This tips sheet is intended to aide practitioners in the development and implementation of relationship and marriage education programs for recently immigrated Hispanic couples.
Using Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Data (N=4,342), this paper examines why relationship status matters for maternal health behaviors. The paper argues that a mother’s decisions on how muchto invest in her child are partly driven by her perception of how committed the father is to their relationship. Results show that several relationship dynamics measures, […]
This document outlines several important areas that program leaders should consider when developing services for Hispanic couples. Hispanic family researchers, national marriage researchers, and service providers discussed issues related to program leadership at a national forum convened by the Administration for Children and Families. This memo summarizes these discussions. Experts were convened on September 15 […]
While a considerable amount of research has explored the nature and consequences of childbearing by unmarried young women, little is known about the men who father children with these women. This study uses new data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe the economic and social/behavioral capacities of men who have children […]
A summary of best practices for program leaders and facilitators is based on lessons learned from Hispanic researchers and practioners.
This paper examines the effects of incarceration on marriage and family life. The paper reports on three empirical analyses. First, estimates show that incarcerated men are only about half as likely to be married as noninstituional men of the same age, however they are just as likely to have children. By 2000, more than 2 […]
Marriage and relationship education (MRE) recently has become a tool of public policy to help couples form and sustain healthy marriages. With increased public funds comes increased public scrutiny. In this meta-analytic study, we examined the effects of MRE on two common outcomes: relationship satisfaction/quality and relationship communication. A thorough search produced 133 codable reports […]
Why are so many Americans enchanted with the idea of marriage but increasingly disenchanted with beingmarried? This paper will try to shed light on that question by looking at recent social scienceresearch on patterns and predictors of marital success and failure. Social science is better equipped to make generalizations about groups than it is to […]
This brief examines the prevalence of multipartnered fertility at the beginning of the 21st century and identifies factors that are associated with this increasingly-common family situation. Specifically, we assess the prevalence of multipartnered fertility among unmarried and married parents, and we describe the individual and couple characteristics that are associated with multipartnered fertility for mothers […]
In recent years, the number of fragile families has risen markedly in urban America. Nevertheless, no research has yet determined if religious participation is associated with higher levels of relationship quality and lower levels of domestic violence among parents in fragile families. Research on religion and married parents indicates that religious participation is associated with […]