To improve the quality and stability of couple and father-child relationships in fragile families, researchers are beginning to consider how to tailor existing couple-relationship and father-involvement interventions, which are now targeted on married couples, to the specific needs of unwed couples in fragile families. The goal, explain Philip Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Virginia Knox, […]
This new edition of Passage to Intimacy is published by popular request to add more of the PAIRS powerful concepts and experiences that have been known to dramatically transform relationships. Since the first edition of Passage to Intimacy was published a number of dissertations have been written that have researched and validated the effectiveness and […]
Isabel Sawhill, Adam Thomas, and Emily Monea believe that given the well-documented costs of nonmarital births to the children and parents in fragile families, as well as to society as a whole, policy makers primary goal should be to reduce births to unmarried parents. The authors say that the nation's swiftly rising nonmarital birth rate […]
Lori H. Gordon tackles those everyday frustrations that cause arguments and confusion, lead to endless misunderstandings, and sabotage joy in relationships. Gordon has found that the source of a relationship’s trouble often involves love knots or those hidden expectations and assumptions or beliefs that we bring to intimate relationships. Love knots act like land mines; […]
Since the mid-1970s the U.S. imprisonment rate has increased roughly fivefold. As Christopher Wildeman and Bruce Western explain, the effects of this sea change in the imprisonment rate–commonly called mass imprisonment or the prison boom–have been concentrated among those most likely to form fragile families: poor and minority men with little schooling. Imprisonment diminishes the […]
This 12-hour research-based, educational program curriculum is for couples in stepfamilies and their children, and focuses on building couple and family strength. The program uses: informational presentations, hands-on exercises, group discussions, and media. The 300+ page Curriculum includes: leader lesson guides for adult and child programs, background readings, hand-out masters, resource list pre/post evaluation questionnaires, […]
Adoption professionals and those in the marriage and relationship education (MRE) field are becoming more aware of the special issues adoptive couples face in their marriages. Practitioners from both disciplines may want to consider ways to bridge these two fields together by offering MRE classes in adoptive-parent training at both public and private adoption agencies […]
Survive, Strive, Thrive: Keys to Healthy Family Living is a 15-unit curriculum that takes teens and adults from day-to-day surviving to thriving at home, at school, at work and in their communities by teaching basic life skills in key areas: – Goal Setting – Making Good Decisions – Self-Esteem – Coping Skills – Anger/Conflict Management […]
Economically disadvantaged children are more likely to grow up in unstable single-parent households and have much less access to the financial and emotional support of their noncustodial parent (typically the father). Family instability places children at risk for a number of negative outcomes and plays a large part in the growing disparities of income and […]
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, […]