Candidates for Friday Five

Their scores were then compared with their fatherhood status later in life to determine if their adolescent knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about sex, ..


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Rick Johnson 
Four things to teach your children about love
I think that love is a deep affection or attachment to something or someone. It consists of traits such as unselfishness, loyalty, devotion, tenderness, ...




2. The importance of long-term marriage for health and happiness - See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2016/02/importance-long-term-marriage-health/#sthash.0O5zdAUQ.dpuf

Deborah Carr







3. 2016 Relationship Enhancement & Filial Therapy Conference

April 8-9; Bethesda, Maryland

The 2016 Relationship Enhancement and Filial Therapy Conference -- sponsored by the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement and the Association for Filial and Relationship Enhancement Methods -- will be held April 8-9 in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference will feature workshops on play and on relationship-enhancement therapy.

To learn more and register, please visit: https://www.ncfr.org/events/calendar/2016-relationship-enhancement-and-filial-therapy-conference


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4. Cost of Family Failure 2016: £48 billion – and still rising

The 2016 update of the Relationships Foundation’s “Cost of Family Failure Index” 



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Iain Duncan Smith MP sets out Government’s vision for tackling relationship breakdown at Relate Lecture

Government,  businesses and public services all have a role to play in tackling the high levels of relationship breakdown in the UK, which are currently costing the economy £47billion every year. This is according to a new report to be launched by the UK’s leading relationships charity, Relate,  commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions and welcomed by Minister for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith.

 

The report, All together now: Stronger relationships for a stronger society, sets out Relate’s 2025 vision


 A full written transcript of the Secretary of State's speech is now available as is a video of the event.

 (via Dave's weekly UK email)









5. Throwback Thursday, Week 6: Marriage and the female college student










The aim of this two-part post is to outline a broad sociological perspective for addressing recurring family issues that arise for women faculty in the ...





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Map: Marriage rates on the decline

Rachel Bennett



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Few millennials are getting married, and the numbers behind that trend











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Dollars and Priorities: The Financing of Child Welfare








9. 

A new effort to move Americans out of poverty


Sarah Rosen Wartell






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USU Study Connects Some Social Media Use to Marital Dissatisfaction





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