Previous studies have shown that men with younger wives live longer. While it had long been assumed that women with younger husbands also live longer, in a new study Sven Drefahl from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, has shown that this is not the case. Read More

Relationship Skills Education and Child Support: Evidence from a Program Partnership in Texas. This report evaluates the impact of a partnership between the relationship education program Building Strong Families, and the Child Support Division of the Texas Office of the Attorney General, on child support orders, child support payments, and father involvement. Read More.

The research evidence suggests that parents' relationship with each other should be a fundamental consideration in future programs aimed at increasing low-income fathers' involvement with their children. Read More

The transformative trends of the past 50 years that have led to a sharp decline in marriage and a rise of new family forms have been shaped by attitudes and behaviors that differ by class, age and race, according to a new Pew Research Center nationwide survey, done in association with TIME, complemented by an […]

Imagine that you see two people in the distance walking alongside each other down a busy sidewalk. Maybe they are a couple. Maybe they just happen to be heading in the same direction. In a crowd of people on a city street, it's hard to tell. That same challenge arises when researchers look at possible […]

The Future of Children, a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, has just released their Fall 2010 journal, entitled Fragile Families. The executive summary of the journal reads: "The swift rise in nonmarital childbearing in the United States over the past fifty years […]

Throughout history, marriage and parenthood have been linked milestones on the journey to adulthood. But for the young adults of the Millennial Generation1, these social institutions are becoming delinked and differently valued. Today’s 18- to 29-year-olds value parenthood far more than marriage, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of attitudinal surveys. A 2010 […]

The NHMRC, Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Innovation Center have just released their report outlining ways that relationship education and pregnancy prevention can work together. Relationships Matter: Partnering to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy is the report from a conference held in 2010 that brought together experts and practitioners in both relationship education and pregnancy prevention. […]

A new portrait of single Americans, drawn from a major new survey, suggests the attitudes and behaviors of today's singles are quite unlike their counterparts just a few decades ago. Findings show men are more interested in love, marriage and children than their peers in earlier times; women want more independence in their relationships than […]

Child Trends has released a new research brief entitled: Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationships: Diverse, Sometimes Violent, Often Loving, which analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to identify important factors about the nature and quality of these relationships that may have long-term consequences. Among the findings: Read the brief. Young […]