tag:billcoffin.org,2013:/posts Coffin Corner 2025-09-11T22:07:40Z Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2223315 2025-09-11T22:07:39Z 2025-09-11T22:07:40Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. The 2024 ACS 1-year estimates are now available

U.S. Census






2. Polling Gen Z: The Great Divide on What Defines a Successful Life

Emily Zanotti, NCR

https://www.ncregister.com/news/nbc-newsdesk-poll-gen-z-happiness?




3. Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research

Alex Bryson, David Blanchflower, Xiaowei Xu 





4. Portfolio of Research in Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency – FY 2024

https://acf.gov/opre/report/portfolio-research-welfare-and-family-self-sufficiency-fy-2024

OR

Beyond the Early Years: The Long-Term Effects of Home Visiting on Mothers, Families, and Children. Results from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE)

https://acf.gov/opre/report/beyond-early-years-long-term-effects-home-visiting-mothers-families-and-children




5. Financial Stress and Coparenting Among Lower-Income Couples: A Dyadic Exploration

by Heidi E. Stolz *, Rebecca G. Renegar, Shailey Curtis, and Jessica L. McCaig

https://www.mdpi.com/3042-6693/1/1/7




6. Before They Can Read

 Robert Pondiscio, AEI

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/before-they-can-read/




7. Ideal family size: How many children do U.S. adults want?

 Lois M. Collins

https://www.deseret.com/family/2025/09/09/ideal-family-size-how-many-children-do-us-adults-want-gallup-poll/




8. Kids? Marriage? Young adults are delaying these key milestones

Sara Chernikoff, Jennifer Borresen




9. Fatherhood is more important than golf

Victor Penney

https://theinterim.com/columnist/victor-penney/fatherhood-is-more-important-than-golf/



10. Next Session of Online Initiative to Develop Fatherhood Skills Begins September 30

https://www.loudoun.gov/fatherhood





Thanks
Bill


]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2221927 2025-09-04T22:09:11Z 2025-09-04T22:09:14Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Impacts of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program: Pilot study with married couples in China






2. Engaged Fathers, Flourishing Children

interview with Steven J. Davis, Brad Wilcox, Ian Rowe

https://www.hoover.org/research/engaged-fathers-flourishing-children




3. Reimagining Fall learning: Playful, purposeful, engaging


Sweta Shah, Brookings

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/reimagining-fall-learning-playful-purposeful-engaging/




4. 'We couldn't apply for a BTO': The pains and joys of marrying young in Singapore


https://www.channelnewsasia.com/today/ground-up/young-couples-early-marriages-singapore-youths-tying-knot-family-5319031




5. California bishops, marriage ministry partner to strengthen family life

 , OSV News







6. The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies

, WAPO

https://wapo.st/3I3gZAB





7. Ask Wirecutter: Why Can’t My Partner See How Right I Am?








8. America's young people are delaying adulthood milestones

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/young-adults-delay-marriage-kids-jobs-census






9. The Country Where Men Raise Babies—and Love Every Minute of It






10. Research Highlights Mental Health Risks For New Fathers

AIFS





Thanks
Bill

]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2220597 2025-08-28T15:44:49Z 2025-08-28T15:44:49Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Reflections of the Nation’s Former Marriage Czar - Dr. Wade Horn

Stronger Marriage Webinar Recording, 

Utah Marriage Commission 







2.   Child Welfare System Myths vs. Facts
 
Brett Drake | American Enterprise Institute 





3. Thick Community & Why We Need It

Soren and Ever Johnson, Trinity House Community







4. The Emerging Marriage Renaissance

Carl Caton, NARME Plenary 2025











6. Maintaining Relationship Safety While Promoting Relationship Health: Family Service Referrals Among Veterans Screened for Intimate Partner Violence
Dev Crasta , Grace B. McKee, Nicole M. Caulfield, Hajra Usman, Nicole Trabold, Cory A. Crane, Jennifer S. Funderburk, Katherine M. Iverson, Scott D. McDonald
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-53389-001.html





7. From Family Dynamics to Adolescent Social Functioning: A Longitudinal Study of Parental Depression and Emotional Insecurity

Reyhaneh S. Razavi, Rebecca Y. M. Cheung, Patrick T. Davies, E. Mark Cummings

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7295938/v1




8. People are having fewer babies: Is it really the end of the world?







9. Understanding America Study

The Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), the University of Southern California.







10. DoDEA and CNIC Partner to Expand Non-Medical Counseling Support in Overseas Schools

Jasmine McLeod, HQ Chief, Student Support Services, DoDEA HQ






11. In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, and Women’s Well-Being

By Brad Wilcox | Wendy Wang | Jean Twenge | Jenet Erickson







12. Divorce rates are down, marriage rates are up, contrary to popular belief

By Alexander Batman, BYU-Idaho Radio





Thanks
Bill


]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2219252 2025-08-21T21:39:17Z 2025-08-21T21:39:18Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. The trends behind the historically low U.S. birth rate

Will Croxton






2. Tonight!

Reflections of the Nation’s Former Marriage Czar - Dr. Wade Horn
Date: August 21, 2025
Time: 6:00 MDT





3.  No boom in ‘no fault’ divorce 

Harry Benson







5. What the latest studies say about marriage and dating trends in the U.S. today

Ayesha Rascoe






6.  Enhancing Confidence and Teaching Efficacy in Youth Relationship Education Practice Through Service-Learning 

Lindsey Almond,  Silvia Vilches, Francesca Adler-Baeder, 
Department of Human Development and Family Science, Auburn University

https://www.familyscienceassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FSR-V29-1-Almond.pdf




7. A Marriage Skills Intervention to Improve the Marital Competencies of Couples in Multicultural Resource-Limited Communities in South Africa

Maretha Visser &Marilyn C. Saunders





9. A Skill to Help Soothe Teens’ Back-to-School Anxiety

 Tyralynn Frazier, Blake Colaianne |

Jonathon Van Maren

https://wng.org/opinions/repopulating-the-playground-1755560343




12. Parents in positive relationships with their partner have children with stronger friendships

Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)




Thanks
Bill



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2217786 2025-08-14T21:18:35Z 2025-08-14T21:18:36Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Marriage rates and outcomes: What’s education got to do with it?

