This article explores the experiences and feelings fathers may have during a pregnancy and childbirth. It discusses how paternal developmental processes occurring during pregnancy are influenced by such factors as whether the pregnancy is planned or unplanned, the quality of the partner relationship, previous experiences with childbearing and childrearing, paternal and maternal age, educational level, […]
Busby et al present the conceptual model underlying RELATE, a relationship evaluation instrument, and describe how this instrument can be used by instructors, clinicians and therapists. The RELATE model contains measures of the four primary contexts of a couple’s experience: The individual, the family, the culture, and the couple. (Author abstract).
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that non-marital childbearing and marital dissolution were undermining the progress of African Americans. McLanahan argues that what Moynihan identified as a race-specific problem in the 1960s has now become a classbased phenomena as well. Using data from a new birth cohort study, the author shows that unmarried parents come […]
This fact sheet describes the 2006 National Hispanic Healthy Marriage Conference (HHMC), which was a first-time conference for researchers and practitioners focused on issues of marriage and family formation in the Hispanic community. The Administration of Children and Families’ Department of Health and Human Services hosted the conference with sponsorship from the Annie E. Casey […]
Over 2.5 million students across the country complete their high school education each year. How many of these students will emerge from their adolescent years with the skills and information they need to choose a life partner and form a healthy marriage and stable family? To increase the odds that young people in Oklahoma will […]
This indicator brief outlines six broad strategies for increasing the percentage of children living in two-parent families: address the linkages between economic security and stable families, discourage nonmarital childbearing and encourage family formation, remove obstacles to marriage, adopt policies aimed at increasing the chances of marital success, ensure that children benefit from both parents’ emotional […]
This analysis, based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, examines new parents attitudes towards child support enforcement and fathers’ rights and obligations. Additionally, it looks at whether couples agree or disagree on these issues, and whether their disagreements are likely to lead to conflict with possible negative repercussions for their children. […]
Whether you need more money just to make ends meet, are working towards getting out of debt, paying for college or buying a home, or looking for ways to increase your giving ? here’s a helpful list of cash generating ideas. (Author abstract)
This brief uses new data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine how welfare and child support policies, as well as labor market conditions, affect family formation among unwed couples in urban areas who gave birth in the late 1990s. Baseline data from interviews at the child’s birth and data from one-year […]
This article provides tips and ideas for establishing your own family traditions for the holidays.