Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1.  Sources of family breakdown in the UK

 Harry Benson, Marriage Foundation

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MF-research-note-Source-of-family-breakdown.pdf




2. A CAMPING TRIP WITH YOUNG KIDS, AS IMAGINED BY ME BEFORE HAVING KIDS

by JULIE VICK

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-camping-trip-with-young-kids-as-imagined-by-me-before-having-kids?




3. An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers

MARIA POPOVA

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/06/22/mister-rogers-parenting/?




4. 

Slides/Handout from talk at NARME 2023 on premarital cohabitation


Dr. Scott Stanley

http://slidingvsdeciding.blogspot.com/2023/07/slideshandout-from-talk-at-narme-2023.html





5. The Church in a Time of Gender War

Why marriage can do what ideology cannot.

SAMUEL D. JAMES

https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-church-in-a-time-of-gender-war





6. Level Up Your Father Game

ACF

https://www.fatherhood.gov/sites/default/files/resource_files/ACF%20Strategic%20Planning_Being%20a%20Great%20Dad%20Fact%20Sheet_20230626_508.pdf




7. National Center for Family and Marriage Research at BGSU reports that never-married adults comprise the lowest percentage of U.S. homeowners

Laren Kowalczyk for National Center for Family and Marriage Research 

https://www.bgsu.edu/news/2023/07/national-center-for-family-and-marriage-research-at-bgsu-reports-never-married-adults-comprise-lowest-percentage-of-us-homeowners.html



8. The Courtship and Marriage of Sts. Anne and Joachim

Patrick O’Hearn

https://www.ncregister.com/features/the-courtship-and-marriage-of-sts-anne-and-joachim

OR

Experts speculate on why marriage is declining — and what to do about it

 Daniel Payne

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254892/experts-speculate-on-why-marriage-is-declining-and-what-to-do-about-it




9. Four Types of Marriage: Which One Is Yours?

Thomas Henricks Ph.D. for PT

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pathways-of-experience/202307/four-types-of-marriage-which-one-is-yours




10. The key to a happy marriage might be joint bank accounts, researchers say

PREET BANERJEE

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/household-finances/article-the-key-to-a-happy-marriage-might-be-joint-bank-accounts-researchers/



Thanks
Bill