John V. Winters, professor of economics, Iowa State University.






2.  A longitudinal mediation analysis of relationship catastrophizing, perceived partner support, and sexual well-being in couples seeking medically assisted reproduction

 Grace AWang1 , Katherine Pe´loquin2 , Meghan A Rossi1 , Quinn M MacDonald1 , Audrey Brassard3 , Sophie Bergeron2 , Renda Bouzayen4 and Natalie O Rosen1,4

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13591053251351686



3.  Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long-Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups

 Kasimir Dederichs1 | Evelina Akimova1,2,3,4,5 | Nan Dirk de Graaf1





4. Meeting partners online is related to lower relationship satisfaction and love: Data from 50 countries

Marta Kowal a, Piotr Sorokowski b, Adam Bode c, Michal Misiak b, W.P. Malecki d, Agnieszka Sorokowska b, S. Craig Roberts a e

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585325000711



5. Religious/spiritual struggles and sanctification of relational sexuality: ties to sexual satisfaction among Jewish Israeli in marital or committed relationships






6.  Saying no to marriage: A topic modeling approach to Korean social big data on “bi-hon” 

Jeenkyoung Lee 1 | Jaerim Lee 2,3 | Jee Hoon Lee 2






7. What young adults need to know about AI

American Psychological Association

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-young-adults-need-know-ai-american-psychological-association-dsyge/




8. Do Couples With Similar Personalities Have Happier Relationships?

Jill Suttie 






9. Home Visiting Recruitment and Uptake Evidence Review







10. When Love Becomes a Ledger: How Keeping Score Can Hurt Your Relationship

Haeyoung Gideon Park and Emily A. Impett





11. The Consumer Culture Of Marriage

Bill Doherty, PhD, The Doherty Relationship Institute, LLC

https://thedohertyapproach.com/the-consumer-culture-of-marriage/






12. Print beats digital for preschoolers learning to read, study finds

by Madeline Strauss, Michigan State University





13.  Marriage Health in America study

Focus on the Family

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SOTF-MarriageHealth-2025.pdf




Thanks
Bill


]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2216205 2025-08-07T13:17:16Z 2025-08-07T13:17:17Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Quick Lessons, 15 minutes on popular topics  

USU EXTENSION  




2. Most Young Adults Have Not Achieved Key Adulthood Milestones by 2024  

Paul Hemez and Jonathan Vespa  





3. More teenagers are saying they use AI for friendship. Here’s why researchers are concerned  






4. Statistics and Facts About Dating in 2025  

Emily Phares  





5. From Adversity to Resilience: A Framework for Hope  

When: Wednesday, August 13 @ 1:00pm Pacific Time/4:00pm Eastern Time  
Speaker: Jessica Herzog-Hall; Director, ACEs Indiana Coalition  






6. How Prenatal and Early Childhood Programs Can Engage Fathers from Day One  

By Erik Vecere  





7. Growing diverse and immigrant populations drove the nation’s post-pandemic demographic rebound, new census data show  

William H. Frey  






8. Interventions in High-Conflict Divorces/Separations from Children’s Perspective: A Scoping Review 

Susanna Rautioa , Anna Nikupeterib , and Merja Laitinenb






9. Enhanced Afterplay Can Save Relationships from Erosion: A Comprehensive Research Synthesis and Framework for Future Inquiry 

Khan Tahsin Abrar





10.  Risk factors of military spouse suicide: An exploratory analysis 

Grace E. Seamon- Lahiff, Marcie Goeke-Morey





11. Investigating bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child maltreatment from early childhood to adolescence: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model

Dan Wang a, Ami Mariko Hood Frost a, Zheng Wang b






12. Mindfulness techniques help birthing parents manage stress of parenthood

Mary Campbell





13. Where Are the Pro-Family Senators?

By Brad Wilcox | Maria Baer








Thanks
Bill
still at OBX




Bill Coffin  
301-625-7737 | 301-518-5657 | billcoffin68@gmail.com  

]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2214589 2025-07-31T20:48:06Z 2025-07-31T20:48:08Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Taylor Swift, Adele, and Our Marriage-Haunted Culture

Tom Hoopes




2. Mindfulness and daily sexual function: a dyadic diary study 

Emily Jarvis, MSc, Jackie S Huberman, PhD, Natalie O Rosen, PhD




3. Australia’s divorce rate is lowest in 50 years and marriages are lasting longer, according to ABS data






4.  What Marriage Ministry Sometimes Gets Wrong 

Ron & Nan Deal, with Terry & Sharon Hargrave






5. See the Best in Your Teen
Ken Ginsburg

https://parentandteen.com/author/ginsburg/




6. Marriage Makes a Comeback—and Not a Moment Too Soon

Seth Eisenberg





7. Coming to Terms with Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: A Scoping Review

Lisa Norén,Martin Bergström &Lisa Wallander

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26408066.2025.2469670?src=recsys#d1e150




8. The New FCS Family Resource Center will aim to serve CSULB students with dependents  

By Jonathan Murrietta





10. Number of newborns hit 14-year high, as marriage, birth numbers rise 11 months in a row

KOREA NOW






Thanks
Bill
from OBX, NC


]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2212844 2025-07-24T17:49:54Z 2025-07-24T17:49:54Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Decade of the Child

Diana Fishbein, PhD, and Christina Bethell, PhD 

https://www.npscoalition.org/projects/decade-of-the-child





2. Which Program Elements Are Associated with Better Outcomes for Fathers?

OPRE/ACF

https://acf.gov/opre/report/which-program-elements-are-associated-better-outcomes-fathers




3. Cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in the aging population: The buffering role of marital status

M. Ciziceno , G. Maggio 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625007567






4. [PDF] Interparental conflict and relationship expectations: exploring potential mediators

AL Garcia, W Goodfriend, D Barnett, T Hack - Interpersona: An International Journal, 2025
… experienced high interparental conflict, with the hope that relationship education
could minimize the adverse effects often associated with … the status of their parents’
romantic relationship, nearly half reported their parents as married (49.6%), followed …






5. Celebrate marriage jubilee!

https://cacatholic.org/marriage/



6. Kids are asking AI companions to solve their problems, according to a new study. Here’s why that’s a problem
Analysis by Kara Alaimo



https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/16/health/teens-ai-companion-wellness




