Researchers at the Relationships, Emotion and Health Lab at San Fransico State University followed 127 middle-aged and older long-term married couples across 13 years, checking in to see how they communicated about conflicts from housework to finances. The researchers found that while most aspects of demand-withdraw communication remained steady over time, both husbands and wives […]
"Marriages among many of the nation's elite troops — Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Rangers and others — are so damaged after years of war that one in five commandos say that if given the chance, they would have married someone else or not at all. The results of a first-ever survey of special operations […]
Relationship problems can keep us awake at night. But new research from UC Berkeley suggests that sleepless nights also can worsen lovers’ fights. UC Berkeley psychologists Amie Gordon and Serena Chen have found that people are much more likely to lash out at their romantic partners over relationship conflicts after a bad night’s sleep. […]
The real question here isn't "Why so many babies?" It's "Why so few marriages?" And we have an answer. Derek Thompson | Atlantic Monthly Read more
Marriage conference and class for active/reserve military and veterans. FREE to the first 20 couples to register. On Saturday, July 13, Better Marriages is partnering with Marriage Management to offer a FREE 6-hour class for active/reserve and veteran military couples. Enter "No Payment Required" on the online registration checkout page. www.BetterMarriages.org/conference
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Region IV, Hispanic Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood Strengthening Families Forum: A Conversation: Connecting, Educating and Networking with Communities. This Forum is designed specifically for faith and community-based organizations, healthy marriage community coalitions, colleges and universities, healthy marriage and fatherhood grantees, public and private organizations, Head Start and Community […]
Audio Conference Sponsored by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | 2-3 P.M. EDT Do urban poor dads live up to their image as “dead-beats” or do they really care about their kids? Often vilified across the political spectrum, unwed fathers in the inner city are the subject of a […]
More than a third of marriages between 2005 and 2012 began online, according to new research at the University of Chicago, which also found that online couples have happier, longer marriages. Although the study did not determine why relationships that started online were more successful, the reasons may include the strong motivations of online […]
Two Reports on disseminating findings from human services research OPRE released a review of literature, titled "Human Services Research Dissemination: What Works?" A companion piece, "The Value-Added Research Dissemination Framework," builds on this literature to construct a framework for dissemination. The literature review and framework are designed to assist researchers in ensuring that their work […]