Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Why having children has moved down the priority list

By David Quinn







2. Preparing for Healthy Relationships: Relationship Skills for 5th and 6th Graders

Dibble Institute

https://dibbleinstitute.org/our-programs/emerging-relationships/




3. State of the Safety Net

Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
 
Virtual Event https://events.urban.org/stateofthesafetynet?





4. Family Caregiving in an Aging America


https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2026/02/26/family-caregiving-in-an-aging-america/




5. Pat and I had a 1500-day rule

Predictors of Long-Term Relationship Success in Contemporary Couples – 90-Day rule?







6. Is Low Fertility in High-Income Countries Here to Stay?






7. Routine helps children adjust to school, but harsh parenting may undo benefits






8. Couples who savor report less stress






10. Americans are Lonely and Isolated. Here’s How Public Policy Could Help.

Bradley Holst, assistant teaching professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy






11. Which US cities have the most single and married people?


https://knsiradio.com/2026/03/04/which-us-cities-have-the-most-single-and-married-people/




12. What Does Marriage Look Like for This New Generation

Rosemary Akpan

https://www.ebony.com/black-couples-redefining-modern-marriage/





13. Diverse paths in later life: Marriage gap after 50 leaves Black, Hispanic seniors at a policy disadvantage





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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Proposed Information Collection Activity: Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures and Additional Data Collection

A Notice by the Children and Families Administration





2. Marriage education and trauma prevention – a match

Susan Barth




3. The myth that women are more naturally empathetic than men

Melissa Hogenboom




4. I'm a Retirement Psychologist: This Is Why a Supportive Marriage May Matter More Than Money in Retirement

 

https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/retirement-planning/in-retirement-a-supportive-marriage-may-matter-more-than-money





5. National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education (NARME) Summit

Denver, CO on July 8-11, 2026





6. FYI, I don't have access

Save the Children: Why the African American Church Should Promote Marriage

Edward Fubara







7. Why Friendship Is the Hidden Key to Deep Connection and Long‑Term Commitment

By Charlotte Rohn





9. Rebuilding the Foundation: Why the Success Sequence is Key to Ohio’s Future






10. Helping Boys Navigate Harmful Online Influences


OR

Talking to Boys About Pornography Can Support Healthy Relationships and Prevent Violence



OR

Technology & Teens: Supporting Safe, Healthy Relationships in Teens’ Digital Lives



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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Moral Formation Across the Life-Course: A Social Cognitive–Relational Developmental Perspective

Daniel Lapsley






2. Several Adverse Childhood Experiences Declined Modestly From 2018 to 2023






3. 

When Adult Children Walk Away—and How Parents Can Still Lead with Love with Jim Burns

Podcast Episode · Change The Odds · 02/11/2026 · 37m

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-the-odds/id1724097706?i=1000749258287













4. 

National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education (NARME) Summit







5. The biological roots of the seven deadly sins might start in the womb

by PsyPost








6. Becoming the Example: Advice from African American Couples Who Abstained Until Marriage

by Emily N. McKnightFam. Sci. 2026, 2(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/famsci2010007

https://www.mdpi.com/3042-6693/2/1/7






7. Emotion Regulation and Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy: What Happens Across Sessions?
Min Xu 1,✉, Lee N Johnson 2, Shayne R Anderson 2, Angela Bradford 2, Alyssa Banford Witting 2

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12888074/




8.  Turning Everything Upside Down: The Impact of Illness on Romantic Relationships—A SEM-Based Actor-Partner Interdependence Model

 Franziska Reinhardt | Imad Maatouk Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Integrated Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany


Madalaine Elhabbal

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/vatican-social-sciences-academy-appointee-to-apply-quantitative-skills-in-role



10. “The Husband Blueprint” Book Launched in Lagos: A Call to Nation-building Through Responsible Manhood and Stronger Families.





11. Speaking of Psychology: What relationship science says about finding love, with Paul Eastwick, PhD










13. Confidence in your relationship can improve individual well-being

Marianne Stein




Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala



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Bill



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1.  Day 7 Virtual Event Friday, February 13, 7:00 PM CT

Living for Something Greater (Friday, Feb 13)

https://link.marriageweek.org/NMWGreater






2. U.S. bishops to adopt national marriage initiative

EWTN Logo






3. Get Married Young








4. Why Are We So Pornsick? 


OR

Evaluation of outcome measures for assessing problematic pornography use: A COSMIN systematic review of measurement properties