7. New marriage mentorship program pairs couples to walk ‘Side by Side’





8. Bread and Honey

Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
by Diana Saverin







9. 5 times 'Everybody Loves Raymond' nailed American family life

Vinita Jain





11. Ohio's new budget includes $20M to promote the role of fathers in families



12. Social Security payments have become an increasingly relevant income support for children

Simran Kalkat, Tara Watson, and Jonathon Zars
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/social-security-payments-have-become-an-increasingly-relevant-income-support-for-children/




THANKS
Bill


]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2211392 2025-07-17T19:03:59Z 2025-07-17T19:04:01Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. You can view the new grant opportunities at the following links: 





2. Is Ring by Spring Still a Thing, or Was It Just a Fling?

by Brandon Kevin Burr *, Emma Christensen, Brian Camp, Clint Broadbent, Rachel Arocho, Rachel Ann Augustus, Bobby Kern, Daniel Huble, and Josi Woodhouse


https://www.mdpi.com/3042-6693/1/1/2




3. Fertility Rate Near Historic Low in the United States

Elizabeth Wildsmith

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/fertility-rate-united-states



4. Family Hubs expansion creates opportunity to improve support for families

OnePlusOne

https://www.oneplusone.org.uk/news/family-hubs-expansion-creates-opportunity-to-improve-support-for-families




5. Using American Community Survey Data for Grant Writing





6. I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend

by Victoria Song


Samantha L. Quigley, American Forces Press Service

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/517937/attendees-leave-family-conference-with-wealth-resources





8. How to disagree better





9. Understanding relationship development: Towards a more rigorous approach

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091332


OR

New study uses cutting-edge modeling to rethink how romantic relationships evolve

By Elizabeth Hess

https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-new-study-uses-cutting-edge-modeling-to-rethink-how-romantic-relationships-evolve/



10. Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders





11. Prevention Services Evaluation Partnerships: Supporting Adoptive Families




12. Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program Evaluation Toolkit





Thanks
Bill



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2209792 2025-07-10T21:17:59Z 2025-07-10T21:17:59Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Understanding Hoarding

Mindspring Mental Health Alliance

https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/oKy698UB6cLdyFDyxISf5wHCbPYbCWWbXvGol3-eyaLInzeP-J3NcFUsHJczE_Ac.Ydqo3oWug1KJK0a-




2. Saturday, July 12, at 2 pm ET Families and Politics -Online


OR

At this event in Minnesota, Braver Angels co-founder Bill Doherty walked through some of the do’s and don’ts of talking about politics with kids.

Read: Talking Sense: MPR News: How to talk to kids about politics without divisive rhetoric





3. Married People Are Much Happier

By Kasandra Brabaw






4. MarriageREADY: Build a Stronger Relationship Before You Say “I Do”


Daniel Lilley for Jubilee Centre





6. Bridget Phillipson urges more young people to have children amid ‘worrying’ birth rates

Millie Cooke, Political Correspondent, Kate Devlin

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bridget-phillipson-more-children-birth-rate-labour-b2779510.html

OR

Decline in marriage and children continues in Switzerland

20/06/2025 By Le News

https://lenews.ch/2025/06/20/decline-in-marriage-and-children-continues-in-switzerland/




7. Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children's Adult Outcomes

Andrew C. Johnston, Maggie R. Jones & Nolan G. Pope

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33776



8. Breakthrough in relationship research: This is the secret that guarantees a happy marriage

NEWS AGENCIES/MAARIV





9. What Does It Actually Mean to Forgive?

By Robert Enright

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_does_it_actually_mean_to_forgive?




10.  Effectiveness of relationship education among high school youth: the role of context 

Esra Şahin, Joshua J. Turner, J. Scott Crapo, Kay Bradford, and Brian Higginbotham

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02673843.2025.2496446

OR

'Situtationships' Are the New Teen Romance—Here's What Parents Need to Know

By Lydia Wang





































]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2206107 2025-06-24T16:55:04Z 2025-06-24T16:55:05Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Passenger Parenting: When Dad Is Just Along for the Ride

Daniel Dashnaw

OR

Speaking of Psychology: ‘Dad brain’: How becoming a parent changes the brain, with Darby Saxbe, PhD



2. Prenatal stress and children’s behavior: What expectant parents should know

Irene Tung






3. A Majority of Hispanic Children in Households With Low Incomes Live in Two-Parent Families

https://www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/research-resources/a-majority-of-hispanic-children-in-households-with-low-incomes-live-in-two-parent-families/




4. 

🎙️ Episode #155

Why Prioritizing Your Spouse Makes You a Better Parent

LISTEN NOW
 Episode #155

Why Prioritizing Your Spouse Makes You a Better Parent











5. Childhood Predictors of Dispositional Forgivingness in Adulthood: A Cross-National Analysis with 22 Countries


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-025-10451-z

Also see https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/forgiveness





6. Adopted Resolutions – 93rd Annual Meeting (Tampa, 2025)

Children, Health, and Human Services





7. Important Update on ACF Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants https://www.narme.org/policy-information



8. Research examining parents’ well-being, communication in families with autistic children

By Chuck Green | CYFS

https://news.unl.edu/article/research-examining-parents-well-being-communication-in-families-with-autistic-children




9. Decline in marriage and children continues in Switzerland

https://lenews.ch/2025/06/20/decline-in-marriage-and-children-continues-in-switzerland/



10. Making time for marriage: Tips for military couples
  • By Derika Upshaw, Fort Hood Public Affairs



OR

81 Years of Marriage, Separated Briefly by World War II








11. Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds

Ellen Barry

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/youth-suicide-risk-phones.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.GovH.PO3swfPPVVUv&smid=url-share




Thanks Alysse!
Bill



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2204942 2025-06-19T19:23:07Z 2025-06-19T19:23:07Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Associate Director | Notre Dame Strengthening Families Research Initiative





2. Prenatal stress and children’s behavior: What expectant parents should know

By Irene Tung






3. Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Behavioral Health Disorders: Report Dissemination Workshop


June 27, 10-5

https://www.nationalacademies.org/en/event/45186_06-2025_blueprint-for-a-national-prevention-infrastructure-for-behavioral-health-disorders-report-dissemination-workshop




