Candidates for IFS Friday Five

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

The one thing strong couples do when they fight

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 

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




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







Candidates for IFS Friday Five

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

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.





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

Ryan J. Persram







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

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





11. SmartLoving: The Dating Recession

Francine & Byron Pirola






12. Universities to provide courses on family life






Thanks
Bill

Candidates for IFS Friday Five




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.

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.





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

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







7. First Things First: When marriage becomes management

 Lauren Hall







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



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






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







Thanks
Bill
Biking sections of GAP trail north of Meyersdale, PA
https://www.adventurelodgingllc.com/great-allegheny-airstream-orp5b5f8cbx

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




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






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


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


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






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. 







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


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





12. Mental health advice from graduate professors

Avery Warden






Fwd: What Do Men Want In A Wife?



---------- Forwarded message ---------
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.
͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌     ͏ ‌    ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­

About Us

Research

Donate
 

Articles From This Week

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.


Read the full article →

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.


Read the full article →

Materialism And Marriage

by Jason S. Carroll

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


Read the full article →

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.


Read the full article →

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.


Read the full article →

Congratulations to Bill Coffin on Lifetime Achievement Award!



A longtime IFS fellow and contributing editor, Bill recently won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 NARME summit. Join us in giving him a HUGE congratulations.



Check out Bill’s Weekly Friday Five →


Weekly Insight

Read more here →

In The News This Week

  1. Lyman Stone wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about impending population decline


  2. Peter Foreshaw Brookes appeared on EWTN News Nightly to discuss the state of American fertility


  3. Peter Foreshaw Brookes was quoted in a National Review piece about friendship and fertility


  4. Brad Wilcox went on the Isabel Brown Show to discuss marriage, dating, and happiness


  5. Brad Wilcox joined the Washington Post’s Make it Make Sense podcast to talk all thing relationships


Will you strengthen marriage and support families with IFS?

Donate Today
Facebook icon
Instagram icon
LinkedIn icon
X icon
 

Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us

© 2024 Institute for Family Studies
P.O. Box 1502 Charlottesville, VA 22902


Unsubscribe from this list

Candidates for IFS Friday Five

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


https://slidingvsdeciding.blogspot.com/




5. How Half-Listening Undermines Your Marriage






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

https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/spc3.70168




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 MotherWise

Jenny Lee 1, Yunying Le 1, Galena K Rhoades 1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42675014/




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
    orcid icon
  • Jeffry A. Simpson1
    orcid icon
  • Alexander J. Rothman











11. Doing Future and Love, Marriage, and Family

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-52371-8_9




12. ACF Awards $7.3 Million to Help States Build Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Foster Care Entries





13. On the Shortage of Marriageable Women






Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. How to Increase Compassion and Lower Contempt in Relationships





2. Mapping the Mystery of Humanity

https://globalflourishingstudy.com/



3. Strong Marriages.
Whole Families.




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

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/fare.70271




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
    orcid icon
  • Zhengyu Zhang2
    orcid icon
  • Lingzi Zhong3
    orcid icon
  • Kyle Kearns1
  • Sarah Varga4





11. How Appropriated Racial Oppression Impacts Black Parent-Child Discussions on Race

https://jbhe.com/2026/08/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




13 https://www.marriageinitiatives.org/
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








Candidates for IFS Friday Five

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.

https://wapo.st/4cgC2M2 

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

https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/michael-j-mcmanus-syndicated-columnist,262623





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/1221622779





6. Do You Compare Yourself to Your Partner? It’s Not All Bad

 Zachary Reese







9. Generation AI starts early symposium

9/9 @9am 

https://www.brookings.edu/events/generation-ai-starts-early-symposium/







10. Appropriated racial oppression shapes Black parents’ socialization of children

Sharita Forrest

https://news.illinois.edu/appropriated-racial-oppression-shapes-black-parents-socialization-of-children/




11. Dolly Parton and Carl Dean’s love story: Inside their 60-year relationship

Brianna Zigler

https://ew.com/dolly-parton-and-carl-dean-inside-their-60-year-love-story-12068031




12. Young people still see marriage as ‘ultimate sign of commitment’

Obianuju Mbah










Candidates for IFS Friday Five





2. The World’s Best Managers with Emily Oster

https://earlychildhoodmatters.online/birth-of-a-parent-podcast/





3. Healthy Relationships Florida partners with churches and relationship-education organizations

https://healthyrelationshipsflorida.org/partner





4.  Harmonies of Taste: Shared Music Preferences and Compatibility in Romantic Relationships

 Julia Vigl, Felix Lene Ihrig, Miriam Greif, and Marcel Zentner






5. Love Without Becoming the Therapist: How to Support a Traumatized Partner ...

By Calvin Larkin Tanne


John S. Collier, MSW, LCSW-S 

https://sekybh.com/tag/intentionality/




7. Registration for Winshape 2027 retreats is officially LIVE!

 https://marriage.winshape.org/upcoming-events/



8. The spatial distribution of the U.S. childfree population: Does state context matter?

Zachary P. Neal ,Jennifer Watling Neal






9. Fatherhood and motherhood reshape the importance people place on marriage, according to a study






10. Most U.S. adults have lived with a romantic partner they’re not married to by their early 40s






Lexi DeHart





Thanks
Bill