Candidates for Friday Five

1. 10 Pillars of a Strong Relationship

BY GARY W. LEWANDOWSKI JR.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/10_pillars_of_a_strong_relationship


OR

How Parents of Children With Autism Can Strengthen Their Relationship

BY MARYAM ABDULLAH





2. Analyzing Data on Paired Partners in Program Evaluation: Strategies to Overcome Common Challenges

OPRE/ACF

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/analyzing-data-paired-partners-program-evaluation-strategies-overcome-common-challenges



3. FRPN Co-Director Dr. Jessica Pearson and researcher Anne Byrne have authored a new brief for the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse - Parenting Time and Child Support: Information for Fatherhood Programs and Father

https://www.fatherhood.gov/sites/default/files/resource_files/Parenting%20Time%20Child%20Support%20-%20for%20508%202-17-21.pdf




4. March 24, 2021 - 2:30 - 4 p.m. EDT

Webinar: Enhancing Services and Programs for Fathers: An Overview of National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse Resources

https://fathersincorporated.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_cQqWS3W4T0y5hqUbBDMEAg




5. Marriages drop to record low, but divorces fall too

LEE HO-JEONG 

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/03/18/business/economy/Wedding-Covid19-Divorce-Covid19-International-marriage-drops/20210318154700501.html

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210318000831


OR

Young married South Koreans are pretending to be single in order to skip the line for affordable housing

Cheryl Teh





6. What Does The Child Tax Credit In The Coronavirus Relief Package Mean For Families?

By Mary Kate McCoy

https://www.wpr.org/what-does-child-tax-credit-coronavirus-relief-package-mean-families




7. Your Married Friends Aren't Having Quarantine Sex Either

By Tanya Edwards

https://www.glamour.com/story/your-married-friends-arent-having-quarantine-sex-either





8. Family Relations After Interracial Marriage

Kate H. Choi Ph.D.






9. Birth to 5 Father Engagement Guide

Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC

https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/family-engagement/birth-5-father-engagement-guide/birth-5-father-engagement-guide




10. Plough Quarterly No. 26: Family

Winter 2021

https://www.plough.com/en/subscriptions/quarterly/2021/winter-2021-issue-26




A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums

More Work, Fewer Babies: What does workism have to do with falling fertility? Mar 18, 2021 06:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Thanks. Wonder if it's also true that more March Madness this month, Fewer babies in late Dec

Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Our Conjugal Class Divide

Kay Hymowitz


https://americancompass.org/essays/our-conjugal-class-divide/?




2. Building Staff Co-Regulation to Support Healthy Relationships in Youth: A Guide for Practitioners


https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/building-staff-co-regulation-support-healthy-relationships-youth-guide-practitioners




3. Netflix series asks couples with up to $35,000 saved: ‘Marriage or Mortgage’? You know where I stand.


Michelle Singletary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/05/netflix-marriage-mortgage-series/




4. Chinese Official Proposes Government ‘Training’ Prior to Marriage


FRANCES MARTEL


https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/03/03/chinese-official-proposes-government-training-prior-marriage/


OR

Lawmaker suggests making relationship and marriage education a compulsory course in universities


Chen Xi


https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1217727.shtml





5. Christians and the Future of Marriage: A Conversation with Sociologist Mark Regnerus

 

https://albertmohler.com/2021/03/10/mark-regnerus





6. When a Woman Says Yes


John Cuddeback


https://life-craft.org/when-a-woman-says-yes/





7. We know the pandemic is affecting working moms—but how is that affecting kids?


CLAIRE TRAGESER

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/pandemic-affecting-working-moms-but-how-is-that-affecting-kids-coronavirus





8. Budget debate: New programme to help families and couples with marital woes


Theresa Tan


https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/budget-debate-new-programme-to-help-families-and-couples-with-marital-woes





9. In a happy, long-lasting relationship? That could help you live a healthy and long life.


Marta Zaraska

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/long-lasting-relationships-and-health/2021/03/05/f9778412-7531-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html




10. The lost year: What the pandemic costs teenagers.

 Alec MacGillis in Pro Publica


https://www.propublica.org/article/the-lost-year-what-the-pandemic-cost-teenagers



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bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. A silver lining: Family engagement in a post-pandemic world

AEI, Monday, March 8, 2021 | 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET

https://www.aei.org/events/a-silver-lining-family-engagement-in-a-post-pandemic-world/?



2. Relational Authority: An Invitation to Simply Be

By Chaplain Seher Siddiqee

https://www.springtideresearch.org/post/relational-authority-seher?



