Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and companionship. But sometimes we need a little help. Enter Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and “the best couple therapist in the world,” according to bestselling […]

In his first book for adults, the New York Times bestselling author sparks honest dialogues between men and women, in the tradition of Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Only 34 percent of African-American children today are raised in two- parent households, a sharp contrast to 1966, when 85 percent of […]

As many as one-third of all American women tiptoe through life as if they are walking on eggshells — at home, they spend most of their time trying to avoid criticism, anger, put-downs, or cold shoulders from their husbands or boyfriends. This verbal and emotional abuse can erupt over anything and everything, matters large and […]

While there are many self-help books addressing marriage issues, none is as pointed and straightforward as O’Neill’s A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage. Like her highly acclaimed short book, Sheltering Thoughts: About Loss and Grief, this book will speak to its readers through its directness and simplicity. It challenges readers to understand and live […]

If there’s one thing you can do to significantly improve your marriage, it’s to begin to show empathy to your spouse. This study will help couples discover how to better understand and integrate the critical concept of empathy within the context of marriage. It will provide solid, step-by-step, biblical teaching on how to reduce conflict, […]

The Marriage-Go-Round illuminates the shifting nature of America’s most cherished social institution and explains its striking differences from marriage in other Western countries. Andrew J. Cherlin’s three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn't in other developed countries. Americans marry […]

This updated handbook is used with the For Our Future, For Our Family curriculum, which focuses on many of the key exercises that have been of greatest value to participants and allow for the incorporation of new technologies into the teaching processes. PAIRS is research-validated, evidence-based intensive skills training for couples and singles in any […]

Rising rates of nonmarital childbirth in the United States have resulted in a new family type, the fragile family. Such families, which include cohabiting couples as well as single mothers, experience significantly higher rates of poverty and material hardship than their married counterparts. Ariel Kalil and Rebecca Ryan summarize the economic challenges facing mothers in […]

Sculpt Your Personal Relationship Road Map with these Conversations that Matter. Powerful tools for sculpting your personal relationship road map to wishes, hopes and dreams come true, the PAIRS Contracting Workbook reinforces key exercises from PAIRS Essentials in a guided journey through personal goals and ambitions for love and life. Includes dozens of conversations that […]

Young, minority, and poorly educated fathers in fragile families have little capacity to support their children financially and are hard-pressed to maintain stability in raising those children. In this article, Robert Lerman examines the capabilities and contributions of unwed fathers, how their capabilities and contributions fall short of those of married fathers, how those capabilities […]