Marriage Opportunity: The Moment for National Action | Marriage Opportunity Council Institute for American Values, 2015 A public appeal from 103 U.S. scholars and leaders to "make marriage achievable for all who seek it" by reducing legal, social, and economic barriers to marriage. The statement also announces the formation of the Marriage Opportunity Council, […]
Responding to public comments, a new set of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood performance measures have been proposed (an additional set of instruments for a cross-site evaluation with a subset of grantees have also been proposed). Please see a short overview at: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/03/23/2015-06534/submission-for-omb-review-comment-request. This Notice has information on how to request a document containing all […]
What can couples do to avoid divorce? Hundreds of books, articles, workshops, and lectures have tackled that question. If there were a surefire way to “divorce-proof” a marriage, we would have found it by now. It doesn’t exist. But there are some things married couples can do to minimize their risk of divorce. In a […]
New research brief, webinar on low-income Hispanic families Webinar Feb. 11, 2015, 1:30 p.m. ET The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families is offering a webinar on its new research brief, "The Complex and Varied Households of Low-Income Hispanic Children." The brief looks at the composition of households of low-income Hispanic children, including […]
A framework put forward by the Friends of Evidence that explores the question: How do we use a framework of continuous learning to obtain and apply the kinds of evidence that will be most useful in achieving significantly greater outcomes? Read more about CSSP, Friends of Evidence and the 2014 Symposium on the Future […]
A new Report from the Center for American Progress recommends a new framework for family policy including a pilot study of couples counseling and urging the continuation of relationship education for High School students. Read more and download the report.
On January 8, the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) released a letter encouraging the use of the Job-Driven Training Checklist to make employment and training programs under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), and Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grants more […]
Married people have a much greater chance of happiness than others, according to David Cameron’s survey of the nation’s wellbeing reports the Daily Mail. Almost a third of husbands and wives rate their level of life satisfaction at the very top of the Prime Minister’s ten-point happiness scale, figures published yesterday show. Just over a […]
This report provides detailed summaries of major research investments by OPRE’s Division of Family Strengthening (DFS) along with brief overviews of past projects. Read more.
Family Structure and Family Formationamong Low-Income Hispanics in the U.S. Elizabeth Wildsmith, Mindy Scott, Lina Guzman, and Elizabeth Cook The National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families This research brief, from the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, provides […]