Candidates for IFS Friday Five

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

Lisa Norén
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Martin Bergström
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Lisa Wallander
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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



Candidates for IFS Friday Five

1. How to Help Students Learn to Listen to Each Other’s Stories

Jessica Fagen

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



2. UNM professor creates educational tool for professionals, families going through contentious divorces

By Alexa Skonieski

https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-professor-creates-educational-tool-for-professionals-families-going-through-contentious-divorces



3. Family and Contemporary Megatrends

 hosted by the State of Qatar and organized by the Doha International Family Institute, to be held from 29 to 31 October 2024”

https://www.difi.org.qa/iyf30/



4. What Parents Can Do Now

https://www.afterbabel.com/t/what-parents-can-do-now

or https://www.afterbabel.com/p/what-actually-matters-kids-screens



5. Want to Boost Birthrates? Build More Homes

John Ketcham

https://www.city-journal.org/article/want-to-boost-birthrates-build-more-homes?




6. California is tackling addictive social media feeds at the state level

 

https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/09/23/california-social-media-youth-mental-health-algorithm-law/




7. Director of Communities of Practice (CoP)– NARME

https://www.narme.org/job-openings

OR

The Institute for Family Studies is Seeking a New President

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-institute-for-family-studies-is-seeking-a-new-president



8. WORKING WITH FATHERS
L Anderson, E Fernandez - The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social …, 2024
… The findings of this study are particularly relevant to child protection practice,
policy, and education. The finding that caseworker approaches to fathers are
influential in encouraging fathers' involvement, such as being respectful, flexible …

https://books.google.com/books?id=egMjEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA231&dq=marriage+and+relationship+education&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q=marriage%20and%20relationship%20education&f=false




9. We Have Spent Time, Money, and Effort Making Self-Help Digital Mental Health Interventions: Is Anyone Going to Come to the Party?

https://www.jmir.org/2024/1/e58198/



10.  Do you still find me physically attractive? Partners’ daily perceptions of attractiveness during the transition to parenthood

Rachel S. Blickman, Marci E. J. Gleason, and Lisa A. Neff  

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/02654075241280666



11.  Childlessness in Korea: Role of education, marriage postponement, and marital childlessness

Misun Lee, Kryštof Zeman  

https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol51/21/51-21.pdf



12. 1 in 4 young Americans claim they’re too poor to have children, but many put off kids for other reasons

Jillian Schneider

https://readlion.com/1-in-4-young-americans-claim-theyre-too-poor-to-have-children-but-many-put-off-kids-for-other-reasons/




13. Kiss, Miss, or Hiss- The Best, Worst or Weirdest Marriage Advice Unveiled: The Finalists!

 Melissa Grant

https://livingsnoqualmie.com/kiss-miss-or-hiss-the-best-worst-or-weirdest-marriage-advice-unveiled-the-finalists/



Thanks
Bill