Monthly MM's & PP's - SEPTEMBER 2011

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Marriage Moments & Parenting Pointers

SEPTEMBER - 2011

 

Family heart

 

I offer you these tidbits of wisdom as prayer prompts to remind you (and your constituents) of the sacredness of marriage vows and the value of every child. The commitment to love a spouse forever, and the generous gift of life parents offer a child are indeed spiritual under-takings and cannot be done alone. May the God of Love be with you and your work.


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Dear Bill ,
Below are your Marriage Moments and Parenting Pointers for SEPTEMBER.

   

Note: My September Family Resource is Dealing with Fear.

 

Shameless plug: My latest book, Money in the Kingdom of God, has just been published. It's a Bible study on use of possessions. I also have a Facebook group, Living Lightly. 
MARRIAGE MOMENTS

432. Sept. 5: (Labor Day) "Come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened and I will give you rest." (Mt. 11:28). For those who have full time jobs (whether paid or in the home) this is a comforting scripture. Unemployment, however, can be a stress on marriage. Pray for those who need money but can't find work. Maybe it's you.

 

433. Sept. 12: "Love is no assignment for cowards." (Ovid) Have you ever stood up for your spouse? Perhaps someone was making fun of her. Or maybe other wives were mocking their husbands and it would have been easy to join the banter. Be true to your absent spouse.

 

434. Sept. 19: Although flexibility is important in a marriage, sometimes relationships break down when one partner takes life too loosely. It's hard when you don't know if you can depend on your spouse to meet a deadline or a commitment. What's your spouse good at remembering?

 

435. Sept. 26: When good secretaries take a message they always repeat the telephone number and summarize the message. Your spouse deserves similar service. "Now you said ... Did I get it right?" Saves a lot of misunderstandings and mix-ups.

PARENTING POINTERS

431. Sept. 2: As school starts, it's helpful to have routines. For example: Set out school supplies and clothes the night before. No "screen time" till after homework is done. No cell phones after bedtime. What are your family rules?

 

432. Sept. 9: (Anniversary of 9/11) This Sunday the USA remembers with sadness the tragedy of 9/11. It was a day of fear that prompted a decade of security measures. Help your children move beyond their fears. (See my Family Activity, Dealing with Fears.)

 

433. Sept. 16: "I was sick and you visited me." (Mt. 25:35) Parents readily do this corporal work of mercy each time our child has a cold or we kiss a boo boo. But what about those physically or mentally ill people outside our family? Does someone need a visit? Take a child with you.

 

434. Sept. 23: Next Monday is National Family Day. The focus is on eating together with your children. If your children are young, this is easy. They need you to cook. If they are older, make an effort to eat together - if not Monday, one day next week.

 

435. Sept. 30: "I was in prison and you came to see me." (Mt. 25:35) Now this might seem like a hard work of mercy to do with a child. Consider, however, that sending a child to her room or "time out" is a kind of imprisonment. Give them a way to redeem themselves afterwards.
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Family Structure and Children's Health

   

Attached is the study I talked about.  

No. 246. Family Structure and Children's Health in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2001-2007. 176 pp. (PHS) 2011-1574.  Adobe PDF file [PDF - 2.4 MB]


 

Have a great weekend!

 

Joneen

 

Joneen Mackenzie RN,BSN

The Center For Relationship Education

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When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the first result is a vast expansion of government attempts  to cope with the terrible social needs that result.  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation:  crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

-Maggie Gallagher

 

 

 

 

Pilot Data Released for Public Use

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Married and Cohabiting Couples
Pilot Data Released for Public Use

 

Couple on Bench

 

 

 

NCFMR Releases Pilot Data on 
Married and Cohabiting Couples

 

The NCFMR is pleased to announce the release of the Married and Cohabiting Couples pilot data via the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The data provide researchers with a unique opportunity to examine both married and cohabiting couple relationships from the perspectives of both spouses/partners. 

 

Information from both members of the couple on a range of topics is included in the data, such as...

  • union history,
  • work and family stress,
  • marital disillusionment, and
  • health-care preferences.


The data are composed of a nationally representative sample of United States married (752) and cohabiting (323) couples 18-64 years of age. 

 

This is the second pilot data release that the NCFMR has provided to researchers using the large, web-based household survey from the Knowledge Networks (KN) panel. The Married and Cohabiting Couples data were collected between July and October 2010. In addition to the main survey variables, Knowledge Networks' standard profile, and a series of data processing variables created by KN are also included in the data. 

 

The Married and Cohabiting Couples data include several questionnaire items proposed by researchers from around the country. These teams presented their preliminary findings from the data to more than 20 NCFMR affiliates, staff, and students at the Married and Cohabiting Couples Pilot Data conference on August 4 at Bowling Green State University. 

 

Click here to Quick Download the Married and Cohabiting Couples Pilot Data projects from the ICPSR website.

 

 

Research Teams and Projects 

  • Measures of Cohabitation: A Binary Variable Problem?

Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach, Co-PIs

Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Sociology 

University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

 

  • Factors Affecting Adults' Knowledge of their Partner's Medical Treatment Preferences

Sara M. Moorman and Deborah Carr, Co-PIs 

Boston College, Department of Sociology and Institute on Aging

Rutgers University, Department of Sociology

 

  • Proposal to Administer the Marital Disillusionment Scale in the Knowledge Networks Panel Survey

Sylvia Niehuis and Alan Reifman, Co-PIs

Texas Tech University, Department of Human Development and Family Studies

 

  • Gender, Beliefs about Spouses' Work-Family Conflict, and Relationship Quality

Kei Nomaguchi and Melissa Milkie, Co-PIs

Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology
University of Maryland, Department of Sociology

 

  • How Couples Meet

Kelly Raley, PI

University of Texas, Department of Sociology

 

  • Parental Co-residence with Adult Children

Judith Seltzer and Suzanne Bianchi, Co-PIs

University of California Los Angeles, Department of Sociology  

    

 

 

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Marriage Monthly: Making I Do Work, Marriage In The News

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Special Offer on Casebook of Filial Therapy

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