4. The Free Father Friendly Check-Up™ for Organizations and Agencies

NFI


OR

New Scholarly Fatherhood Report Offers Important New Insights

by Glenn T. Stanton




5. How Can I Get My Kids to Do Chores?

by Christina Frank








7. From “Likes” to Love: The Influence of Social Media on Forming Relationships






8.  Development of the Couple Financial Conflict Scale: A Pilot Study

 Megan R. Ford, University of Georgia, Joseph W. Goetz, University of Georgia, Kristy L. Archuleta, University of Georgia










9.  EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF PREMARITAL COUNSELING ON LONG-TERM MARITAL SATISFACTION: A COMPREHENSIVE LITERATURE REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND RELATIONAL OUTCOMES 

Faith Boggs1 , Dr. Kelly Arney2




OR

Perspective: Parents, encourage your engaged children to invest in premarital education


Alan Hawkins


https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/06/14/perspective-parents-encourage-your-engaged-children-to-invest-in-premarital-education/



10. 

Ten Things You Need to Know About Hospice

When: Wednesday, June 26, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Pacific time)

Where: ONLINE

Cost: No charge

Registration: Click here







Thanks
Bill



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2203277 2025-06-12T15:05:00Z 2025-06-12T15:05:01Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. What experts think about the $1,000 ‘Trump accounts’ for babies

Hannah Grabenstein

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-experts-think-about-the-1000-trump-accounts-for-babies





2. 
HHS-2025-ACF-OFA-ZJ-0014 Family, Opportunity, Resilience, Grit, Engagement – Fatherhood (FORGE Fatherhood)


HHS-2025-ACF-OFA-ZD-0013 Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life)
HHS-2025-ACF-OFA-ZB-0109 Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive - Adults (HEART)

will likely be released this week

Search "Marriage" at the Dept of HHS https://www.grants.gov/search-grants




3. Does having sex before marriage make people happier?

https://lovemeansmore.org/what-is-love/willing-the-good/unity/sexual-relationships/chastity/premarital-sex-cohabitation/#:~:text=Married%20people%20are%20also%20more%20likely%20to%20report%20being%20in%20a%20loving%20and%20supportive%20relationship





4. Beyond tax credits: A path to meaningful paid family leave

Elena Patel

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/beyond-tax-credits-a-path-to-meaningful-paid-family-leave/?






5. The Great Relationship Reset

https://www.singlesinamerica.com/





6. Understanding the dynamics of strategic renewal across domains: A work–home resources model perspective
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.70027


OR

https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-025-07757-z





7. Study reveals long-term mental health benefits of healthy relationship skills program for adolescents

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-reveals-term-mental-health-benefits.html




8. The Role of Relationship Education in Strengthening Attachment: Findings from the ELEVATE Program

E Coffman, R Goodrich, T Gollery, J Rujimora… - The Family Journal, 2025

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10664807251346974



9.  We need to talk about marriage 

Harry Benson, Research Director, Marriage Foundation

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MF-note-We-need-to-talk-about-marriage.pdf



10. How Does Being Phubbed Affect Commitment? Exploring the Roles of Emotional Loneliness and Relationship Satisfaction

A Aslanturk, C Arslan - Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2025

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jmft.70027




11. 20 Children's Books About Dads to Celebrate Father's Day

https://www.doinggoodtogether.org/bhf-book-lists/picture-books-about-dads




12.  Non-pharmacological interventions for mental health among partners of military members and Veterans: A systematic review 

Mijung Leea , Sunyoung Hwanga and Joohee Leea

https://utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3138/jmvfh-2023-0111




13. Romantic Relationships in Japan: A Lens for Social Policy Recommendation





Thanks

Bill
https://bio.site/billcoffin






Bill Coffin

301-625-7737 | 301-518-5657 | billcoffin68@gmail.com

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]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2202036 2025-06-05T22:49:21Z 2025-06-05T22:49:22Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. FREE COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP FOR ESTABLISHED MARRIED COUPLES

Susan Barth, Noted Marriage Educator, Founder & President, "Together in Happiness"





2. We need to talk about marriage





5. Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers

Evin Winkelman Richardson 1,✉, Jacquelyn K Mallette 2, Ted G Futris 1, Rachel Brown 1, Jessica Starke 1, Shuangyue Cui 1, Lydia Shepherd 1

 






6. Top 5 states of the USA with highest divorce rates

Kritika Priya


Business Upturn doesn’t guarantee the accuracy of the information.




7. Mind the Children: A Book Event

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM ET

With Timothy P. Carney | Naomi Schaefer Riley | Sally Satel

https://www.aei.org/events/mind-the-children-a-book-event/




8. One in three Australian men report using emotional or physical violence

https://7news.com.au/news/one-in-three-australian-men-report-using-emotional-or-physical-violence-c-18919371

OR 'Loving' fathers can help reduce violence

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/-loving-fathers-can-help-reduce-violence/105373022

https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being




10. 5 Types of Intimacy in a Healthy Marriage (Hint: 4 of Them Have Nothing to Do With Sex)









]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2200827 2025-05-29T19:13:10Z 2025-05-29T19:13:12Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Join us on Thursday, June 5, at 2:30 pm ET for a webinar—



2. I’m an adult child of divorce, and we’re not talked about enough




3. 4 Small Habits That Quietly Chip Away At Happiness In A Marriage, According To Experts

Will Curtis

https://www.yourtango.com/love/small-habits-chip-away-happiness-marriage?