Feng Jin a 1, Wenwen Zhang b 1, Pengshuo Wang c, Beáta Bőthe d e, Ziqi Wang f



5. 5 Simple Ways to Argue Less as a Couple: Fight Less, Love More

Michele Weiner-Davis








6. Love Is a Menu, Not Five Languages

Lasting relationships need variety, responsiveness, and nourishment, not just fluency in a single love language.
By Emily Impett






7. The 2026 NARME Workshop Schedule

https://www.narme.org/workshops-2026




8. Research Brief: Developmental Relationships in Schools

Search Institute

https://searchinstitute.org/resources-hub/research-brief-developmental-relationships-in-schools




9.  Why Parenthood Strains Relationships: Investigating the Mechanisms Behind Declining Relationship Satisfaction 

Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Faculty I: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany


https://ffcws.princeton.edu/publications/introducing-future-families-third-generation-ffg3-study






11. 5 practical ways to strengthen marriage beyond Valentine’s Day

by Avery Sloane & Jared Turner, KUTV


https://kutv.com/news/arc-salt-lake/5-practical-ways-to-strengthen-marriage-beyond-valentines-day





12. [HTML] Chapter Three. A (Wo) man with a Plan? Understanding Life Course Plans among Single Young Adults

M Bracke, D Van Gasse, D Mortelmans - Current Perspectives on Contemporary …, 2026





13. Even during sex, college students don’t put down their cell phones





14. Mom of Toddler Wins Olympic Gold Medal—What She Does Next Stuns Viewers

Maria Azzurra Volpe

https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mom-toddler-wins-olympic-gold-medal-stuns-viewers-11489253




Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. 15 Valentine’s Day Date Ideas for Couples

WinShape Marriage





2. Our 2026 theme is "Together With Purpose."

Register for this year's live broadcasts!





3. We're living through the great detachment

David Brooks, The New York Times






4. Teens favor “best friend” AI chatbots, raising new safety questions for EdTech


https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/teens-favor-best-friend-ai-chatbots-raising-new-safety-questions-for-edtech




5. New Healthy and Ready to Learn Data Dashboard Shows 3-Year-Olds’ Development

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/healthy-ready-learn-national-state-data-3-year-old-development




6. [PDF] Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work‐Family Arrangements, 1968–2023
L Pessin, F Querin - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2026
… Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and multinomial logistic
regression models, we find that the relationship between educational pairings and
work- family arrangements have evolved significantly, with distinct patterns for







7. [HTML] Longitudinal associations between service member problematic anger and marital dysfunction in US military couples: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Program

TN Ray, MP Forsstrom, R Joneydi, CA LeardMann… - Journal of Affective …, 2026 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666915326000132
Problematic anger is prevalent among service members and is associated with numerous dysfunctional outcomes. Research is needed to determine whether a service member's problematic anger has a unique, long-term impact on marital …





8. Valentine’s special: URI Couple & Family Therapy Clinic offers free relationship check-ups for student couples


https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/02/valentines-special-uri-couple-family-therapy-clinic-offers-free-relationship-check-ups-for-student-couples-2/







































9. Federal funding go to towards InvolvedDad






10. Utah bills aim to strengthen families by eliminating marriage penalties
 
Dan Evans

https://www.fox13now.com/good-day-utah/utah-bills-aim-to-strengthen-families-by-eliminating-marriage-penalties




11. Patriots’ Drake Maye Gives Heartfelt Answer On Marriage Helping Career




12. A lot of evangelical marriage advice is wrong. Here’s the evidence

 Sheila Wray Gregoire



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. New Report Estimates $154 Billion in Annual Taxpayer Costs Linked to Father Absence








2. Romantic Couples Study

AU

https://www.american.edu/cas/psychology/interpersonal/participation.cfm#couples




3. https://www.marriageweek.org/




4. Choosing Love Daily: The Commitment Behind Raising a Child with Autism


https://decidetocommit.com/choosing-love-daily-the-commitment-behind-raising-a-child-with-autism/




5. Census Bureau Releases Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for States, Counties and School Districts

OR

New Data Show Fewer Women Gave Birth While Unmarried in the Past Decade







6. National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education (NARME) Summit, July 8-11, 2026

https://www.narme.org/summit-2026






7. Estonia warned it may have just 5 years to reverse population collapse






8. Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood

The State and Tribal Technical Assistance and Resources (STAR)

https://peerta.acf.hhs.gov/hmrf






9. Director of The New Wineskins Project





10. Affording a family: The two-income shift







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Candidates for IFS Friday Five






2. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Pregnancy Centers

Braun, Sarah K.; Falk, Gene

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12302?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22crsProductBillCitation%3A%5C%22119HR6945%5C%22%22%7D&s=1&r=1




