1. Marriage Every Day®
2. U.S. Census Bureau Hosts 2025 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates Prerelease Webinar
3. Generation Uncoupled
By Daniel A. Cox
4. There’s a simple way to become a better listener. Most of us don’t do it.
OR
Anna Borges
5. Genes And Family, Not Just Phones, May Drive The Teen Screen-Depression Link
Research led by Tong Gong and Yi Lu (Karolinska Institutet)
6. Access for All through the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative
Francesca Adler-Baeder
7. Why Commitment Still Matters in the Age of AI Companions
D. Scott Sibley Ph.D., LMFT, CFLE and Brooklynn Garcia
8. Operationalizing deployment history: Three approaches to examining associations with military couples’ marital satisfaction
Julia Janeczko,Catherine Walker O’Neal & Mallory Lucier-Greer
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
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?
12. Amoris Laetitia meeting, October 9: prelates discuss young people and the discovery of the vocation to marriage
1. The Couple Relationship Skills Inventory: Is There Added Benefit of Partner's Report?
2. Loneliness Linked To Nearly 6 Fewer Years Free Of Depression, Anxiety
Research led by Lu Qi (Tulane University)
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
4. Supportive Adult Connections, Teen Pregnancy, and Youth Mental Health
Beckwith, S. Mihalec-Adkins, B., Huang, L. A., Smith, S., & Tallant, J.
5. How high‑quality friendship supports teen well‑being
6. Sliding vs Deciding: Why Moving in Should Come After Marriage
Untold
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)
8. Behind the Research: A Straus Scholar's Summer at the Institute for Family Studies
Matthew Minsk (YC '26)
9. The Missing Measure: Family Structure and Child Outcomes
with 
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM ET10. The rise of dual income households and female breadwinners
By Abby Alecock
11. SmartLoving: The Dating Recession
Francine & Byron Pirola
12. Universities to provide courses on family life
Thanks
Bill
1. Perceived family instability, involvement in interparental conflict, and depression in adolescents
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3. Latino Families See Family Unity as the Cornerstone of FlourishingLatino Families See Family Unity as the Cornerstone of Flourishing
4. The Stability Advantage – Marriage, Family Breakdown and Poverty in the UK
Dr Harry Benson for CSJ
MS Kearney, P Levine, A Barson - NBER Working Paper, 2026
6. How to make – and keep – friends as a grownup, according to science
7. First Things First: When marriage becomes management
Lauren Hall
8. 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
10. Here’s Fulton Sheen’s advice for a happy marriage
Thanks
Bill
Biking sections of GAP trail north of Meyersdale, PA
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
3. I’m a psychologist who studies couples: Emotionally intelligent partners ask 1 question every morning—that most neglect
Mark Travers, Contributor
J Peetz, MT Saxey - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2026
5. America has 30 million single young men. Even Utah is feeling it
6. Condom Brand Tulipán Unveils Perfume for a Generation That Isn’t Having Sex
7. 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
9. The Marriage Deficit Is an Economic Catastrophe
A Commentary By Stephen Moore
10. Importance of Eating Dinner as a Family
Kate Eshleman, PsyD, a psychologist with Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Thanks
Bill
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
3. U.S. Real Median Household Income Reached Record High in 2025
Zach Scherer
4. Relationship Surveys May All Be Measuring The Same Feeling
Research led by James J. Kim (Lakehead University)
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
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.
9. What If More People Knew There Were Skills to Repair Relationships?
Rachel Marmor
10. Catholic couples invited to take part in national marriage survey
11. Teens need more places to meet IRL — their future success may depend on it
Or one of the "related stories" in green bar at the top of that piece
12. Mental health advice from graduate professors
Avery Warden
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Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Subject: What Do Men Want In A Wife?
