1. Across Cultures, One Key to Happiness Stands Out

2. 2025 Survey of Income and Program Participation

3. Why Forgiveness Is Good for Your Health

4. Can Family and Friends Make or Break a Marriage?

5. Lord Bailey on the rich keeping marriage for themselves

6. "Dating, Relationships, and Mental Well-Being"

The Dibble Institute, in conjunction with the Senate Mental Health Caucus, invites you to a congressional briefing on "Dating, Relationships, and Mental Well-Being.”

Wednesday, August 5th, 2026.
Lunch and learn from 12:00-1:00 pm.
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188.

7. [HTML] Economic Costs and Benefits of the Digital OurRelationship Program for Distressed Couples

8. [PDF] Relationship Quality with Parents: Implications for Own and Partner Well-Being in Middle-Aged Couples Courtney A. Polenick University of Michigan

9. Stress and loneliness in marriage: does loneliness moderate the effects of daily stress on marital satisfaction?

10. [PDF] A Longitudinal Examination of Sexual Functioning and Relationship Adjustment in Couples with Infertility

11. FOR THE LOVE OF RELATIONSHIPS – Healthy Marriage: A Pathway to Human Flourishing

Joneen Mackenzie

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1.The Stability Advantage

Marriage Foundation research director Dr Harry Benson

[PDF] The Timing of Marriage and Union Dissolution

2. Behaviors Associated With Improved Relationship Satisfaction: Examining Change in the Relationship Checkup

3. Call for Papers: Health Communication

4. Sustainable marriage: A longitudinal assessment of the styles of marital relationships and marital quality of long-lasting married couples in Switzerland

5. Couple Relationships and Interaction During Pregnancy: A Comprehensive Review of Key Relational Dynamics

6. [PDF] A Sibling's Intuition: The Role of Sibling Approval for Romantic Relationships

7. Family expectations reduce the risk of postpartum depression among mothers but not fathers

Le, Yunying Allen, Maggie O. T. Stanley, Scott M. Nida, Michelle Rhoades, Galena K.

8. [PDF] Enhancing Relationship Functioning and Relationship Deployment Readiness: Dyadic Changes Through the Adventures in Marriage (AIM) Program Among Military …

9. [PDF] Romantic Relationships and Socioeconomic Status as Independent Predictors of Health and Wellbeing: Evidence From the United States and Spain

10. The role of parental control apps and parental knowledge in adolescents' sleep-related screen use: A nationwide study

11.  Have rising living standards pushed marriage out of reach?

12. The surprising factor shaping young Australians' family plans

 Mikele Syron, SBS News

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at https://www.narme.org/summit-2026

What you need to know before sharing your child’s life online

2. When Love Lives in Two Places: The Work of Loving Across Distance

3. [PDF] … AS A PREDICTOR OF MARITAL READINESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG EMERGING ADULTS: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF RELATIONSHIP …

4. Couple's conflict among veterans seeking PTSD treatment

5. Stress and Loneliness in Marriage: Does Loneliness Moderate the Effects of Daily Stress on Marital Satisfaction?

6. Diversifying research on the transition to parenthood: Recruitment of a sample of ethnic minority, low-income prenatal couples.

7. [HTML] Intimate Relationship Types as Quality-of-Life Predictors in Emerging Adulthood

8. Love Apocalypse: New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility

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Depressive and anxiety symptoms in mothers and fathers and child socioemotional outcomes: A nationwide Canadian study

10. Sustainable marriage: A longitudinal assessment of the styles of marital relationships and marital quality of long-lasting married couples in Switzerland

11. Can You and Your Partner Build a Life Together?

12. The costly retreat from marriage and family

13. How Fathers Spend Time With Their Children

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1. ACF's National Research Conference on Early Childhood 2026 (6/22-24)

Virtual App and Livestream

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Look up poverty rates in your local area

3. Landmark study exposes catastrophic “systemic underestimation” of the importance of marriage

Alistair Thompson - The Editor

4. Korea Moves to Scrap 'Marriage Penalty' That Delayed Registrations

Kim Nam-myung

5. Using Active Listening to Build Stronger Two-Parent Households and Improve TANF Participant Outcomes

PeerTA Resources (OFA Initiatives)

6. How to support young people on the road to adulthood

7.  Happily Ever After? Singles’ Expectations of Romantic Relationships Are Associated With Singlehood Satisfaction and Future Romantic Outcomes

 Tayler Wells, Elaine Hoan, and Geoff MacDonald

Inspiring Better Relationships? The Role of Trait Charisma in Conflict Resolution and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction

 Eric Tu, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Stephanie Raposo, Rhonda N. Balzarini, Emily A. Impett, Cheryl Harasymchuk and Amy Muise

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Is a happy marriage a double-edged sword for biological aging? Preliminary evidence for the moderating role of couples’ health behaviors

9. Limited Blog Series: The Power of Accountability in Fathering

Christopher A. Brown  President of National Fatherhood Initiative® (NFI)

10. Ohio Spends $122M Preventing Out-of-Wedlock Babies, Starves Marriage Support

https://www.ccv.org/news/ohio-spends-122m-preventing-out-of-wedlock-babies-starves-marriage-support

11. How to Flourish: What Research Tells Us

12. Why fatherhood matters more than ever before

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11. Examining Trends in California’s Birth Rates

13. The Love and Flourishing Interest Group of the Flourishing Network, convened by the Harvard Human Flourishing Program (Co-Chaired by Matthew Lee and Jelena Nikolic), will host a first public online event on May 12, 2026, at 10:00 am ET (Eastern U.S.).  Please share this invitation widely with anyone who might be interested in the topic:  "AI, Love, and Human Flourishing." This event involves a presentation and dialogue with Nicolas M. Donofrio, a distinguished technology and innovation leader whose career has included senior executive roles at IBM and influential positions across academia, industry, and government.

1. Let Them Be Bored: Why Your Kids Need More Free Time

1. Longitudinal associations between service member problematic anger and marital dysfunction in U.S. military couples: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Program

2. “I teach her at home”: Home learning environments amid resource constraints

3. 100+ marriage tips

4. Examining Separate Financial Behaviors as Predictors of Both Spouses' Personal Financial Satisfaction Among Different-Gender Couples in Early Marriage

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6. [PDF] Digital dating abuse: a grounded theory study

7. Researching infant cues and rhythms: Q&A with Bethany Lee, Nancy McElwain and Corrie Penrod

8. Bolstering Black Fatherhood in Baltimore

9. The Vanishing Immigrant Marriage Advantage: How Assimilation Leads to Fewer Marriages

10. The Vatican is preparing for the summit convened by Pope Leo XIV to address the crisis in marriage.

11. The mixed marriage project: a memoir of love, race, and family

12. Nine Animal Parents Who Could Really Use a Day Off

Elizabeth Preston

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