Candidates for Friday Five

1. Achieving Improved Child and Family Well-Being Through Prevention, A Call for System Adaptation

Dr. Dana Weiner   Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago





2. Relationships & Rituals: How Young People Are Handling the 2020 Holidays






 Brian Calhoun, Jason Williams, Mark Greenberg, Celene Domitrovich, Michael Russell, and Diana Fishbein  in Frontiers in Psychology




4.New American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for the First Time Provide Data on Three Time Periods That Don’t Overlap

NICOLE SCANNIELLO

 
OR

U.S. Marriage and Divorce Rates Declined in Last 10 Years











6. Why Some Families Laugh Together and Others Fight





8. THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE ROYAL FOUNDATION RELEASE THE #5BIGINSIGHTS IN THE BIGGEST EVER STUDY ON THE EARLY YEARS





9. Pandemic divorces are tragic. The data tell a more complete story

By the Deseret News Editorial Board




10. The good, the bad and the lonely: how coronavirus changed Australian family life

Megan Carroll, Diana Warren, Jennifer A. Baxter, Kelly Hand





11. New program for African American couples leads to stronger relationships, improved health






12. $119 million in Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grants awarded by HHS’ Administration for Children and Families




Thanks!
Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Developments in Child and Family Policy in the EU in 2019

European Large Families Confederation




2. Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs

OPRE, ACF





3. For Hard Conversations, Families Fall Into Four Categories

By Kelsey Crowe and Juli Fraga





4. Children’s play in the COVID-19 pandemic

Chiel van der Veen, Mireille Smits-Van Der Nat, Femke Van Der Wilt and Elizabeth Wynberg  of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands



OR


10 ways to support children’s emotional well-being during COVID-19

Child Trends  






4. Relationship Quality at home has a positive impact on Work Engagement

by Mandi Smith






5. U.S. Census Bureau Statistics Paint a Detailed Portrait of the Changing American Family

DERICK MOORE
 




6. Local military families have access to a new support resource

By Angela Benitez





7. No sex no marriage: why Japan has so many sex-free marriages and why a rising number of people want to stay single


OR

'I do' gives way to 'I don't' as marriages plummet even before pandemic



https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-do-gives-way-to-i-don-t-as-marriages-plummet-even-before-pandemic-20201128-p56iqg.html




8. Saint Francis Launches Fatherhood Initiative After Grant

Published by Nikki Ratay






9. Half of the undergraduate student body completes Marriage Pact, almost 3,000 receive matches

FLORA MENG


OR

Yale students take a shot at love with ‘Marriage Pact’ questionnaire






10. How Many Years of Life Will a Bad Relationship Cost You?

Mark Travers Ph.D.






11. Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment

 

Request; Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures and Additional Data Collection (New Collection)


A Notice by the Children and Families Administration on 11/30/2020






12. Giving thanks can keep marriages going

Aaron Hale




Thanks
Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Family Conflict Is Normal; It’s the Repair That Matters

DIANA DIVECHA





2.  Strengthening Families Legislation Introduced
 Strengthening Families for Success Act of 2020





3.A Way Forward for Working Parents

 Daisy Dowling





4. Characteristics and Financial Circumstances of TANF Recipients, Fiscal Year 2019





5. Emotional adaptation to relationship dissolution in parents and non-parents: A new conceptual model and measure

Abigail Millings, Shannon L. Hirst, Fuschia Sirois, Catherine Houlston





6. November 30–December 3, 2020: National Research Conference on Early Childhood (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families)










8. Managing Work-Family Caregiving Conflict for The Workplace of the Future

P Dombrowski-Wilson  





9. Political Divide: How To Stay Civil With Family Members This Holiday Season





10. The Science of Families: Nurturing Hope, Happiness, & Health




11. Marriage-to-Divorce Ratio in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2019

Bowling Green State University  National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR) 

Leslie Reynolds





12. What’s the number 1 way to change your marriage? Today the Rosbergs share lessons learned from divorced people and what they say they would have done differently.