3. The perils of parenting in the screen age

Breda O'Brien

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-perils-of-parenting-in-the-screen-age-1.4495983




4. Marriage and Divorce Decline During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Five States

Wendy Manning, Krista Payne


https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tdfvc/




5. Care for children by caring for parents, says neuroscience

Nim Tottenham of Columbia University

https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/early-childhood-development/neuroscience-parental-influence-shape-our-experiences/




6. We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births Than Usual This Year

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/opinion/coronavirus-baby-bust.html?




7. My nest is empty, but the stuff remains. Why is decluttering so emotionally fraught?

Bonnie Miller Rubin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/decluttering-emotional-response/2021/03/02/94080ab6-5443-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html




8. ISU Extension offers Farm Couple Getaways

https://www.dglobe.com/business/agriculture/6910582-ISU-Extension-offers-Farm-Couple-Getaways




9. We Are Real Parents, Too: Our Adoption Story

BY MARIANA AND ALFREDO

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/category/marriage/




10. ‘The Marriage Pact’ and the risks we take with data

BY CYNTHIA RUDIN

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article249546103.html




11. Marriage and divorce during the pandemic

Angela Davis and Katie Moritz

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2021/03/04/davis-marriage-and-divorce-during-the-pandemic



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Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Median Age at Last Birth

Lisa Carlson and Karen Benjamin Guzzo

https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/carlson-guzzo-median-age-last-birth-fp-21-05.html




2. Best & Worst States to Raise a Family

Adam McCann

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-raise-a-family/31065#




3. COMMUNICATING NEWSWORTHY SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

https://www.nap.edu/resource/sbs/interactive/




4. The role of families in human flourishing: A conversation with James Heckman

Katharine B. Stevens | AEI web event

https://www.aei.org/events/the-role-of-families-in-human-flourishing-a-conversation-with-james-heckman/?

OR


Stop Spreading Myths about Child Welfare

By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY & SARAH A. FONT

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/stop-spreading-myths-about-child-welfare/?




5. Understanding the Roots of Youth Anxiety

IFS webinar with Professor Joe Davis





6. Two Ways Stress Makes it Hard to be a Supportive Partner
 
by Lisa A. Neff and Hannah C. Williamson

https://spsp.org/news-center/blog/neff-williamson-relationship-stressors




7. How to cope with squabbling siblings: Five expert tips on handling competitive children

Studies have found conflicts can happen up to eight times an hour. But parents can help

Jessica Grose

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/parenting/how-to-cope-with-squabbling-siblings-five-expert-tips-on-handling-competitive-children-1.4482081





8. Stable Families Are Helping Protect Kids From Lockdown-Induced Depression And Suicide

Glenn T. Stanton




9. Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Marriage and Divorce Decisions

Chandrayee Chatterjee

https://www.thecgo.org/people/chandrayee-chatterjee/




10. Marriage & divorce amid pandemic: Couples’ challenges abound

DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer

https://www.columbian.com/news/2021/feb/22/marriage-divorce-amid-pandemic-couples-challenges-abound/




11. Men, Madness and Marriage in 19th-Century France

Jessie Hewitt

https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2021/02/22/men-madness-and-marriage-19th-century-france




12. Rituals within dating relationships play a meaningful role in a couple’s commitment to get married, study suggests

by Beth Ellwood

https://www.psypost.org/2021/02/rituals-within-dating-relationships-play-a-meaningful-role-in-a-couples-commitment-to-get-married-study-suggests-59708




This could be the image this week  https://encyclopediavirginia.org/4414hpr-72612cd388a97ab/



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Bill


Candidates for Friday Five

1. ‘Dearest Sweetheart’: The passion and poignancy of wartime love letters

Gillian Brockell

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/14/war-love-letters-valentines-day/



2. Recent Impact Findings from Demonstrations Serving Noncustodial Parents

 Elaine Sorensen

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/blog/2021/02/recent-impact-findings-demonstrations-serving-noncustodial-parents




3. Swipe Right for Love

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/swipe-right-for-love/



4. The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest

ARTHUR C. BROOKS

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/02/falling-in-love-wont-make-you-happy/617989/?



