Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs May Best Support Outcomes by Addressing Hispanic Families’ Diverse Stressors

Elizabeth Wildsmith, Yiyu Chen




2. Impact of Direct Cash Benefits to Low-Income Families Can Be Far-Reaching

BY AMANDA ABRAMS




3. Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education for High School Students: The Longer-Term Impacts of Relationship Smarts PLUS in Georgia

OPRE/ACF/HHS





4. The case for a Commission on Boys and Men: Will Washington state lead the way?

Richard V. Reeves




5. Should I Try to Work It Out?: A Guidebook for Individuals and Couples Who Have Been Thinking about Divorce

Alan Hawkins , Tamara Fackrell , Steven Harris





6. Discernment Counseling




7. Researchers: The legalization of marijuana comes at a hidden cost to our young people

By Diana Fishbein, Linda Richter and Zili Sloboda




8. Some Good News on the Family Front

Kay S. Hymowitz




9. Married men are healthier than everyone else. Here’s why they get the best end of the deal.

BY LIBBY RICHARDS, MELISSA FRANKS, ROSIE SHROUT AND THE CONVERSATION




10. What Emotional Neglect Looks Like in a Marriage





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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. How do Teens’ Romantic Relationship Skills, Knowledge, and Attitudes Change with Age?

OPRE Research




2. Winter 2023 Issue: Parenting Education

NCFR


OR

Zippy's Video of the Week: The Key to Happiness




3. How too much math homework help from parents can backfire

By Jiawen Wu and Eva M. Pomerantz




4. 2023 NARME Summit Presenter Application







5. Their Mothers Were Teenagers. They Didn’t Want That for Themselves.

Jason DeParle, NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/teen-pregnancies-child-poverty.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUYAibIRp87oxCAwODVzbM6j3n1LSWODD1CzuAZRpCH5UrXebslZ8c2237TYu59B4IVZa44yP5DbQsqQhO0o5CAldNULXVl94niBiY9hp7EGO1m-m6vZDHlJaJxmOHj50zXaTS8DKHPwDZ2clYe1Jhhdlug23wDz76UUbImn4kjgopyQ8xyVjwCZyKVv_L3CR0YONmOah7U6QZeSPgOEHiI3obas-RcBV0UXVHWT3p_43I-6MdfPb4UOKX4KB0gf6nukB7w5iddKEPym9T1HnBktQM&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare




6. Relationship conversations: New skills training to support relationships

OnePlusOne




7. Help Me Grow: Strengthening Families and Supporting Caregiver Goals

 Cailin O’Connor and Charlyn Harper Browne,  Center for the Study of Social Policy  





8. USU Extension co-sponsors Utah Marriage Celebration






9. First Things First: How to start talking with your spouse again

Lauren Hall





10. 10 Practices to Keep Your Marriage Strong





11. Webinar on the Witherspoon Institute’s New Book, Marriage and the Public Good



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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. 

WEBINAR: Love Notes: A Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that Actually Prevents Teen Pregnancy

January 11, 2022 1:00pm Pacific

In this webinar, Dr. Anita Barbee will discuss the results from the original random control trial in Louisville testing the efficacy of Love Notes. She will focus on how Love Notes actually reduces the chance of pregnancy for youth by 46% over those in the control group 12 months after instruction. (These results were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Family Relations.)

REGISTER



2. The Skills You Need for Happier Relationships With Family

BY FLORA JIN





3. Social Media: Tips for Child Welfare Workers

Child Welfare Information Gateway


OR

Social Media: Tips for Foster Parents and Caregivers






4. The Population 65 Years and Older: 2021





5. NHSA Brief - Fatherhood Edition December



OR

Fatherhood Advocacy Toolkit: Navigating Support Through the Perinatal Period






6. Authoritative parenting: Balancing discipline with warmth and support

By George W. Holden




7. How ‘love languages’ has been helping couples for 30 years






8. Loneliness is a public health emergency we can’t afford to ignore

BY LANCE ROBERTSON





9. Premarital Education

Paul Engstrom


OR

Pre-marriage education provided to 1.5M Turkish citizens since 2013




10. 3 Keys to Managing Stress in Your Marriage





11. The family consequences of job insecurity: Fertility and marriage

Conchita D'Ambrosio,  Anthony Lepinteur,  Andrew Clark





12. Impacts of healthy marriage and relationship education for expectant and new mothers

Ankita Patnaik, Robert G. Wood, Kathryn Gonzalez



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Candidates for Friday Five # 449

1. Marriage & Manliness in Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”

Scott Yenor


https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/12/marriage-manliness-tolstoy-anna-karenina-scott-yenor.html




2. How Family Background Influences Student Achievement

Can schools narrow the gap?

By Anna J. Egalite





3. Participate in a Couples Study

The Family Institute at Northwestern University





4. Making Family Hubs accessible for parents with disabilities




5. How to Be Patient in a Relationship (60+ Ways to Improve)




6. Military Families Are Facing Their Own Housing Crisis

Kimberly Gladden-Eversley, CNET







8. 3 Big Blind Spots We Have About Love






9. Nixon’s Plan to Fight Poverty and Promote Marriage






10. Countering Marriage Myths




11. International Marriage Friendship Club: The Last Gathering

By David Yamaguchi





12. When the classroom is in the basement: More Black families in Pittsburgh embrace the choice of home education





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Bill

Candidates for Friday Five

1. America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2022

U.S. Census Bureau


OR





2. Strategies Programs Use to Help More Dads Participate in Fatherhood Services

Children's Bureau Express




3.  Impact of a relationship-based intervention, Love Notes, on teen pregnancy prevention 

Anita P. Barbee 1 | Michael R. Cunningham2 | Becky F. Antle 1 | Cheri N. Langley1