4. Service Members’ Couple Finances: An Examination of Financial Anxiety, Financial Decision-Making, and Agreement on Spending and Relationship Outcomes



https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08862605251338790



6. Costs of Love: A Constrained Utility Approach to Marital Decisions and Family Outcomes

Olatunji A. Shobande






7. Stop Telling Kids the World Is a Terrible Place

Robert Pondiscio, AEI






8. Book Review: What Successful Couples Do Differently by Fred Nwakanma

Carson Abrir


Cearra O'Hern, PSU

https://www.psu.edu/news/health-and-human-development/story/chronic-loneliness-may-harm-cognitive-health-young-adults



10.  Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children’s Adult Outcomes

  Andrew C. Johnston, UC Merced 
Maggie R. Jones ,U.S. Census Bureau 
Nolan G. Pope, University of Maryland  

https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2025/CES-WP-25-28.pdf




11. JD Vance wants women to have more babies. Conservative pronatalists say cheaper housing is key.

By Eliza Relman

OR

The best natalist policy: good jobsThe makings of a second Baby Boom





12. First Things First: 9 ways for families to make the most of summer

 Lauren Hall





Thanks.
Bill



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2199431 2025-05-22T19:55:45Z 2025-05-22T19:55:46Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Majority of Gen Z would marry an AI, survey says

By Anna Iovine





2. Why Modern Parents Are Making Their Kids’ Emotional Well-Being The Top Priority

By StudyFinds Staff

https://studyfinds.org/modern-parents-prioritizing-kids-mental-health/





3. Why Love Needs New Tools (Not Just Good Intentions)

Seth Eisenberg





4. Black Families Flourishing: What Gets Measured Matters
Jun 5, 2025 02:30 PM in ET

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6zZzTse8R_i5sHw96zy0ag#/registration




5. Submit Resources to the Prevention Tools Inventory

The IPV Prevention Council 

https://preventipv.org/submit/





6. Marriage Breakdown Patterns


Author: Dr. Brindusa Vanta, Ph.D.Co-Author: Helena Georgiou






7. Religious Affiliation and the Division of Housework Over the Life Course

Luoman Bao, Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, Roseann Giarrusso


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569490925000206




8.  Emerging Adults & the Transition to the Workforce 

Emma Heinze

https://wfrn.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Heinze-Emerging-Adults-5-9-25.pdf



9.  The Effect of Mindfulness Interventions on Couple Relationship Satisfaction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 Andreas Voldstad1 , Ananda Zeas-Sigüenza2 , Anton Skolzkov3 , Mari Walthaug4 , Jesús Montero-Marín1, 5, 6, and Willem Kuyken1

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-17551-002.pdf



10. HRC  20 Years of Transforming Relationships

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJqIp8hMCAt/?img_index=2



11. FOR THE LOVE OF RELATIONSHIPS – Making Marriage and Family Formation Cool





]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2197700 2025-05-15T21:04:52Z 2025-05-15T21:04:52Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Remote Work Can Be Good for Families, Cities, and Even the Planet

By Robert VerBruggen






2. Most Hispanic Children in Families With Low Incomes Live in Unaffordable Housing





3. How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding

Susan Dominus

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/magazine/happiness-research-studies-relationships.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap&smid=url-share&unlocked_article_code=1.G08.ETLQ.sPvufKJxReIy




4. The Mental Health Crisis in Children & Teens: What Families, Therapists & Communities Can Do.


 moderator, Dr. Adrian Blow






5. Teaching Kids How to Deal With Conflict

by Juliann Garey
https://childmind.org/article/teaching-kids-how-to-deal-with-conflict/





6. Advancing Child and Youth Health Care System Transformation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief


NAS Forum for Children's Well-Being 

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29082/advancing-child-and-youth-health-care-system-transformation-proceedings-of




7. China simplifies marriage registrations, prompting surge in cross-regional couples tying the knot

By Shen Sheng

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1333785.shtml




8. Postdoctoral Fellow AU to support the work of the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative (AHMREI)

https://www.auemployment.com/postings/51112





]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2195993 2025-05-08T20:02:32Z 2025-05-08T20:02:33Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five



2. Adolescence – lessons for pastoral educators … and parents?

Noel Purdy



3.  Examining conceptualizations underlying evidence-based couples therapies: Associations of frequency and acceptance of partner behaviours and attachment with relationship functioning

 Henk Jan Conradi | Jan H. Kamphuis





4.  Young Adult Health and Mental Health at Age 22: Evidence from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study

 Tia M. Dickerson, Hye-Min Jung, and Jane Waldfogel













7. Parents’ and teens’ feelings and blind spots: Are they really seeing eye-to-eye?

 Reout Arbel and Shir Shay



OR

5 Powerful Ways to Boost Teen Mental Health






8. Measuring the Good Life

Brendan Case, Katelyn N. G. Long, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Byron R. Johnson

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/global-flourishing-study-good-life/





9. Significant Benefits of Positive Parenting Support Programs






10. Want More Kids? Make Cheaper Minivans






11. A family planning expert weighs in on the Trump administration's pronatalist policies

By Lauren Frayer






12. Impact of marriage on diagnosis and survival in patients with urological cancers


‌
]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2194372 2025-05-01T22:41:21Z 2025-05-01T22:41:21Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Why Is Social Connection So Hard for Young Adults?

 Melissa De Witte

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_is_social_connection_so_hard_for_young_adults





2.  A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation

 Emily T. Beauparlant | Xiangjing Kong | Laura V. Machia







3.  The Role of Interparental Conflict in Divergent Perceptions of Parenting

Carlie J. Sloan1,2 | Stephanie T. Lanza3 | Emily J. Forrester4 | Mark E. Feinberg1,5 | Gregory M. Fosco


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jomf.13108




4. An Initial Examination of Couple Therapy for PTSD Outcomes Among Black/African American Adults: Findings from an Uncontrolled Trial with Military Dyads

SJ Fredman, AA Gamaldo, AIC Jenkins, Y Le, JA Mogle… - Behavioral Sciences, 2025





5. Relationship quality

JB Kanter, S Sprecher, T Orbuch - Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life …, 2025






6. The Dyadic Influence of Relationship Hope on Family Functioning

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12004348/




7.  Effectiveness of relationship education among high school youth: the role of context

 Esra Şahin, Joshua J. Turner, J. Scott Crapo, Kay Bradford, & Brian Higginbotham







8.  A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety

 Claudia Dias Martins1 | Rodrigo C. Vergara2,3 | Bassam Khoury1 1







9.  MARITAL ATTITUDE AS A MEDIATOR IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARITAL SPIRITUALITY AND MARITAL COMMITMENT 

Aisya Vania Zafri, Rumaya Juhari, Zainal Madon, Zarinah Arshat and Muslihah Hasbullah@Abdullah








10. Japan’s population drops to record low as government looks to tackle birth rate issue







11. Podcast #281: Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’




12. Proposed Model State Legislation and Policy Initiative for Strengthening Marriages and Families and Reducing Divorce to Decrease Poverty and Increase Health and Human Flourishing




Thanks.
Bill




]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2189591 2025-04-10T23:09:58Z 2025-04-10T23:09:59Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. 

