Marriage and Child Wellbeing Revisited Future of Children Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2015 Marriage is on the decline, and a growing proportion of children are born to unmarried parents, many of them in unstable cohabiting unions. Research increasingly shows that family instability affects children’s cognitive and social-emotional development in ways that constrain their […]
Current Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Healthy Relationship Programs This paper describes current approaches used by healthy relationship programs recently funded by the Administration for Children and Families to address intimate partner violence (IPV) and teen dating violence (TDV). This summary does not describe best practices, but will help lay the foundation […]
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grants. Nearly $111 million has been awarded to 91 grantees in 28 states and 1 territory. New Pathways for Fathers and Families, and Responsible Fatherhood Opportunities for Reentry and Mobility (ReFORM) grants aim to strengthen positive father-child engagement, improve fathers’ employment outcomes and foster healthy relationships. The Healthy Marriage […]
This July 2015 paper reviews the research on relationship education and relationship counselling. The paper investigates the effectiveness of these strategies in working with couples who are at varying stages of their relationship – from highly satisfied at the beginning of their relationship, to highly distressed and considering separation. The paper addresses some of the […]
Looking for creative approaches to longstanding problems? Learn more about design thinking and how three OFA grantees used it to tackle programmatic challenges by reading OFA's recent publication. Read more.
Oklahoma State Rep. Mark McCullough, who requested a legislative study to review the progress made by the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (Project Relate), releases a statement praising the work of the initiative. “We heard today about the OMI’s continued success at providing pre-marital education to Oklahomans, a service that greatly improves a couple’s chances of […]
Read Ron Haskins' blog post on his new book, Show Me the Evidence and enter a contest to receive a copy of the book by nominating a program that you think is an example of an effective government program. Read More
Don’t Dump Couple Relationship Education Until Co-Parenting Support Has Been Included And The Benefits For Children Are Known | Read More
The Marriage Foundation (UK) and the Sunday Times co-hosted a debate entitled "Is there a difference between marriage and cohabitation: should all cohabiting couples be treated the same?". There has been a lot of debate in the media recently on whether couples who have decided to cohabit rather than marry should have any claims against […]
The context of marriage in the United States involves not only whether and when Americans choose to marry, but also how many times they marry. The majority of recent marriages are first marriages for both spouses. However, divorce rates are higher in the United States compared with European nations, and remarried adults have a higher […]