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News and Notes

November 2011

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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...

    

The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.

 

 

NCFMR Releases New Family Profiles Series

U.S. Families in 2010 

 

The NCFMR is pleased to announce the release of a series of family profiles focusing on new findings about U.S. families. These profiles are the latest in the Center's series of marriage and divorce data resources using the 2010 ACS data.

 

US Families 2010 *View First Marriage Rate in the U.S., 2010 (FP-11-12) Family Profile  

 

*View Marriage Data Resources by Topic 

 

*View Divorce Data Resources by Topic 

 

    

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Just Released Data Resources

 

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing the latest statistics on U.S. families.

 

Data Points

Tables and figures integrating statistics and demographic perspectives designed to investigate the links between marriage and family well-being at all stages of the life course.

 

The Data Source

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

 

Working Paper Series

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

  • Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach

 

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NCFMR in the News

 

NCFMR Research Team Finds Education and Race Tied to Divorce Rate

 

 

New Research Finds College Educated Women are More Likely to Marry 

 

Research by Krista Payne, social science data analyst, and Larry Gibbs, graduate research assistant, has found that educational attainment is positively associated with marriage. Additionally, this finding spans all racial and ethnic groups with a college degree.  

 

First Marriage Rate for 1,000 Never-married Women Aged 18 and Older by

Educational Attainment
1st Marriage Rate

    

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010   

 

 

 

Susan Brown Leads Two Sessions at NCFR 73rd Annual Meeting  

Family Instability and Child Well-being Symposium 

Grant Writing 101 Seminar: Writing a Fundable Grant 

 

Family Instability and Child Well-being 

At the annual meeting of National Council on Family Relations, held in Orlando, FL earlier this month, Co-Director Susan Brown led a symposium featuring former NCFMR grantees and a former NCFMR graduate research fellow who presented their ongoing work on family instability and child well-being. This interdisciplinary panel of scholars featured cutting-edge research on how various forms of family turbulence are linked to child and adolescent outcomes.

 

NCFR 2011

From left: Paula Fomby, Heather Bachman, Susan Brown, Patricia Pendry, and Lauren Rinelli-McClain  

 

  • View work by former grantees...
  • View work by former graduate research fellow...

Grant Writing 101 Seminar: Writing a Fundable Grant


Upcoming Events

 

 

December 2011

Request for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

Open to NPC Research Affiliates and Other Poverty Researchers 

Date Due: December 1

Link to NPC 

 

Call for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

2012 Visiting Scholars Program

Date Due: December 2

Link to NPC 

 

Call for Papers -- International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences  

Date Due: December 13

Link to Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 

 

Fellowships in Public Policy Available for 2012-2013 -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 

Date Due: December 15

Link to SRCD 

 

Call for Submissions -- International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)

Date Due: December 15

Link to IARR 

 

Call for Abstracts -- Second International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology

Children's Voices, Well-Being and Social Justice

Date Due: December 15

Link to ISA 

 

Call for Applications -- Population Association of America (PAA) Fellowship Opportunity

Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 

Date Due: December 15

Link to PAA 

 

Call for Abstracts -- Asian Population Association (APA) Conference

Date Due: December 15

Link to APA 

 

Call for Applications -- Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Training Program

Building Careers for Research in Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence

Date Due: December 15

Link to Washington University in St. Louis 

 

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report

Military Families 

Date Due: December 21

Contact nancygonzalez@ncfr.org to obtain submission guidelines

 

January 2012

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

Research on Monitoring Trends in Poverty and Inequality

Date Due: January 10 

Link to The Stanford Center 

 

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