A Review of “Get Married” by: Brad Wilcox


Julie Abbinante

https://decidetocommit.com/a-review-of-get-married-by-brad-wilcox/



2. We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships

August I C Jenkins 1,2, TeKisha M Rice 3, Shardé McNeil Smith 1, Allen W Barton 1, Steven R H Beach 4

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11961784/



3.  Adolescents and Technology - The True Impact of Tech

PA Schaefer

https://red.mnstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2053&context=thesis




4. Life Course Insights into Social Relationship Quality: A Cross-National Analysis of 22 Countries

Renae Wilkinson, Koichiro Shiba, Cristina Gibson, Emeka Okafor, Ying Chen, Matt Bradshaw, Byron R. Johnson, i Tyler J. VanderWeele

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/n2pxk_v1





5. Teaching Kids the Art of Conflict Resolution: Managing Disputes at Any Age

https://relationshipsca.org/teaching-kids-conflict-resolution/




6.  NARME 2025

Nat'l Alli. for Relationship & Marriage Education 


https://www.narme.org/summit-2025





7. ‘Marriage and having children are like springs in the ground’ — An Interview with Catherine Pakaluk

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/interview/family-child-protection-sexual-ideologies-catherine-pakaluk/



8. Mental and Behavioral Health Disorders Are Increasing in U.S.; Effective Preventive Interventions Should Be Expanded, Report Says

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/04/mental-and-behavioral-health-disorders-are-increasing-in-u-s-effective-preventive-interventions-should-be-expanded-report-says






9. Utah slides to No. 10 for fertility in U.S.

Lois M. Collins

https://www.deseret.com/family/2025/04/07/utah-drop-fertility-rate-population-birth-immigration/




10. "Matrimonial consent in today’s secularized society”

Keynote speech by Professor Gambino at the 54th ASCAI National Congress in Pompei

https://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/news/2024/consenso-matrimoniale-nell-attuale-societa-secolarizzata.html

Footnote 20 (of 50) of the attached 15-page speech/article refers to  
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-rise-of-marriage-deserts-and-what-we-can-do-about-them



Speaking of the Vatican, we'll be on a pilgrimage to Assisi, Norcia, and Rome from 4/12-24 

Bill
Bill Coffin

301-625-7737 | 301-518-5657 | billcoffin68@gmail.com

billcoffin.org
]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2187972 2025-04-04T00:21:06Z 2025-04-04T00:21:07Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Report Release Webinar: Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorder


April 9th at 11:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/44880_04-2025_report-release-webinar-blueprint-for-a-national-prevention-infrastructure-for-mental-emotional-and-behavioral-disorders





2. The pros and cons of ‘gentle parenting’

https://whyy.org/episodes/gentle-parenting-motherhood-fatherhood/

3. America’s Missing Men

Katherine Dee





5. Fathers’ consistent parenting nurtures bonds through teen years





7. “Children will Love Like You Do”: How Adolescents’ Relationships with Parents Predict the Quality of Best Friendships and Romantic Relations







8. PTSD can undermine healthy couple communication when people fear their emotions





9. Psychological science helps build digital educational media that capitalizes on how human brains learn

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/04-05/kids-digital-educational-media

OR

58% of teens do not get enough social and emotional support, study finds

Kirsten Weir

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/04-05/teen-social-emotional-support




10. Most & Least Stressed States (2025)

Adam McCann, WalletHub Financial Writer



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2186232 2025-03-27T22:21:02Z 2025-03-27T22:21:03Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1.  Short Duration Relationship and Marriage Education (RME) during Covid-19: Outcomes and Future Directions

 Pamela B. Payne University of Nevada Reno, Naomi Brower Utah State University,  Melanie Jewkes Utah State University


https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=tcjournal




2. Paternal perinatal mental health support: fathers’ perspectives on barriers, facilitators, and preferences


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.13098




5. Divorce Rates in Australia at Lowest Level in 50 Years

Australian Institute of Family Studies





6. The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years

Brian G. Ogolsky, Kiersten Dobson, Matthew Rivas-Koehl, Ghada Kawas, Jennifer L. Hardesty

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pere.12590




7. Study: When Fewer Parents Are Married, Poverty And Violence Skyrocket

Anna Kaladish Reynolds




8. Why women are struggling with marriage

Timothy S. Goeglein







9. On this episode of Studio 2, we ask: How have gender roles in marriage changed over time? What’s worked and what hasn’t in your relationship?

Guests:

Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families and author of the forthcoming ‘For Better AND Worse: The Problematic Past and Challenging Future of Marriage’

Jo Piazza, Journalist and author of many books, including the forthcoming thriller,‘Everyone is Lying to You.’



https://whyy.org/episodes/modern-marriage-and-motherhood/




10. GOP Wants to Teach Students High School, Job, Marriage, and Kids Will Keep Them Out of Poverty



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2184213 2025-03-20T22:46:40Z 2025-03-20T22:46:41Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1.  Identifying Informal Help‐Seeking Patterns in African American Couples 

Aimee Hubbard1 | Steven Harris2 | Chalandra M. Bryant2 | Rachel Rineman2 | Doneila McIntosh2


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jmft.70008



2. Treatment Considerations for Clinicians Working with Clients During the Transition to Parenthood

By Shannon Savell, M.A., University of Virginia






4. The Marriage Gap

Harry Benson, March 2025

https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/the-marriage-gap-2/




5. Happy husband or wife really could be the key to a stress-free life

By StudyFinds Staff

•

Reviewed by Sophia Naughton

Research led by Tomiko Yoneda, University of California, Davis


https://studyfinds.org/lower-stress-as-you-age-happy-partner/




6. What science tells us about fatherhood, marriage and the struggles of young men

 Samuel Wilkinson

https://www.deseret.com/family/2025/03/12/fatherhood-marriage-masculinity-crisis-solutions/

or

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

By Brad Wilcox, Deseret News

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/how-state-policymakers-can-save-the-nuclear-family/