13. Five Programs, Five Implementation Experiences: Resources for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Grantees




Have a great Thanksgiving

Bill


















































Candidates for Friday Five

1. ‘The Origins of You’: A book event with Jay Belsky and Terrie E. Moffitt

Ian Rowe and Naomi Schaefer Riley | AEI web event on Friday, November 13



OR

Scott Winship on Income Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility

Banter: Episode 415





2. Ann O'Keefe Author Chat - Launching the Navy Family Support Program

Naval Historical Foundation  




3. Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens

Richard A.Settersten, et al., Elsevier  





4. Principles of excellence in Relationship Education


OR

Ensuring all children get the best start in life: A population approach to early intervention and prevention

Daryl Higgins & Adam Dean  




5. 

(Study) The reasons women in Germany are delaying motherhood






6. World Kindness Day




7. Series Webinar -- Marriage Strengthening Research (MAST) & Dissemination Center and National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
Conversation 3: Applied Research at NCHS and the Census
Webinar Date: November 19




8. USU awarded two $5 million grants for Fatherhood and Relationship Education





9. What’s Love Got to Do With a Lasting Marriage?

Shoba Sreenivasan, Ph.D., and Linda E. Weinberger, Ph.D.






10.Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs


OR

Pathways-to-Outcomes: How Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program Activities May Lead to Intended Outcomes

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/pathways-to-outcomes-how-healthy-marriage-and-relationship-education-program-activities-may-lead-to-intended-outcomes-webinar



11. Spirituality and the Lifetime Course of Mental Illness: Support for Patients, Caregivers, and Family by Faith Communities





12. In the chaos of raising a toddler there lies a path to nirvana

Psyche, professor Kurt Gray




Thanks 
Bill


Candidates for Friday Five

1. Children’s well-being indicator review, UK: 2020




2. Impacts of family structure on puberty onset in girls

by BioMed Central





3. Relationship stress and COVID top military family counseling needs

by Abraham Mahshie





4. Focusing on the family: policy issues in the Covid-19 era

Sue Shortland





5. The gap between the partisan couples is wider than ever.

BY JONATHAN EDWARDS





6. 12 Questions to Ask Your Partner Before Marriage

by Léa Rose Emery





7. Love and marriage in the time of the Coronavirus

 by Shmuely Boteach





8. How Does an Economist View the Marriage Market?

Kristie Engemann





9. U.S. Marriage and Divorce Rates by State: 2009 & 2019



OR

Coupled Households in the United States 

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/couple-households-acs-2019.html






10. IZA DP No. 13811: Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber



OR





11. First Things First: How to agree to disagree with your spouse

Julie Baumgardner





12. November Is National Adoption Month: Engaging Youth Voice in Permanency Planning

Jerry Milner, Associate Commissioner, Children’s Bureau  





Thanks. We're headed to the eastern shore for a few days of biking starting Tuesday. 

Bill


Candidates for Friday Five

1. Chronic, Low-Level Parental Conflict Contributes To Children’s Mental Health Problems

By Chrystyna D. Kouros



OR

Sort It Out campaign

A campaign to stop children being harmed by conflict between their warring parents





2. New Research Shows The Best Way to Express Gratitude to Your Loved One, And It's Easy

CARLY CASSELLA






3. Protective Factors Framework








OR


FAMILIES TACKLING TOUGH TIMES TOGETHER




 
5. COVID-19 could erase parenting gains of the last 30 years

Up Front (Brookings Institution)
Rebecca Ryan, Ariel Kalil, Susan Mayer, and Rohen Shah  





6. National Academy of Sciences Enlists Gaming Community to Boost Public Understanding of COVID-19




7. Setting the Foundation for Safe, Supportive, and Equitable School Climates

Iris Jacob, Deborah Temkin, Rosemary Rodriguez, Obioma Okogbue, Suzanne Greenfield, Ryan Roemerman




8.Strategies to Integrate Self-Regulation into Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth
 
Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth (SARHM): Final Report





9. As holidays near, the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, putting families in a quandary about celebrations and travel





10. UCF receives $7.5 million grant to help save relationships during COVID-19
 


OR the full list

 ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OFFICE OF FAMILY ASSISTANCE

 FY 2020 HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTEES (2020 –2025)1  




11. The Hardest Fight to Have With Your Teen

Jessica Grose  





12. New online, research-based program aims to strengthen relationships


UI study focuses on keys to successful romantic relationships



13. Parents can create new Halloween traditions during pandemic




Bonus for those who scroll all the way down...