5. ELEVATE: Taking Your Relationship to the Next Level

https://www.extension.iastate.edu/humansciences/elevate



6. Why the US is eyeing a $300 monthly child benefit

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55986366




7. What does the declining U.S. fertility rate say about housing sales, Social Security and college?

 Lois M. Collins

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/2/13/22278256/how-drop-in-us-utah-fertility-affects-social-security-economy-education-housing-wealth-health




8. DSU students, staff express why love languages are important

Rachel Lords

https://dixiesunnews.com/news/articles/2021/02/12/dsu-students-staff-express-why-love-languages-are-important/




9. Study Suggests Link Between DNA and Marriage Satisfaction in Newlyweds

U of A psychologist Anastasia Makhanova

https://news.uark.edu/articles/55988/study-suggests-link-between-dna-and-marriage-satisfaction-in-newlyweds




10. How to Become Positive Marriage Role Models

  Laura Guida

https://blog.prepare-enrich.com/2021/02/how-to-become-positive-marriage-role-models/




11. Faculty Marriage Stories

 LILLY CARMAN

https://www.tkc.edu/admissions/blog/faculty-marriage-stories/




12. National Caregivers Day – February 19, 2021

https://nationaltoday.com/national-caregivers-day/


Thanks.
Bill


Candidates for Friday Five

1. How Love Can Help Your Child Become More Compassionate

MARYAM ABDULLAH 

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_love_can_help_your_child_become_more_compassionate




2. No ‘divorce boom’ in sight

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/no-divorce-boom-in-sight/




3. China launches match-making campaign as marriage and birth rates drop

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/china-launches-match-making-campaign-as-marriage-and-birth-rates-drop-121021100552_1.html




4. Marriage Advice From Kindergarteners

Sarah Dosmann

https://milwaukeemom.com/love-relationships/advice-from-children/




5. Love Letters From the Past Introduce Vermont Siblings to Their Long-Gone Grandparents

By DAN BOLLES

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/love-letters-from-the-past-introduce-vermont-siblings-to-their-long-gone-grandparents/Content?oid=32292857




6. Queen Victoria’s wedding ring – a symbol of the passionate marriage she enjoyed with Prince Albert

By Elizabeth Jane Timms

https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/history-blogs/queen-victorias-wedding-ring-a-symbol-of-the-passionate-marriage-she-enjoyed-with-prince-albert-155665/




7. Free Access to Marriage Records on MyHeritage This Valentine’s Day

 By Esther

https://blog.myheritage.com/2021/02/free-access-to-marriage-records-on-myheritage-this-valentines-day/




8. Strengthening Families, Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/topic/strengthening-families-healthy-marriage-responsible-fatherhood




9. ACF (from 2010) 
http://web.archive.org/web/20100527095004/https://hhsu.learning.hhs.gov/communities/folders.asp?iFolderID=18965



10. How to really listen to what someone you care about is saying



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/really-listen-someone-care-saying/?WT.mc_id=e_DM1327370&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_365_New_THURSDAY_2021&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_365_New_THURSDAY_202120210121&utm_campaign=DM1327370




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Bill


Candidates for Friday Five

1. Family Strengthening Research: FY 2019

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/family-strengthening-research-fy-2019




2. What “baby bust”? New and soon-to-be parents on choosing to have kids in dark times.

Chris Chafin, Vox

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22231370/covid-coronavirus-pandemic-pregnancy-babies




3. The gift of the COVID-19 pandemic: more playtime with dad

Paul Ramchandani of the University of Cambridge, UK

https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/child-development/positive-influence-fathers-playtime-during-pandemic/




4. ‘Honey, I’m home – all the time:’ Pandemic life for married couples can lead to sadness, anger

https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2021/01/28/-honey-i-m-home-all-the-time-pandemic-life-for-married-couples-can-lead-to-sadness-anger




5. 'Nobody wants to talk about death': Erin author doesn't want you to wait to write down your dying wishes

Alexandra Heck

https://www.orangeville.com/whatson-story/10286810--nobody-wants-to-talk-about-death-erin-author-doesn-t-want-you-to-wait-to-write-down-your-dying-wishes/



6. UC Davis study finds that the pandemic has impacted Latina mothers both financially and psychologically

https://theaggie.org/2021/02/01/uc-davis-study-finds-that-the-pandemic-has-impacted-latina-mothers-both-financially-and-psychologically/



7. Joe Biden Says That Sometimes a Marriage Has to "Be 70/30" in Order to Thrive

MURPHY MORONEY

https://www.popsugar.com/family/joe-jill-biden-on-how-theyve-kept-their-marriage-strong-48145615




8. Marriage and Family Therapists’ Reporting of Telehealth Use on Practice Websites during COVID-19: A Linguistic Analysis

Thomas Bischoff ,Kevin Hynes,Rachel Tambling &Alexia Kingzette

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01926187.2021.1877209




9. Opinion: Does bipartisanship matter more than helping kids?

Opinion by 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/does-bipartisanship-matter-more-than-helping-kids/2021/02/03/0ad11926-6664-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html




10. Ep. 77-Sliding vs Deciding in Relationships with Dr. Scott Stanley


You Winning Life


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-winning-life/id1473652133?i=1000504630792




11. FIVE REASONS TEEN GIRLS STOP TALKING TO THEIR DADS

CHRIS OWNBY


https://firstthings.org/five-reasons-teen-girls-stop-talking-to-their-dads/?