7. The Heart of Couples Counseling

By Melanie Padgett Powers





8. Maternal postpartum depression and children's emotional overeating: The mediating role of executive function

Samantha J. Iwinski a, Sehyun Ju a, Qiujie Gong b, Kelly K. Bost a

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471015325000054?via%3Dihub

or https://www.newsweek.com/postpartum-depression-lead-child-emotional-overeating-2047723



9. An Uninsurable and Unavailable Foster Care System: How Lawsuits, Regulations, Social Inflation, and Policy Failures Are Making the Most Vulnerable Children Uninsurable


Sid Madge


https://northernlifemagazine.co.uk/how-fathers-can-be-a-role-model-even-if-they-did-not-have-one-themselves/




11. Best age to get married, have a child, buy a home and retire? Here’s what Americans say

Jordan Lippert and Janell Fetterolf


Jaclyn DeJohn, CFP




If you picked McNeese to beat Clemson please take a bow!

Thanks
Bill


]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2182424 2025-03-13T21:53:21Z 2025-03-13T21:53:21Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. An Evaluation of Cost-Saving Reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

By Kevin Corinth, American Enterprise Institute

https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/an-evaluation-of-cost-saving-reforms-of-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program/



2. Interdisciplinary Researchers Receive $4.71 Million Grant for Longitudinal Study on Parents’ Patience in Adversity

LORI FOGLEMAN, MEDIA & PUBLIC RELATIONS

https://bcdd.soe.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/interdisciplinary-researchers-receive-471-million-grant-longitudinal-study-0



3. Yes, parents, it reflects on you: Norms and Metanorms regulating teen daughters and parents

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Stefanie Mollborn, Christine Horne






5. The Single Most Important Parenting Strategy 

Becky Kennedy | TED






5.  American Worldview Inventory 2025 – Report 2 Americans Minimize the Role of God in Their Life

  Dr. George Barna, Director of Research, Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University   





6. The simple way dads can ensure a strong bond with their daughters

By StudyFinds Staff, Research led by John Day, University of Essex




OR

Marriage Care and Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity announces new partnership

RNRM Relationship Sessions

8. Parental Stress and Well-Being: A Meta-analysis


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10567-025-00515-9



9.  U.S. Fertility Is Declining Due to Delayed Marriage and Childbearing

 Jonathan Abbamonte, Heritage Foundation

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/BG3883_0.pdf



10. Marriage 101 professors reflect on course as it turns 25





11. Purdue expert: Overall divorce rates lowest in decades but ‘gray divorce’ soars

Tim Brouk, tbrouk@purdue.edu






12. MSU study pinpoints the impact of prenatal stress across 27 weeks of pregnancy

Shelly DeJong
]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2180578 2025-03-06T03:43:14Z 2025-03-06T03:43:14Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Coming to Terms with Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: A Scoping Review

Lisa Norén
ORCID Icon,
Martin Bergström
ORCID Icon &
Lisa Wallander
ORCID Icon





2. Intellectual humility in close relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors

 Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno a,Jessica C. Reich b, Mark R. Leary c

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656625000303



3.  How Long-Term Couples Cope with Chronic Stressors and Adverse Life Course Events in Marriage: A Qualitative Study 

Christian Heim & Caroline Heim

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01926187.2025.2459688



4. Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood
Samantha A Murray‐Perdue 1,✉, Stephanie Rayburn 2, Lijuan Wang 3, E Mark Cummings 3, Julia M Braungart‐Rieker 2

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11830849/



5. Ready (or Not) For Love? Your Friends Likely Agree

Shelly DeJong

OR

Video series help youth build healthy relationships






6. Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession

Michael J. Rosenfeld

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192513X251322128




7. How parenthood may help keep your brain young

ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250226141927.htm



8. Divorce rates at lowest level in 50 years

Kate O'Connor, Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)






9. No sex until you are engaged, feminist author tells teens

Tom McArdle, The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/23/no-sex-until-you-are-engaged-feminist-author-tells-teens0/



10. Crossroads: American Family Life at the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity





11. Should we give 'gentle parenting' a time out?


https://theweek.com/culture-life/should-we-give-gentle-parenting-a-time-out



12. How the Trump Administration Can Support Healthy Marriage



]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2176980 2025-02-20T23:19:51Z 2025-02-20T23:19:52Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Timothy P. Carney | Christopher J. Scalia | Yuval Levin | Brad Wilcox | Scott Winship | Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter | Kevin Corinth | Howard Husock, American Enterprise Institute







2. Signs that Gen Z want marriage




3. Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps

 Emily Elena Dugdale and Hanisha Harjani

https://themarkup.org/investigations/2025/02/13/dating-app-tinder-hinge-cover-up



4. Family Matters: Why Our Choices Determine Our Economic Prosperity

Philip Pilkington
https://www.arcforum.com/research-papers/choices-family-matters



5. Should you be using AI in your dating life?

Chance Townsend

https://mashable.com/article/ai-for-dating



6. On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog: Examining the Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Online

Luke Hogg and Evan Swarztrauber

https://www.thefai.org/posts/on-the-internet-no-one-knows-you-re-a-dog



7.   A Credibility Revolution for Relationship Science: Where Can We Step Up Our Game? 

Samantha Joel | Paul W. Eastwick | Devinder Khera

https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/spc3.70042



8. New dads reveal conflict and guilt in the transition to parenthood

by Pauline Braniff, Deakin University


Sid Madge





10. Elon Musk Now Has 13 Children. A Conservative Pro-Family Scholar Says He’s Missing Something.

]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2175128 2025-02-13T23:12:56Z 2025-02-13T23:13:19Z Re: Candidates for IFS Friday Five
]]> Bill Coffin tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2175127 2025-02-13T23:10:26Z 2025-02-13T23:10:37Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
1. Dibble-Annual-Report

Kay Reed, Executive Director. The Dibble Institute®   




2. https://www.marriageweek.org/live-events

Friday, February 14 (last one!)

Nurturing Emotions & Romance 

Day 8 Virtual Event3.





