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



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



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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‌

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)









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



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





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





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


‌

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




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