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Welcome

The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to News and Notes, our monthly electronic newsletter. News and Notes aims to keep you informed about the activities of the NCFMR. We will also announce funding and research opportunities, provide registration details for conferences and workshops, and keep you updated on current research findings.

 

 

What's New at the NCFMR...

NCFMR Invitational Forum Addresses How to Best Measure Incarceration Experience in Household SurveysChild peering out window
Measuring Incarceration in Household Surveys

The NCFMR organized and co-sponsored a national invitational forum featuring a group of leading scholars, federal data providers, and policy makers to assess how the incarceration experience should be measured in household surveys. The nontrivial prevalence of the currently and formerly incarcerated in the U.S. population coupled with the evidence that incarceration has enduring negative consequences for individuals and their families speaks to the importance of capturing the incarceration experience in household surveys. Data resources from the Measuring Incarceration in Household Surveys Invitational Forum are available on the NCFMR website.  

NCFMR Co-Sponsored Conference in Edited Volume

 

Co-Directors Susan Brown and Wendy Manning, editors with Alan Booth, Nancy Landale, and Susan McHale, recently released Early Adulthood in a Family Context as part of Penn State's Annual National Symposium on Families. Contributions are based on papers presented at the Early Adulthood in a Family Context Symposium co-organized by the NCFMR and Penn State. Books based on each symposium bring the event to a broad audience and are used as reference works by faculty, students, and practitioners.    

 

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.


The Data Source

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

NCFMR in the News 

Social Science Data Analyst Krista Payne Finds Slight Increase in Number of Women in Commuter Marriages
The Grindstone 

BGSU NCFMR Research Affiliate Kenneth Pargament Addresses the Spirituality of Health
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Gary Lee, BGSU NCFMR Research Affiliate, Comments on Potential Benefits of Marriage
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Nicole Shoenberger, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant, Finds Rate of Incarceration Experience Greater Among Young Adult Fathers

Graduate Research Assistant Nicole Shoenberger's research finds men who have fathered a child prior to the age of 25 are more likely to have had contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) by age 25 than men who have not had a child. Among men with children, 29% have had CJS contact compared to only 13% of men without children. Most striking, 20% of young adult fathers report being incarcerated before the age of 25. In contrast, among young men without children, only 6% report ever being incarcerated.

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Criminal Justice Contact Among Men
Young Adult Fathers Incarceration Experience
Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), Rounds 1-12: 1997-2008 (weighted). U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, NCFMR analyses of valid cases.


Family Profile
 
 
 

Population Reference Bureau Releases New Publication
A New Post-Recession Update on U.S. Social and Economic Trends

PRB LogoThe PRB has released a new bulletin that updates the period since 2008 to assess the ongoing impact of the U.S. recession. For more information, please visit NCFR PRB
 
 
 

New American FactFinder Available

The transition to the New American FactFinder has been completed and the site has been updated to allow for one-stop access.  
 

Upcoming Events 

 

 

February 2012

 

Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies (OACAA) Winter Legislative Conference 

Date: February 1-3

Link to OACAA 

 

Call for Applications -- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)  

Summer Undergraduate Internship Program -- 2012 

Date Due: February 13

Link to ICPSR    

 

Call for Applications -- Center for Population Research in LGBT Health

Pre-Doctoral Mentoring Program in LGBT Health Research

Date Due: February 15

Link to Center for Population Research in LGBT Health 

 

Call for Applications -- Family Process Institute  

New Writers Fellowship

Date Due: February 15

Link to NCFR Call for Applications 

 

 

March 2012

 

Southeastern Council on Family Relations 2012 Annual Conference

Looking Out for Families in the Southeast 

Date: March 1-2

Link to SECFR 

 

Request for Proposals -- Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) 2012-2013 Emerging Scholars Small Grants Competition 

Research on Family Complexity, Poverty, and Public Policy

Date Due: March 1

Link to IRP 

 

Call for Papers -- International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research (IOSSBR)

Date Due: March 1

Link to IOSSBR 

 

Call for Abstracts -- National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy (NRCCFPP) 

Date Due: March 5

Link to NRCCFPP 

 

Call for Applications -- 19th Annual RAND Summer Institute

Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging

Date Due: March 9 

Link to RAND Mini-Medical Application 

Link to RAND Demography, et al. Application 

 

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report

Teaching Family Science 

Date Due: March 21

Contact editor Nancy Gonzalez at nancygonzalez@ncfr.org 

 

Texas Council on Family Relations Annual Conference

Promoting Healthy Families: Positive Family Interactions

Date: March 29-30 

Link to TCFR 

 

 

April 2012

 

Call for Proposals -- Wisconsin Council on Family Relations

Sustainability: Thriving in Challenging Times

Contact jamikaiserCFLE@gmail.com for submission deadlines and details 

 

Call for Submissions -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 

2012 Themed Meeting: Transitions from Adolescence to Adulthood

Date Due: April 5

Link to SRCD 

 

Breakfast with NCCP

Help honor individuals who have made a lasting imprint in the battle against child poverty in America

Date: April 14

Email development@nccp.org 

 

International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research (IOSSBR) Spring 2012 Conference

Date: April 23-25

Link to IOSSBR  

 

Center for Adolescent Research and Development (CARD) 2012 Conference

Adolescence in the 21st Century: Constants and Challenges 

Date: April 28 

Link to Mount St. Mary College 

 

 

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