Fwd: Institute for Family Studies Newsletter, 6/26/14: Modern marriages, just wages, and more

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This Week on Family-Studies.org

We explored whether marriages today are individualistic, shared good news about who benefits most from family-strengthening programs, made the conservative case for just wages, and warned against paying too much attention to faulty research.

Supporting Disadvantaged Couples

by Scott Stanley

Government-sponsored family-strengthening programs have limited effectiveness, but new findings indicate that, contra the expectations of some scholars, they may be most helpful to the most disadvantaged couples.

A Pro-Family Wage

by Amber and David Lapp

Although low wages are hard on marriages and families, those who care most about strengthening the family are often silent on the subject. Here are a few reasons they should speak up.

Marriage: Still a Team Effort

by Anna Sutherland

Many observe, and fear, that marriage is growing more individualistic. Far from maintaining separate, autonomous lives, however, most of today’s married couples still form interdependent partnerships.

Beware of Woozles

by Linda Nielsen

The formation of an erroneous consensus on whether young children of separated parents should stay overnight with their fathers provides a cautionary tale about interpreting and sharing family research.

IFS Around the Web

Research fellow David Lapp shares findings from an IFS-cosponsored report at the Huffington Post, and in the Wall Street Journal, senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox reviews a book on how inequality shapes marriage markets (WSJ subscription required).
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