As a punishing rain lashed across the narrow peninsula of Ocean City, Heidi and Kirk Noll stood facing each other in a windowless conference room of the aging Carousel Resort Hotel. Read More

USCRI is helping refugee families build healthy, loving relationships, as they build a new life in America. Read More

Caring for a sick or disabled elderly relative exacts a toll — physical, emotional, financial — on any family member, but being a spousal caregiver brings particular challenges. Read More

Call them blended families, bonus families or para-kin. Just don't call them stepfamilies. The term – seared into our consciousness through fairy tales and Disney movies – is falling out of favor, even as the ranks of nontraditional families are expanding. A new poll estimates that at least four in 10 Americans consider themselves part […]

Time: Shelly Sundstrom knew she didn't have much of it. Days, hours, minutes were slipping away – but Sundstrom knew what she wanted to do. She wanted to marry Jay Ellison. And he wanted to marry her. But when? And, more problematically, how? Neither of them had the stamina to plan a wedding. Shelly, 48, […]

Marriages between spouses of different races and ethnicities are more common than ever before, say authors of a report by the Pew Research Center. Read More

They are high-school sweethearts who seemed happily married for 40 years after raising four children. But the announcement that Al and Tipper Gore were splitting up was not a surprise to researchers who study the most divorcing cohort in American history. Read More

Americans strongly believe that having a father and a mother in the home is essential to a child's happiness, although a significant minority of the nation's children still live at least part of their formative years without their fathers in the home. Findings like these galvanize the "responsible fatherhood" movement to investigate ways to improve […]

Back in the 1970s, before we met Dr. Phil; ate, prayed, and loved; and saw a British prince arrange his own marriage, it seemed like the institution of wedlock was doomed. "The divorce rate was going up at an incredible rate. One of the things people were thinking at that time was, 'Wow, does this […]

Americans without a college degree bore the brunt of the recent recession, and so did their marriages, according to a new report by researchers at the University of Virginia. The "Survey of Marital Generosity," conducted on behalf of U-Va.'s National Marriage Project, found that 29 percent of couples reported that the 2007-09 downturn had put […]