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This Week on Family-Studies.org

We showed why fighting child obesity requires family involvement, profiled today’s stay-at-home dads, and reported on the long-term effects on women of having a child outside of marriage. We also discovered a surprising difference in how men and women come to consider divorce.

Men vs. Women on Divorce

by Scott Stanley

Negative interactions and lacking positive bonds with their spouse can both prompt married people to consider divorce—but they affect men and women differently, suggesting the two hold different standards for judging marital success.

The Effects of Single Motherhood

by Anna Sutherland

For women, giving birth to one’s first child outside marriage has a lasting impact on educational attainment, employment, and family stability, according to a new report from the Census.

Forming Healthy Habits

by Ashley McGuire

A balanced approach to eating, like nearly all good or bad habits, begins in the home. That means fighting the spread of child obesity will take more than healthy school lunches.

Today’s Stay-at-Home Dads

by Anna Sutherland

Stay-at-home fathers, like at-home mothers, have become more common since the late 1990s. Unfortunately, that’s mainly due to the 2008 recession and the sluggish recovery that has followed.

IFS Around the Web

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat commended IFS research fellows David and Amber Lapp’s “fine-grained work on the down-and-out young working class” in a blog post this week after the Lapps and Charles Stokes wrote about religion and divorce in The Federalist.
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