1. Which Close Relationships Matter Most for Health? It Depends on Gender

2. What 50,000 purchased brides tell us about the pitfalls of online dating

Root Causes and Luke Taylor

3. What Relationship Educators Can Offer a Polarized America

William J. Doherty, Ph.D.

4. 2027 NARME Summit Presenter Application

5. A Fresh Look at Black Family Structures in the United States

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7. If you want more babies, make remote work easier

8. Mattering in Early Childhood: Building a Strong Foundation for Life

9. The Social Guidance Film as a Scientific Framing of Morality

10. A longitudinal examination of parental PTSD symptoms, interparental conflict, and child adjustment in military families following parental deployment 

Muskan Datta , Sharon Christ & Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth

11. HDFS 4463 - Marriage and Relationship Education

12. Six apartments, one family: The multigenerational buying trend emerging at The Orchards

Joel Robinson

https://www.apartments.com.au/news/nsw/six-apartments-one-family-the-multigenerational-buying-trend-emerging-at-the-orchards

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Bill

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

Miranda L. Egger & Lawrence Ramos

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.

4. Are married mums really happier?

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

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

Alberto Amadori, 
Stephen T. Russell

State of the Science: Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Couple Therapy and Secondary Interventions

Maya Metser-Waldman a, Brian D. Doss a

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

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

 Chancey Herbolsheimer

8, The Second Big Bang Starts at the Kitchen Table

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

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

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Bill

1. Does Marriage Just Get Harder?

John & Sofia Cuddeback

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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

9. 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?

11. Reflections of the Nation’s Former Marriage Czar

12. Fertility Needs Friendship

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Bill

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

1. Marriage Every Day®

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

10/22

3. Generation Uncoupled

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

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☆

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

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

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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

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

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

7. First Things First: When marriage becomes management

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

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

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Bill

Biking sections of GAP trail north of Meyersdale, PA

1. What AI is doing to young brains

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Dating Education Action Network (DEAN)

  

 Launch Event

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

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

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

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Bill

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

7. [PDF] The Ideational Turn in Assortative Mating

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

8. Do Communication Patterns Predict Marital Satisfaction?

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

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12. Mental health advice from graduate professors

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Bill