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 […]
The Administration for Children and Families presents the Strengthening Families Evidence Review Read More.
New Brigham Young University research finds that people in happy marriages live less “in sickness” but enjoy more of life “in health.” In a 20-year longitudinal study tracking health and marriage quality, BYU family life researcher Rick Miller found that as the quality of marriage holds up over the years, physical health holds up too. […]
Bernstein describes the results of a series of six studies that followed 100 couples for the first seven years of marriage. Researchers at the University of Iowa found that both husbands and wives feel lower marital satisfaction when they are given too much advice from a spouse, as opposed to too little. And—surprise!—unsolicited advice is […]
New Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative report on cultural strategies to enhance program participation Read more and download.
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 […]