3. The Antidote to News: Real Life Here and Now





4. Media and Technoference in Romantic Relationships

USU EXTENSION


https://extension.usu.edu/strongermarriage/courses/media-and-technoference-in-romantic-relationships/#/



5. Alienating behaviours in separated mothers and fathers in the UK
  • Professor Ben Hine, Professor of Applied Psychology
  • Jennifer Harman, Associate Professor, Colorado State University
  • Sadie Leder-Elder, Associate Professor of Psychology, High Point University
  • Elizabeth Bates, Associate Professor in Family Violence and Abuse, University of Cumbria


    • https://www.uwl.ac.uk/research/research-impact/family-breakdown



    6. Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling

    DR Corey, KY Billingsley, CL Conner - …

    Tavistock Relationships

    https://watermark.silverchair.com/11791010.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA2wwggNoBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggNZMIIDVQIBADCCA04GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM3KKuQn_WZ20XD5PoAgEQgIIDH4I_2_pdTiWmlax3b6gtKW0rnkPXMHvs-xofxfowkK0PfmOx31Efsxu1n-gLnLoJgyhPTFz8fL007VJkWsc4sX6HpHXgYXUj_0ca8UCru4MUekkC3qyR24eha7-TS9jiHg2VXC6DvdOFA9Eb6rC-RPhtod6FM-N4_CIgfxaQxOm6fvv4INr0ipNyHiPYIVGRTNNUwCzZ8ghL24EwW78KJkmzXoUC8xvR46V1PZn2KnalqZsHJhVFn32wj4OWh25tHGpR30mFKTFBWr2LP0qiZNJoNE7HJ_-rl4mLB4s-jM16z8zaZ9NPsHqreUZPmNs321fkrHC4wgKrKcor-OTECTkNLOK-WSXCRsbjhOPkl7qKZRJZs15Ar1N516UUTZQc1VuVsjSuRIK_XXPo9E6E45wkLyDml5-Pk6zeDi-A081DmdA8nJBXmXEzXhJEGTGzo3KrQ-Ksu-Pr0wfIVy8RdYcOVzsYBbMgCaTNNcaCQIeaI5EDZNraLyBg8NII8PHjM-1mZHHjWKizESfMGYgtCpjjvC5CpZEswi6to282e2uaa7sg0c0HoYp1h6w0RCaOBT9-RvFgYW6mjua4KF18APRUZmKNsN1ktRDziuo4ygBwN0bCKhM83Fjm576ViZPDDCfQP6gD4zhzPmSapBMXFKusqRwi242nDf7tTdoAld5y2_yY_WhVXfPJdqFYxu7hvj1PdCwJuh9WiPli56jNoPnzp9DvivzQrgCLIseWeDvRgfSVAAYfJ8ML4nr_D82C4m9MqINL9inyXNLsd6KGDWXel2JJS3bDmd_bIrgF_XLBa4xusbJdcoAp7FLEliMXtFwYJvgqqQHcb_5MfkExjpcEbBzhP6ujMt0ZlN2eIiepluSXmrdQP0-IdO8yzo3zyLPz0J4p2X_fubYpnZDU0h5pRWI-Icv6NK3fTiD_v9phlo2zq6uDUGls2iAUYetr6kE4F7-ZN_q1crDsKudLDPbTqdYynhBLqAnMekw9lCQukTrNJ2EgwMttaFqs4qJKFyy2DwGNS94hm_Ys14Q1EJJuYgVx4NLLPlJ6x1qeMkc





    9. ‘Sexlessness’ is on the rise. Can the Church use this moment to promote marriage?

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262165/sexlessness-is-on-the-rise-can-the-church-use-this-moment-to-promote-marriage




    10. Study finds dating isn't broken, but relationship paths have evolved

    by Sharita Forrest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



    OR

    The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years







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    Bill


    ]]>     Bill Coffin     tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2173526 2025-02-06T22:10:26Z 2025-02-06T22:10:26Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
    1. Strengthening marriage – one date night at a time

    THERESA BREITENBACH





    2. Marriage and the stable society: The continued importance of marriage

    Daniel Lilley

    https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/marriage-and-the-stable-society/



    3. The Five Stages of Western Fertility

    Written by ArctotheriumAporia


    https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-five-stages-of-western-fertility



    4. How marriage counseling might just save American democracy

    By StudyFinds Staff

    https://studyfinds.org/marriage-counseling-democracy-political-polarization/



    5. A digital intervention to enhance couple relationships, the Paired app: mixed methods evaluation

    Aicken, C., Gabb, J., Di Martino, S.






    6.  Interparental mutually responsive orientation during pregnancy impacts toddler socioemotional development by promoting parent-infant relational dynamics

     Erin L. Ramsdell1,2 , Lauren M. Laifer1 , Kelsey McCoy1 and Rebecca L. Brock1











    9. 8 Essentials of a Lasting Love (one each night starting tomorrow)




    10. What Are the 6 Types of Intimacy?


    Genee Francis, assistant director of content and programming at WinShape Marriage































    ]]>     Bill Coffin     tag:billcoffin.org,2013:Post/2172122 2025-01-31T00:00:58Z 2025-01-31T00:01:05Z Candidates for IFS Friday Five
    1. The 10th Annual American Family Survey: Opportunities and Obstacles to a Broad-Based Political Coalition for Families

    Thursday, February 6, 2025, | 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET With Daniel A. Cox | Brad Wilcox





    2.  The Values and Rituals of Authentic Relationships: What the Relationship Enhancement Model Teaches Us about Marriage

     Robert F. Scuka, Ph.D., M.S.W., LCSW-C





    3.  “The beginning of children's stimulation”.

    International Federation for Family Development




    4. Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships

    H. Wallace Goddard, PhD and James P. Marshall, PhD

    https://www.uaex.uada.edu/life-skills-wellness/personal-family-well-being/personal/getting-hearts-right.aspx



    5. Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood

    Shannon M Savell 1,, Lauren V Breeden 1, Robert E Emery 1

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11753894/




    6. American Greatness Depends on Strong Families

    By Brad Wilcox | Chris Bullivant, Commonplace






    7. The Effects of Parenting Styles on Children's Emotional and Social Skill Development: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Skills

    Jie Zheng1

    https://leger360.com/the-youth-study/









    11. 3 Keys to Igniting Your Fatherhood Program in 2025


    Antoine Johnson, NFI

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