-brand-tulipan-perfume

7. Is the Black family vanishing?

https://www.ccv.org/article/is-the-black-family-vanishing

8. ‘We’re not married for a reason’: why couples are rejecting Labour’s reforms

Alex Marsh is a Money writer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/couples-saying-no-to-marriage-reforms/

9. The Marriage Deficit Is an Economic Catastrophe

A Commentary By Stephen Moore

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_stephen_moore/the_marriage_deficit_is_an_economic_catastrophe#google_vignette

10. Importance of Eating Dinner as a Family

Kate Eshleman, PsyD, a psychologist with Cleveland Clinic Children’s

https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2026/09/23/importance-of-eating-dinner-as-a-family

Thanks

Bill

Bill Coffin

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

https://www.aei.org/events/how-to-be-a-peacemaker-in-an-age-of-contempt-a-book-event-with-governor-spencer-cox/

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. "How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt: A Book Event with Governor Spencer Cox" on

Thursday, September 17, 2026, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET.

2. The fatherhood trait that keeps children from shipwrecking

Annie Holmquist

https://1819news.com/culture/annie-holmquist-the-fatherhood-trait-that-keeps-children-from-shipwrecking?

3. U.S. Real Median Household Income Reached Record High in 2025

Zach Scherer

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2026/09/median-household-income.html

4. Relationship Surveys May All Be Measuring The Same Feeling

Research led by James J. Kim (Lakehead University)

https://studyfinds.com/relationship-surveys-measuring-same-feeling/

5. Lives, Choices and Futures

the United Nations Population Fund asked 108,926 young adults across 73 countries what their ideal future looked like. Seven in ten said marriage

United Nations Population Fund, 2026. Lives, Choices and Futures: What Young People Want and What Shapes their Decisions about Relationships and Parenthood – Findings from the Demographic Futures Survey 2026. New York: UNFPA.

6. [September 22, 2026] The Father-Friendly Action Planning Workshop

NFI

https://www.fatherhoodpractitioners.org/courses/live-september-22-2026-ffactionplanning-public-webinar-training?

7. [PDF] The Ideational Turn in Assortative Mating

Y Wang - Sociology Compass, 2026

Yanwen Wang, Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

8. Do Communication Patterns Predict Marital Satisfaction?

Clemmons, Sharon. Capella University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2026.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/9c107f3447bd0008d22700059a082d0d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

9. What If More People Knew There Were Skills to Repair Relationships?

Rachel Marmor

https://fatherhoodchannel.com/2026/07/29/what-if-more-people-knew-there-were-skills-to-repair-relationships/

10. Catholic couples invited to take part in national marriage survey

https://catholicweekly.com.au/catholic-couples-national-marriage-survey/

11. Teens need more places to meet IRL — their future success may depend on it

Gili Malinsky

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/teens-third-spaces-hang-out.html

Or one of the "related stories" in green bar at the top of that piece

12. Mental health advice from graduate professors

Avery Warden

https://www.liberty.edu/champion/2026/09/14/mental-health-advice-from-graduate-professors/

Thanks

Bill

https://ifstudies.org/blog/category/friday-five

Bill Coffin

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

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Fwd: What Do Men Want In A Wife?

Bill Coffin

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

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From: Institute for Family Studies <editor@ifstudies.org>
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Subject: What Do Men Want In A Wife?
To: Bill <billcoffin68@gmail.com>

Looking at Working Class Men's relationships, data from a marriage-oriented dating app, rising materialism, plus the latest from IFS.

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Family and Nothing Else: Relationships And Purpose for Working-Class Men

by Sam Pressler

Family is often described as the anchor or foundation of a robust relational life. For some working-class men, it’s family and nothing else.

Wine Moms Switched To Weed, But Their Wounds Haven’t Changed

by Jenet Erickson

We have sold an entire generation of mothers the same quiet proposition: that the way through the difficulty of raising a young child is to feel less of it.

Materialism And Marriage

by Jason S. Carroll

A family-focused, non-partisan review of the Vice President’s new memoir

What Do Men Want In A Wife? Evidence From A Matchmaking App

by Rosemary L. Hopcroft

Both men and women who use Keeper want many of the same things in a long-term partner, but men state stronger preferences for youth and beauty.

What Women On A Matchmaking Site Are Looking For In A Husband

by Rosemary L. Hopcroft

Women’s preferences for a spouse are quite similar to men’s. They place greater weight than men on a potential spouse’s ability to provide for a family.