12. Far away, so close: Negotiating relationships during COVID-19

By Laurie Meyers

https://ct.counseling.org/2021/01/far-away-so-close-negotiating-relationships-during-covid-19/



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Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Is Marriage Becoming Irrelevant?

BY JEFFREY M. JONES

https://news.gallup.com/poll/316223/fewer-say-important-parents-married.aspx




2. A National Agenda for Children’s Mental Health

Authors: Jessica Dym Bartlett, Brandon Stratford

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/a-national-agenda-for-childrens-mental-health




3. Renewal and Mission of Hope

Susan Barth  

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/renewal-and-mission-of-hope/




4. 2021 NCFR Conference Call for Proposals

Submission Due March 1, 2021

https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-2021/call-for-proposals#instructions




5. Family Strengthening Research: FY 2019

OPRE/ACF

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/family-strengthening-research-fy-2019

OR

Final Cross-site Analysis of the 2015 Cohort of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees: Opportunity to Provide Input on Research and Dissemination Priorities

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/final-cross-site-analysis-2015-cohort-healthy-marriage-and-responsible-fatherhood




6. Can the ‘Two-Sided Marriage’ Rebalance China’s Patriarchal Families?

Zhao Chunlan

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006740/can-the-two-sided-marriage-rebalance-chinas-patriarchal-families%3F


OR

South Korea’s baby boost for married couples excludes nontraditional families

Jason Strother  


OR

Researchers find promoting marriage is the key to Asia’s demographic woes

Concern about chronically low fertility is increasing

Shannon Roberts





7. The Myth That Gets Men Out of Doing Chores

They’re just as good at recognizing messes as women—they just don’t feel the same pressure to clean them up.

JOE PINSKER

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/boys-men-messy-chores/617845/




8.  https://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/tool-kit



9. Confirmation bias and methodology in social science: an editorial

 Walter R Schumm

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01494929.2021.1872859




10. Unintended Births: Variation Across Social and Demographic Characteristics

Karen Benjamin Guzzo 

https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/guzzo-unintended-births-variation-social-demographic-characteristics-fp-21-02.html 

OR

Thirty Years of Change in Unintended Births

Karen Benjamin Guzzo 



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Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Healthy Relationship Education Training

https://www.extension.iastate.edu/humansciences/relationship-education




2. “Psychological Flexibility” May Be Key To Good Relationships Between Couples And Within Families

Emma Young  

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/12/21/psychological-flexibility-may-be-key-to-good-relationships-between-couples-and-within-families/



3. An Introduction to Program Design and Implementation Characteristics of Federally Funded Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Grantees

Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti, Mindy E. Scott, Julie Blechman, and Deja Logan

https://mastresearchcenter.org/mast-center-research/an-introduction-to-program-design-and-implementation-characteristics-of-federally-funded-healthy-marriage-and-relationship-education-grantees/




4. WEBINAR Replay: Does Marriage Still Matter? A Current Perspective

https://www.dibbleinstitute.org/event/webinar-does-marriage-still-matter-a-current-perspective/




5.Final Cross-site Analysis of the 2015 Cohort of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees: Opportunity to Provide Input on Research and Dissemination Priorities

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/final-cross-site-analysis-2015-cohort-healthy-marriage-and-responsible-fatherhood




6. Caring dads probably came first, before providing dads

Lee T. Gettler of the University of Notre Dame  

https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/child-development/nurturing-fatherhood-rooted-male-biology/




7. The sex recession: how Britain lost its libido in lockdown

Rebecca Reid

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/sex-recession-britain-lost-libido-lockdown/




8. The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Call to Action for Couple and Family Therapists

Shalonda Kelly  Gihane Jérémie‐Brink  Anthony L. Chambers  Mia A. Smith‐Bynum

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/famp.12614




9. Stop Saying You're 'Happily Married'

EMMA PATTEE

https://www.elle.com/life-love/a35227684/stop-saying-youre-happily-married/




10. Why Marriage And Divorce Rates Are Dropping During The Pandemic

Naomi Cahn

https://www.forbes.com/sites/naomicahn/2021/01/15/why-marriage-and-divorce-rates-are-dropping-during-the-pandemic/?sh=4eba970356c2




11.Child Maltreatment 2019

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2019.pdf




12. How Marriages Affected Women in Ancient Rome

Robert Garland, Ph.D., Colgate University  

https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/how-marriages-affected-women-in-ancient-rome/




13. Marriage Matters virtual conference offers real help to couples

Eric Pilgrim

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/386982/marriage-matters-virtual-conference-offers-real-help-couples


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Bill