09 Jan
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Love’s Cradle Leader’s Guide : Building Strong Families Through Relationships Enhancement. [Part I – Core Program]

The Love’s Cradle Leader’s Guide includes all 22 two-hour sessions of the Love’s Cradle Program as used in the Building Strong Families project in Texas. This includes the initial eight two-hour sessions that combine training in RE skills with discussion of issues around new parenting, the supplemental curriculum for Building Trust, the Meaning of Marriage, […]

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09 Jan
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Love’s Cradle and Mastering the Magic of Love [Instructional Video]

This 65 minute video provides examples of Relationship Enhancement skills and dialogues with an African-American and a Caucasian Couple. Combined with either of the Relationship Enhancement Dialogue Demonstration Videos, you will have video demonstrations for all the Relationship Enhancement skills except Generalization and Maintenance. Contents include: The Difference Skills Make: Unskilled (Dan and Gail) The […]

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09 Jan
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Trends in Median Age at First Marriage

The median age at first marriage in the United States has been rising steadily since the 1960s for both males and females. In 1960, the median age at first marriage was 20.3 for females and 22.8 for males. By 2004, these ages had risen to 25.8 years for females and 27.4 years for males. This […]

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09 Jan
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Family Structure and Fathers’ Well-Being: Trajectories of Mental and Physical Health

A vast literature has assessed the relationship between marital status and health, but very little has tracked changes in health trajectories following family structure transitions, especially among unmarried fathers. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study this paper examines trajectories of paternal mental and physical health, specifically focusing on transitions into and […]

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