To: Bill <billcoffin68@gmail.com>
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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1. Fewer People Are Going to Become Grandparents—and No One Has Acknowledged Their Grief
By Laurie Yarnell
2. Family Obligations? Working-Class Older Parents’ Relational Work in Support of their Young Adult Children
Rona Ziv and Orly Benjaminhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0307-9442
3. Over 1 in 3 young Japanese not interested in tying the knot, survey finds
Dr. Scott M. Stanley
6. All or Nothing: How Ambivalence and Indifference Shape the Initiation, Maintenance, and Dissolution of Romantic Relationships
Mirna Đurić1 | Francesca Righetti2 | Giulia Zoppolat3 | Iris K. Schneider4
7. I do not have access to this article
Indirect Effects of Individual-Oriented Relationship Education on Children's Social-Emotional Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial of MotherWiseJenny Lee 1, Yunying Le 1, Galena K Rhoades 1
8. [PDF] Mentalization and couple relationships: A systematic review of associations and interventions
K Hurman, M Shaikh, T Greene, C O'Driscoll - Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory …, 2026
9. Testing the Extrinsic Convergent Validity of Relationship Quality Constructs
- Charlotte A. Sudduth1,2
- Jeffry A. Simpson1
- Alexander J. Rothman
11. Doing Future and Love, Marriage, and Family
12. ACF Awards $7.3 Million to Help States Build Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Foster Care Entries
13. On the Shortage of Marriageable Women
1. How to Increase Compassion and Lower Contempt in Relationships
Steven Stosny, Ph.D. for PT
2. Mapping the Mystery of Humanity
4.
Why Young Men Are Opting Out of Work | Tanveer Ahmed
6.
Downloadable Resource for Parents: The Magic Tablet
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/screen-use-harms/index.html#magic-tablet
7. Singapore offers families financial support as birth rate hits record low
8. When Men Become Optional, Babies Disappear
Rob Henderson
9.
Lessons From the Field: Designing Professional
Development for Military Family Practitioners
Kalin Goble Mathis1 | Nichole Huff2 | Kristen Jowers2 | Kayla Reed-Fitzke3 | Jasmine Lewis1 |
Molly Herndon1 | Kathleen Hlavaty4
10. A Preliminary Test of the Comprehensive Model of Post-Dissolution Distress: Predicting Initial and Over Time Changes in Distress Following Romantic Dissolution
- René M. Dailey1
- Zhengyu Zhang2
- Lingzi Zhong3
- Kyle Kearns1
- Sarah Varga4
11. How Appropriated Racial Oppression Impacts Black Parent-Child Discussions on Race
12. Couple to climb Kilimanjaro to celebrate 60 years of marriage
by: MacKenzie Michalojko
Number and Timing of Grant Awards. Since 2022, the CMI Fund has offered seven rounds of grants, and awarded grants to sixteen organizations. The deadline for the eighth round is 11:59 pm ET on:
Application Grant Period
Round # Due Date Begins
8 9/15/2026 10/16/2026
1. Is Your Marriage a Conspiracy Against the World?
Nicole Ruiz and Leah Libresco Sargeant
2. The decisions we should make
3. No one should have to win the financial or legal lottery to become a parent.
OR
Extreme inequality is commonplace, so why do people accept it?
4. Michael J. McManus, syndicated columnist of ‘The Northern Perspective,’ ‘Solutions’ and ‘Ethics & Religion’ dies at 85
Author of Marriage Savers and Community Marriage Policies
5. Building the Benedict Option
Restoring the Social Order Within Our Homes and Churches - Part III
https://instituteofcatholicculture.org/events/building-the-benedict-option/video/12216227796. Do You Compare Yourself to Your Partner? It’s Not All Bad
7. Dating as Duty
Stephan Kapustka
DT Commit, CD Sibley, WOTI Reading
OR
“A Pathway to Commitment: Exploring the Steps and Stages Preceding Commitment and Marriage” (click link to view the presentation).
from https://decidetocommit.com/international-association-for-relationship-research-2026-conference/
9. Generation AI starts early symposium
9/9 @9am
10. Appropriated racial oppression shapes Black parents’ socialization of children
Sharita Forrest
11. Dolly Parton and Carl Dean’s love story: Inside their 60-year relationship
12. Young people still see marriage as ‘ultimate sign of commitment’
Obianuju Mbah