Thanks

Bill


Candidates for Friday Five

1. How to Talk to Loved Ones with Differing Political Opinions

Asia McNeil  


OR

How to repair a family rift

Pam Weintraub





2. Reframing aging in contemporary politics






3. Parents are the greatest influence on children’s learning, but how can this influence be harnessed?

Jennifer E. Lansford of Duke University  





4. How Parents Can Support Children With Special Needs During Distance Learning

 Rebecca Branstetter



OR

Lived experience of people with disabilities: Shaping policy and practice





5. Continuing Conversations: Non-Academic Career Paths for Researchers Studying Families and Relationships

Hosted by MAST Center & NCFR


OR

Special Issue Call for Papers: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Emerging Adults






6. TAKING STOCK WITH TEENS - FALL 2020 INFOGRAPHIC





7. Inspiring Change 2.0

Creating impact with evidence-based implementation





8. Lessons learned from a community crisis

By John Rogers and Cynthia Miller





9. Yes, more and more young adults are living with their parents – but is that necessarily bad?

Jeffrey Arnett  






10. ICCFR 66th annual conference, November 2020

Webinar Series: Helping Families through Separation and Divorce: Collaboration, not Confrontation, in a Plural Society

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) continues next week




2. The lost year: How the pandemic pressed pause on the world of dating

 Olivia Petter





3. Prominent Training Organization Awarded $15M in Grants to Conduct Two Family-Strengthening Projects




4. Best Practices in Relationship Education

By Sarah Hokanson





5. Improving our Understanding of How Family Strengthening Programs Can Address and Prevent Domestic Violence

BY SAMANTHA ILLANGASEKARE AND KRITI JAIN



OR

Strengthening the Implementation of Marriage and Relationship Programs (SIMR): Program Participation Update




6. Families First DC





7. The rise of ‘Zoom Towns’ in the rural west

Lisa Potter




8. New research reveals problem drinking starts at an early age

ROSS AND RUSSEL


OR

Australian males drinking during adolescence linked to riskier drinking later on, finds new report






9. Duke researchers: To improve child literacy, just text the parents

Seth Thomas Gulledge   





10. Are there government policies that will help the American family? We asked the experts

Lois M. Collins





11. New matchmaking form facilitates 1,300 possible marriages at Yale

EMILY TIAN & RAZEL SUANSING




12. Maximizing Tendency Predicts Delayed Marriage Among Japanese Adults

Itaru Ishiguro

Candidates for Friday Five

1. Building Healthy Relationships Among DC Youth: A Universal Bullying Prevention Program

Heather Steed,Yosemary Rodriguez, Emily Katz, Dominique Parris, Brandon Stratford



OR

Can Parents Prevent Bullying Among Elementary School Children?

By Bonnie Leadbeater





2. When Do Teens Feel Loved by Their Parents?

By Maryam Abdullah





3. CoupleTalk will be LIVE this October!
Join us for Five Date Nights to Build a Better Marriage!




4.  Annual Review  Tavistock Relationships




5. FAMILIES TACKLING TOUGH TIMES TOGETHER





6. Caring for Each Other



OR

Parenting during a pandemic

By Katrina Hagerty, SUBASE FFSC





7. The Top 12 Relationship Problems, According to the Experts





8. Ten ways to make life better for the middle class

Hannah Van Drie and Richard V. Reeves





9. No One Immune To The Headwinds Facing Marriage

J.P. De Gance 





10. Engaging Communities to Support Families




11. Resources From Our Parenting Partners

Parenting publications from around the U.S. and beyond




12. The pandemic proves we all should know ‘psychological first aid.’ Here are the basics.

Stacey Colino  




Thanks

Bill