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What's New at the NCFMR...

The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.

New Family Profiles Series Released 

The NCFMR recently released a third installment in a series of Family Profiles. On the Road to Adulthood profiles examine the family formation markers leading to early adulthood using recent data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). 

• On the Road to Adulthood: Sequencing of Family Experiences (FP-11-11) 
• On the Road to Adulthood: Forming Families (FP-11-08) 
• On the Road to Adulthood: Leaving the Parental Home (FP-11-02) 

View our other series of Family Profiles.

• Adoption 
• U.S. Families in 2010 

Just Released Data Resources

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing and analyzing nationally representative data with the goal to provide the latest analysis of U.S. families.

• Marital Duration at Divorce, 2010 (FP-11-13)  

Family Profiles Series

Family Profiles that focus on the latest NCFMR analyses of American families.

• On the Road to Adulthood 

The Data Source

Documents describing newly released data sets used by the family research community.

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) (TDS-11-09) 
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (TDS-11-08) 

Working Paper Series

A collection of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students.  

• Paula Fomby, Shannon Cavanagh, and Joshua Goode 

• Family Instability and School Readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom 

• View Working Paper Series webpage 

NCFMR in the News

Manning and Brown Discuss Family Formations in Early Adulthood

PsychCentral

• View Most Young Adults Form a Family by Age 25

The Berkeley Daily Planet  

• View Senior Power...It's Called Gray Divorce  

Co-Directors Discuss Protective Effects of a College Degree Against Divorce

WBGU-TV

• View Protection Against Divorce?  

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• View Amid rising divorces, the graying of the singles scene

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant Julia Arroyo Finds Increase in Median Age at First Marriage 

 

Julia Arroyo, undergraduate research assistant, presented her research at the BGSU Presidential Inauguration Student Research Symposium on November 30. Arroyo's research finds a striking increase in the median age at first marriage during 2010. While men's median age at first marriage increased .5 years, women's increased .4 years.   

 

BGSU President Mazey and Julia Arroyo discuss Arroyo's research during the BGSU Presidential Inauguration
Student Research Symposium

• View Arroyo's Poster 

Upcoming Events

January 2012

Request for Proposals -- Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality (CPI) New Scholars Grant Competition

Call for Papers -- American Sociological Association 2012 Annual Meeting

Real Utopias: Emancipatory Projects, Institutional Designs, Possible Futures

Date Due: January 11

Link to ASA 

Call for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012

Date Due: January 13

Link to NPC 

Call for Applications -- Population Council 

Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program  

Date Due: January 15

Link to Population Council 

Request for Applications -- 2012 NIH Director's Early Independence Awards Program

Date Due: January 30

Link to The NIH Common Fund 

Invitation for Submissions -- ICPSR 2012 Research Paper Competition

Open to Undergraduates and Master's Students at Member Institutions

Date Due: January 31

Link to ICPSR 

Call for Proposals -- Center for Adolescent Research and Development Conference

The Mount Saint Mary College Center for Adolescent Research and Development (CARD)

Date Due: January 31

Link to Mount Saint Mary College 

February 2012

Call for Applications -- ICPSR Summer Undergraduate Internship Program

Annual Summer Internship Program

Date Due: February 13

Link to ICPSR 

Call for Applications -- Family Process Institute

2012 New Writers Fellowship

Date Due: February 15

Link to Family Process Org 

Link to Call for Family Process New Writers Fellows PDF  

Call for Applications -- The Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

REU Program in Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the U.S.

Date Due: February 17

Link to UT Austin  

13th Annual National Fatherhood and Families Conference -- Fathers & Families Coalition of America

Dates: February 21-24

Link to Fathers & Families Coalition of America 

March 2012

Special Issue Call for Papers -- Journal of Family Theory & Review

Date Due: March 1 

• Guest Editor Lee Ann De Reus lad12@psu.edu 
• Deputy Editor Libby Balter Blume blumelb@udmercy.edu

Link to Journal of Family Theory & Review Call for Papers