News and Notes from National Center for Family & Marriage Research

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News and Notes

October 2011

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.

Co-Director Susan Brown Discusses Intimate Relationships of Aging Baby Boomers

Partnering in Later Life: New Frontiers in Family Research

Susan Brown, NCFMR Co-Director, addressed recent trends and patterns in intimate relationships as part of BGSU's College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. She also addressed partnership dynamics and their consequences for individual well-being. NCFMR faculty, students, and BGSU/NCFMR research affiliates attended Brown's lecture on the BGSU campus in October.

Dr. Brown's research on the aging Baby Boomer population has recently been featured in The Fiscal Times, AARP, and FoxBusiness.

View PowerPoint presentation as a PDF

Just Released Data Resources

Family Profiles

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

The Data Source

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

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (TDS-11-06) New Data Set!
2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (TDS-11-05) Update to 2006-2008 NSFG
Consumer Expenditure Survey (TDS-11-04) New Data Set!

Working Paper Series

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

Kei Nomaguchi and Melissa A. Milkie

Gender, Beliefs about Spouse's Work-Family Conflict, and Relationship Quality (WP-11-04)

Heather J. Bachman and Rebekah Levine Coley published in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2011) 39:1149-1161 DOI 10.1007/s10802- 011-9535-1

Distinguishing between Family Structure and Family Instability on Child and Adolescent Well-Being in Low-income Families (WP-09-07)

If you have written a paper addressing a family issue that aligns with our mission statement and would like for us to consider adding it to the NCFMR Working Paper Series, we welcome submissions for consideration and possible inclusion. You may electronically submit your working papers to ncfmr@bgsu.edu

View Working Paper Series webpage

NCFMR in the News

NCFMR BGSU Research Affiliate Peggy Giordano Discusses Influence of Romantic Partner's Friends

ScienceNews

View Teen daters pal up to the bottle

Susan Brown Comments on Factors Influencing Long-Term Marriages

Toledo Blade

View Ellenbergers keep a promise for 70 years: Long-wed couple honored

NCFMR Finds Two-Fold Increase in Divorce Rate for Baby Boomers

Ohio.com

View Divorce rate rising for baby boomers

Research Team of Larry Gibbs and Krista Payne Find Link Between Rate of First Divorce and Educational Attainment

Larry Gibbs, graduate research assistant, and Krista Payne, social science data analyst, working on a collaborative research project, discovered a direct link between the rate of first divorce and a woman's educational attainment.

Although the last four decades have seen an increase in the proportion of Americans who are currently divorced, the actual rate of divorce among currently married individuals has declined. Peaking in the late 1970s at about 23 divorces per 1,000 married (Stevenson & Wolfers, 2007), recent estimates by Gibbs and Payne indicate the first divorce rate was 17.5 per 1,000 women in first marriages ages 18 years and older in 2010.

Additionally, there is substantial variation in the first divorce rates by educational attainment. More specifically, according to Payne, the association between educational attainment and divorce is curvilinear; those women on the two ends of the educational attainment spectrum have the lowest first divorce rates at 14.4 per 1,000 among those with less than a high school education and 14.2 per 1,000 among those with a college degree. The rate of first divorce is highest for those with only some college (23 per 1,000), adds Gibbs.

First Divorce Rates per 1,000 Women in First Marriages Aged 18 and Older by Educational Attainment, 2010

Source: American Community Survey, 2010

View First Divorce Rate, 2010 (FP-11-09)

Susan Brown to Gather Scholars from NCFMR 2009 Marital and Family Instability Conference During National Council on Family Relations 73rd Annual Meeting

Family Instability and Child Well-being

The session brings together participants from the NCFMR 2009 Family Instability conference at BGSU, eager to continue the dialogue in this NCFR symposium. Each paper presented by this team of scholars showcases different data to address how family instability is related to children's well-being in multiple contexts, including disadvantaged and international populations.

Presented by...

Susan Brown

Patricia Pendry

F.M. Henderson

J. Angles

E. Conlin

Heather Bachman

Rebekah Levine Coley

Jennifer Carrano

Paula Fomby

Shannon Cavanagh

Lauren Rinelli McClain

Session: #137

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Location: Salon 14

2010 Child Trends Report Finds One in Four U.S. Children Lived in Food-Insecure Household
Food insecurity reports and briefs available from four organizations