Candidates for Friday Five

1. 8 tips and truths for parenting young children and staying strong as a couple

https://toucantogether.com/blog/8-tips-and-truths-for-parenting-young-children-and-staying-strong-as-a-couple




2. NCFR Call for Papers — The Science of Families: Nurturing Hope, Happiness, & Health

https://www.ncfr.org/news/ncfr-call-papers-science-families-nurturing-hope-happiness-health



3. Implementing Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs with Couples


Sydney J. Briggs, Mindy E. Scott, and Deja Logan


https://mastresearchcenter.org/mast-center-research/implementing-healthy-marriage-and-relationship-education-programs-with-couples/




4. What workism is doing to parents

Lyman Stone and Laurie DeRose | The Atlantic

https://www.aei.org/articles/what-workism-is-doing-to-parents/




5. Four Ways New Moms Can Get Through the Rest of the Pandemic

MARIAH FLYNN

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_ways_new_moms_can_get_through_the_rest_of_the_pandemic?



6. How To Teach Kids About Empathy

https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/resources-for-families/just-like-me




7. Healthy Marriage Grantees: Snapshots on Changes in Outcomes for Clients Over Time

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/opre/Healthy%20marriage%202015%20outcomes%20508.pdf



8. 

UK National Marriage Week – ‘Naked Marriage’

https://marriage-week.org.uk/

OR

The Wedding is just one day but Marriage is for a Lifetime

Jonathan Williams



9. First Marriage Rate in the U.S., 2019

 Leslie Reynolds

https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/reynolds-first-marriage-rate-2019-fp-21-09.html




10. Want to improve your child’s math skills – read them a book

Source: David Purpura, purpura@purdue.edu, @davidjpurpura

http://www.wbiw.com/2021/05/05/want-to-improve-your-childs-math-skills-read-them-a-book/




11. No Country for New Babies

By Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/amid-pandemic-u-s-birth-rate-falls-to-century-low.html




12. Korea moving to embrace diverse family types

Bahk Eun-ji

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/05/119_308155.html




13. With love on the rocks, marriage counselling booms in China

https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/living/2021/05/06/with-love-on-the-rocks-marriage-counselling-booms-in-china




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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Hungary shows what effective family policy can look like

Harry Benson

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/hungary-shows-what-effective-family-policy-can-look-like/




2. Advertising & Exhibitor Options

NARME's 10th Anniversary and Annual Summit, July 21-23, San Antonio,TX

http://www.narme.org/conferences/10th-annual-narme-summit/advertising-exhibitor-options/



3. An Evaluation of the ELEVATE Program for Couples: Considering Vulnerabilities and Relationship Length

Julianne McGill Francesca Adler‐Baeder Chelsea Garneau‐Rosner

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fare.12502




4. Parents more lenient about alcohol with teens who experience puberty early

Katie Bohn, PSU News





5. Walking with a partner is great but might slow you down

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2021/04/28/walking_with_a_partner_is_great_but_might_slow_you_down/



6. What’s in Biden’s American Families Plan — and does it meet experts’ expectations and hopes?

By Lois M. Collins

https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/27/22405525/joe-biden-american-family-plan-paid-leave-child-care-tax-credit-education-mike-lee-mitt-romney-utah



7. They fell in love after WWII and Japanese incarceration. At 98, he’s published tribute to his beloved

HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-28/amid-covid-wwii-veteran-shares-marriage-story-new-book




8. Book of the week: ‘An American Marriage’ is a look into a relationship colliding with the effects of mass incarceration

Jillian Gallagher, Contributing Writer

https://quchronicle.com/73002/arts-and-life/book-of-the-week-3/




9. Six out of 10 young Koreans think marriage unnecessary

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/04/703_307718.html




10. Opposite-sex marriages: average (mean) age at first marriage by sex in England and Wales, 1998 to 2017

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriagecohabitationandcivilpartnerships/adhocs/13189oppositesexmarriagesaveragemeanageatfirstmarriagebysexinenglandandwales1998to2017


