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 […]
Mr. Howard Hendrick, Director, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, appears before Congress to share the genesis and status of Oklahoma’s strategy to strengthen marriages and reduce divorce.
The effectiveness of marriage education was evaluated in two separate samples of primarily married couples in which at least one member of the couple was on active duty in the U.S. Army. The intervention was delivered by Army chaplains. Effects replicated well in the two samples, and demonstrated that marriage education was well received by […]