This memo outlines issues raised regarding traditional Hispanic gender roles and the importance of the extended family as presented during the Administration for Children and Families Hispanic Healthy Marriage Research meeting. The findings and recommendations in this memo are drawn from discussions at the Supporting Healthy Marriage and Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative Joint Research Meeting […]
This paper reviews the large literature on family change. Ultimately we want to know how well social scientists really can explain the intertemporal changes in the prevalence of single parent families, particularly the variations across groups. We also want to identify places we might look for further answers. To do this we will need to […]
When providing marriage and relationship education to Hispanic couples, practitioners must be aware of a multitude of cultural components that influence how couples will respond to a curriculum, or if the curriculum will even be effective as a learning device. Adaptations must be made on a variety of issues to ensure that the concepts and […]
Marriage promotion has taken a prominent position on the public policy agenda as a solution for economic hardship and “”undesirable”” social behavior. The most extensive legislation that promotes marriage as a way to combat poverty is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Given the higher rate of single parenthood, and the […]
Marriage and divorce have typically been viewed asthe province of state government. It is state law thatdetermines the conditions of entry into and exit out of marriage, and establishes the legal obligations and rights of spouses toward one another. State and local court decisions interpret and help enforce these laws. Over the past century, changes […]
The recent literature on the effects of welfare on marriage and fertility includes studiesemploying a wide variety of methodologies and data sets and covering different time periods. A majorityof the studies show that welfare has a significantly negative effect on marriage or positive effect onfertility rather than none at all, and thus the current consensus […]
Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq […]
The extent and implications of cohabitation and marriage among US welfare recipients are investigated. An analysis of 4 data sets shows significant numbers of cohabitors among recipients of AFDC. An even more surprising finding is the large number of married women on welfare. The results of a telephone survey of state AFDC agencies is also […]
Measures of communication and aggression, taken from 56 newlywed couples, were used to predict marital outcomes 4 years later. Aggression discriminated between separated or divorced couples and those who remained married. In contrast, communication discriminated between couples who were maritally satisfied after 4 years and those who were married but dissatisfied. Thus, over the 1st […]
On November 15 and 16, 2001, more than 50 researchers, policymakers, practitioners, corrections officials, and other specialists in the field of fathers and families gathered in Philadelphia, PA, to convene the National Center on Fathers and Families’ (NCOFF) “”Roundtable on Constructing and Coping with Incarceration and Family Re-Entry: Perspectives from the Field.”” The discussion at […]