3. Greater Good Parenting Talks: Parents Have Feelings, Too

When: Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 10:30 am PT/1:30 pm ET
Where: Zoom, Free-Space Limited






4. Nearly Half of Hispanic Children Live in Families With Low Incomes





5. WEBINAR REPLAY: Profound Ideas on the Nature of Commitment

https://dibbleinstitute.org/event/webinar-profound-ideas-on-the-nature-of-commitment/





6. Demographic Winter: France Sees More Deaths Than Births for First Time Since WW2

Kurt Zindulka


https://ifamnews.com/en/hungary-expands-pro-family-support-programs


OR

Lowest ever marriage and birth rates show Ireland is on the wrong course says new Iona paper



OR

China sees rebound in marriages as policy support shows impact






7. Why the Divorce Rate for Older Couples Continues to Rise





9. Heritage Foundation says declining marriage rates pose a threat to society

A Martínez






10. 7 Conversations - “Building a Foundation of Purpose”

 https://www.marriageweek.org/broadcasts





11. UofL social work professor focuses on importance of fatherhood

Holly Hinson

https://www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltoday/uofl-social-work-professor-focuses-on-importance-of-fatherhood/





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Bill

Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Clear, Accessible Education Research Can Help Parents Make Informed Decisions





2. 

Why Kids Don't Listen & How to Shift the Dynamic


Hunter Clarke-Fields





3. Evidence-Based Strategies for Enhancing Well-Being
        Yael Dror,Psy.D





4. Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility in High-Income Countries


Speaker: Melissa Kearney (University of Notre Dame)

 
View Webcast https://www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/2026/developments-in-fertility-in-high-income-countries




5. RFA Opportunity: The ProFathering15™ Expansion Project


NFI

https://www.fatherhood.org/ddsf-rfa




6. https://www.marriageweek.org/marriage-week-toolkit



7. Priced Out of Marriage: Housing Prices and Declining Marriage Rates Worldwide (2009–2018)

Jeremy Ko a, Chun Kai Leung b, Hoi Sze Tang c, Mohammad Ridwan d, Xiaoxian Chen e, Chunlan Guo c

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050607726000012




8. I can't access this

Marital Fertility Decline in Italy

JJ Sánchez-Barricarte, R Pace - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2025
… in Italy specifically includes a detailed set of tables of fertility and marriage by
cohort and period. Education has been thought to play an important role in fertility
rates. In particular, the role of women’s education appears to have been even more …





9. [PDF] Family Background, College Education, and Marriageability
J Cho - 2026
… that the relationships between education, marriage, and gender may not be as
simple as they might seem; hence, these relationships and … I hypothesize that the
influence of college education on marriage will be significantly reduced after …




10. Opinion: The classroom is vital, but don’t forget Utah’s families when addressing the literacy crisis

Paul Schvaneveldt



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. What I’ll tell my daughter about the joys and challenges of getting married

Elise Ureneck






2. The Power of Shared Happiness

Tomiko Yoneda, Theresa Pauly, Nathan Lewis, Ken Madden, and Claudia M. Haase





3. The Fortress of Truth 2025 look back compilation for C4M 1 of 2








4. Power, Sexism, and Aggression in Intimate Relationships

Nickola C. Overall, Matthew D. Hammond b, Emily J. Cross c

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X25002684




5. How Do We Help Youth Flourish, Not Just Achieve?

with Robert Pondiscio

https://www.aei.org/events/how-do-we-help-youth-flourish-not-just-achieve/




6. Child Maltreatment in the United States Declined From 2020-2023

Rebecca Vivrette

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/child-maltreatment-united-states




7. Divorce rate rises for couples over 65: What do Catholic experts suggest?

Tyler Arnold

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268793/gray-divorce-rates-rise





8. Longitudinal Associations Between Screen Time and Children’s Language, Early Educational Skills, and Peer Social Functioning

Megan Gath, L. John Horwood, Gail Gillon, Brigid McNeill, Lianne J. Woodward

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-64115-001.html?_gl=1*1bnzc3u*_gcl_au*MTc2MDkxMzM3Ni4xNzY3ODg2MTk4*_ga*MTY2OTA3OTc3Ni4xNzY2NjI2NjY1*_ga_SZXLGDJGNB*czE3Njc4ODYyMDAkbzEkZzEkdDE3Njc4ODY1MDAkajQyJGwwJGgw





9. Birth Rates Continue to Decline: These Explanations Are Seen by the Expert






10. Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years






11. Young South Koreans warming to marriage again, survey shows


https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/methodology/methodology_workshop/marriage



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Bill