4. Self-awareness can improve relationships. Here are tips to build it.


Advice by Katherine Kam





5. Study finds fatherhood rewires dads’ brains to boost empathy






6. American Renewal / Chapters





7. Study finds that experiences of daily stress decrease as people age

Mary Campbell, PSU




8. Australia’s Largest Men’s Health Study Shows What’s Working, and Where Gaps Lie in Men’s Uptake of Mental Health Services

 Clement WongKarlee O’DonnellJennifer Prattley, Brendan Quinn, Rebecca Jenkinson, Rukhsana Tajin, Bosco Rowland




9. Strengthening the Implementation and Evaluation of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth: Considerations from Four Recent Impact Studies


OR





10.  Characteristics of Single Adults in the U.S., 2022 

Author: Gabrielle Juteau P







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Candidates for Friday Five

1. A comparative perspective on policies to support single-parent families




2. 'Watching People Grow Into Their Best Selves': Advancing Family Coaching & Education

Family Science Impact: Q&A with NCFR Member Lisa Krause, M.A., CFLE





3. 4 ways to design a disability-friendly future

 Meghan Hussey




4. How the Pandemic Affected U.S. Birth Rates—and What Comes Next

MELISSA S. KEARNEY AND PHILLIP LEVINE





5. Spouse or Significant Other Wellbeing Course: Supporting Public Safety Personnel Families

The Vanier Institute of the Family






6. Video Recordings of RECS 2022, November 2022 http://recsconference.net/2022videos.html

Exploring Evaluations of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programming


OR

Impact Findings From the Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services (STREAMS) Evaluation





7. Informing parents in your community about child development: please take part in our survey!




8. Having positive conversations about relationship difficulties: a new guide for local areas





9. How to practice ‘gentle parenting’ — without losing discipline

By Mary Beth Gahan





10. How to Take the Stress Out of Family Gatherings

 Rachel Ehmke





11. Marriage Is a Team Sport


Arthur C. Brooks




12. Marriage and the Public Good: a book pointing the way forward to renewing a culture of marriage





13. African American fathers figure prominently in preventing sons’ depression, aggression



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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. How to help young kids: Give their parents cash



OR

How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

Hawwa Muhammad





2.  Many Doctors Think My Daughter Shouldn't Be Alive. They're Wrong | Opinion

JASON LAW, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, HUMAN COALITION




3. Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty

Dana Thomson, Renee Ryberg




4. Tomorrow I’ll Be Kind Inspires Little Readers to Make the World a Better Place

by Jennifer Garry
 

OR

An Attitude of Gratitude: 17 Books That Show Kids What It Means to Be Thankful

by Dena McMurdie





5. Some good, bad and ugly in new federal “child welfare” data






6. Are millennials saving marriage?





7. Some – but only some – of the rise in divorce looks real

Harry Benson





8. First impressions are everything when it comes to dating, study shows

John Anderer





9. America’s Way Forward on Marriage



OR

The Witherspoon Institute publishes the second edition of Marriage and the Public Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2022 By JOHN DAVID CORWIN




10. Episode 109: Deseret News national politics editor on what the American Family Survey reveals about family, marriage

By Sarah Jane Weaver




11. How to Predict and Prevent Divorce Before Marriage

12. MOVING IN TOGETHER DOESN’T MATCH THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF MARRIAGE, BUT WHY?

JULIA CARPENTER




We stayed near here two months ago, 3 days before we caught covid in Fatima. 

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Candidates for IFS Friday Five





2. NY: Montefiore Receives $3 Million Grant to Engage Fathers and Improve Child Welfare Outcomes Among Families at Risk of Substance Misuse (Press release)




3. ICUDDR Webinar Announcement 
Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)




4. The 5 Most Common Reasons People Get Divorced (& 5 Unusually Specific Ones)







5. The COVID-19 pandemic and how it affects the future of families

Elvenia Gray-Sandiford





6. Happy Marriage Helps Recovery After Heart Attack

Written by Marlene Busko




OR

Marriage in trouble? Yale study finds it could make heart attack recovery slower

American Heart Association




7. Theology course explores marriage and love

 Katie Muchnick




8. “A Man's Lot”: Marriage, Military Service, and the First World War

Cody Davis





9. Couples who 'slide' into marriage more likely to divorce


OR

Couples who marry because of family pressure 50 per cent more likely to divorce

 SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS EDITOR



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Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. Are classes on fatherhood and relationships a good use of taxpayer dollars?

Lois M. Collins


OR

Introduction to special section: Federally funded, community-based healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood program impact studies





2. 
Perspective -- Extending the reach of the CTC and TANF could do much more for American families and young children (Opinion)

EducationNC





3. FPG Policy Division Event: Policy Engagement Research versus Advocacy

10/28/2022 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM





4. Defining a culture of care for Black boys

Monday, Oct 31, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT, Online




5. The Relationship Between Child Maltreatment and Poverty

With Naomi Schaefer Riley

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM ET





6. Confident Parenting in the Digital Age





7. College students suffer more than 100 alcohol-related consequences, study finds




8. Evaluation Exploring How Course Modality Influences the Effectiveness of the R3 Academy for Couples





9. The Year Everyone Got Married

In 1942, matrimony was a national obsession. How would those weddings change America?





10. New guidelines invite engaged couples to meet Christ, embrace the fullness of marriage

Father Patrick Briscoe



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Bill