The United States Conference of Mayors’Council for the New American City and the Dollar Wi$e Campaign have compiled this Financial Education Curriculum Matrix for use by cities in implementing local financial literacy campaigns. The purpose of this Matrix is to array financial education materials that meet a number of criteria established by the Dollar Wi$e […]
This article reports on the development and long-term evaluation of a marital distress prevention program for German couples, the Ein Partnerschaftliches Lernprogramm (EPL, A Couple’s Learning Program). The EPL is a 6-session program designed to teach couples effective communication and problem-solving skills. In the current article, the EPL is evaluated in a prospective, quasi-experimental, controlled […]
Mr. Howard Hendrick, Director, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, addresses Congress to share some of Oklahoma’s welfare reform successes, with a particular emphasis on family strengthening efforts consistent with the express purposes of TANF to promote marriage. Mr. Hendrick also proposes family strengthening strategies.
This article reports the results on marriages of a randomized clinical trial for couples experiencing the transition to parenthood. In addition to a control group, there was 1 intervention, a psycho-communicative-educational 2-day couples’ workshop. The outcome measures were marital quality, postpartum depression, and expressed hostile affect (assessed using an observational coding of marital conflict discussions […]
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 […]
The specific aims of this study included the following: 1) assess attitudes about intimate relationships, marriage, divorce, and cohabitation; 2) gather data on couple’s relationships quality; 3) assess knowledge and acceptance of relationship education; collect demographic data on patterns of cohabitation, intent to marry, marriage, divorce, and remarriage among Oklahomans; and 5) collect data on […]
This paper examines gender differences in out-marriage rates in the United States among 16 race and ethnic groups. Among most groups of Asian Americans, females are more likely to marry whites than are their male counterparts, the reverse of the pattern among African Americans discussed by Merton (1941). We find some Hispanic-American groups in both […]
In order to effectively serve the Hispanic population, program developers must ensure that marriage education curricula are adapted to reach Hispanic couples. Not all existing marriage education curricula need extensive adaptation to achieve this. In some cases, only minor modifications may be necessary for a curriculum to be culturally specific and relevant. This tips sheet […]
This article uses new data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to examine the reasons why white, Mexican American, and other Hispanic parents are approximately 2.5 times more likely than African American parents to marry within the 30 months after a nonmarital birth. Combining Fragile Families microdata with 2000 U.S. Census data shows […]