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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Which Relationship Service Fits Best? Teaching the Difference Between Relationship Education and Couples Therapy

Brandon K. Burr Daniel S. Hubler

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fare.12417



2. An Evaluation of the ELEVATE Program for Couples: Considering Vulnerabilities and Relationship Length

Julianne McGill Francesca Adler‐Baeder Chelsea Garneau‐Rosner

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fare.12502




3. Guilty secrets: How the COVID-19 pandemic helped some middle class families

Hannah Van Drie and Morgan Welch

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/04/15/guilty-secrets-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-helped-some-middle-class-families/?




4. A sense of humor, giving space, trying to listen: Advice from 73 years of marriage

Juan SiliezarHarvard Staff Writer

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/after-73-years-of-marriage-their-advice-remains-the-same/




5. Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood Remain Prevalent Among Older Populations

BENJAMIN GURRENTZ AND YERIS MAYOL-GARCIA
 
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/love-and-loss-among-older-adults.html?




6. To Keep Women in the Workforce, Men Need to Do More at Home

by Daniel L. Carlson, Richard J. Petts, and Joanna Pepin

https://hbr.org/2021/04/to-keep-women-in-the-workforce-men-need-to-do-more-at-home






7. Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here's What the Research Says

LYNN BERGER

https://time.com/5953372/birth-order-personality-traits/




8. Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities

Lori A. Legano, Larry W. Desch, Stephen A. Messner, Sheila Idzerda, Emalee G. Flaherty, COUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT and COUNCIL ON CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/04/16/peds.2021-050920




9.  Parenting Time and Child Support: Information for Fatherhood Programs and Fathers

 Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. and Anne Byrne, M.A. Center for Policy Research

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



10. Has the Pandemic Caused More Breakups?

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/has-the-pandemic-caused-more-breakups/



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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Using Conceptual Models to Tailor Programming on Adulthood Preparation Subjects to Pregnant and Parenting Youth

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/using-conceptual-models-tailor-programming-adulthood-preparation-subjects-pregnant-and




2. Teaching well-being at scale: An intervention study

David B. Yaden, Jennifer Claydon, Meghan Bathgate, Belinda Platt, Laurie R. Santos

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249193

OR

In Pursuit of Happiness


By S. Christopher Michaels

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/in_pursuit_of_happiness.html




3.  The State of America’s Children® 2021

https://www.childrensdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/The-State-of-Americas-Children-2021.pdf




4. 8 States Join Learning Network Supporting Child And Family Well-Being Throughout The Pandemic

https://www.nga.org/news/press-releases/8-states-join-learning-network-supporting-child-and-family-well-being-throughout-the-pandemic/




5. I'm a Dad and a Family Mediator: Here Are 5 Tips for Being a Better Communicator

Jeffrey Owens

https://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/advice/im-a-mom-and/im-a-dad-and-a-family-mediator-here-are-tips-for-being-a-better-communicator/



6. April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/preventing/preventionmonth/




7. Study suggests parental warmth protects troubled teens from psychopathic features and antisocial behavior

by Eric W. Dolan

https://www.psypost.org/2021/04/study-suggests-parental-warmth-protects-troubled-teens-from-psychopathic-features-and-antisocial-behavior-60434




8. 10 Top Books To Learn How To Rejuvenate American Families

Scott Yenor

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/13/10-top-books-to-learn-how-to-rejuvenate-american-families/




9. Stanford study identifies another explanation for the ‘marriage premium’

KRYSTEN CRAWFORD





10. Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea

Facebook is working on a new version of its popular app that’s targeted at children under 13.

By Rebecca Heilweil

https://www.vox.com/recode/22385570/instagram-for-kids-youtube-facebook-messenger





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Candidates for Friday Five

1. About Family Science


OR


More About Family Science: History & Name

https://www.ncfr.org/about/what-family-science/history-name#History




2. Key to a thriving, happy romance? Plenty of playfulness, say researchers

https://www.studyfinds.org/playfulness-key-to-thriving-happy-love-life-relationship/




3. “Disconnection During a Pandemic: Connecting During Quarantine, and Beyond”

 Heather Chamberland, Psy.D., AMFT, LCP

https://www.family-institute.org/sites/default/files/csi-chamberland-disconnection-during-pandemic.pdf




4. July 21 – 23 – NARME Summit, San Antonio, Texas

https://narme.regfox.com/2021-narme-summit




5. Ten ways to protect your child against bad experiences

Jennifer Hays-Grudo and Amanda Sheffield Morris of Oklahoma State University

https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/child-development/how-to-protect-your-child-against-adversity-pace-methods/




6. Implementing Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs with Couples

Sydney J. Briggs, Mindy E. Scott, and Deja Logan

https://mastresearchcenter.org/mast-center-research/implementing-healthy-marriage-and-relationship-education-programs-with-couples/




7. The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days

Department of Health and Social Care

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-best-start-for-life-a-vision-for-the-1001-critical-days




8. The pandemic has caused parents to slow down. Here’s how to preserve that pace.

Christine Koh

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/slow-pace-pandemic-parenting-life/2021/04/05/70808f54-917f-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html



9. Time to teach men, women how to be a better spouse

Dr Sharifa Noaman al-Emadi

https://www.gulf-times.com/story/687796/Time-to-teach-men-women-how-to-be-a-better-spouse




10. How Happy Marriages Stay Happy: 7 Signs of a Rock Solid Relationship

Virginia Pelley

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/happy-marriages-stay-happy-7-192405198.html




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Candidates for Friday Five #366 (Sweet 16 Edition)

1. COUPLE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The 67th Annual Conference of the International Commission on Couple and Family Relations (ICCFR)

https://iccfr.org/2021-conference-in-boston-usa/



2. SURVIVING THE 2020 PANDEMIC: LESSONS LEARNED ON HOW TO BEST SUPPORT OUR EI/ECSE COMMUNITIES

https://militaryfamilieslearningnetwork.org/event/85665/




3. Should Pediatricians Prescribe Kindness?

By Jill Suttie

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





4. EMOTIONAL BALANCE & CORE NEEDS IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ERA

What Matters Now

Dr. Nancy Burgoyne and Dr. Maru Torres-Gregory

https://www.family-institute.org/behavioral-health-resources/emotional-balance-core-needs-post-pandemic-era




5. CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER LAUNCHES ‘ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION’ REVIEW OF CHILDHOOD

Fiona Simpson

https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/children-s-commissioner-launches-once-in-a-generation-review-of-childhood




6. U.S. Childhood Disability Rate Up in 2019 From 2008

NATALIE A. E. YOUNG AND KATRINA CRANKSHAW


https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/united-states-childhood-disability-rate-up-in-2019-from-2008.html




7-9. Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) 2020 Conference Videos

Breakout Session

Using Formative Rapid Cycle Evaluation to Improve Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth


Breakout Session

Linking Healthy Marriage Research and Practice: Findings from the Marriage Strengthening Research and Dissemination Centers 


Breakout Session

Highlighting the Role of Fathers in Research, Practice, and Policy




10. Want a longer, healthier life? Resolve your arguments by day’s end, OSU study says

Molly Rosbach

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/want-longer-healthier-life-resolve-your-arguments-day%E2%80%99s-end-osu-study-says



11. Click tries to reestablish Ohio Family Stability Commission

Alexa Scherzinger

https://advertiser-tribune.com/news/310904/click-tries-to-reestablish-ohio-family-stability-commission/




12. Jane Austen’s Vision of a Happy Marriage

By Eleanor Bourg Nicholson  





13. New pilot to help newlyweds build happy, healthy marriages | Video

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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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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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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