This historical article discusses findings from a study that investigated the impact of a child on 46 married couples with children. Findings indicate 38 of the couples experienced extensive or severe crisis in adjusting to their first child, the crisis pattern occurred in marriages that were good or poor, and the 38 couples had romanticized […]
This brief explores what role fathers play in perpetrating or protecting their children from child neglect and abuse. Studies indicate that fathers, especially married fathers who live with their children, play an important role in protecting their children from abuse and neglect, a fact that is often overlooked by researchers, policymakers, and the media. This […]
New parents make a lot of preparations when a baby is on the way. Some of the things couples have to consider are where the baby will sleep and who will stay home with the baby. With these and other preparations, many couples don't prepare for the change that the baby will have on their […]
This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and family. Our empirical estimates derived from the model account for self-selection, simultaneity and unobserved heterogeneity. The results capture how job stability affects earnings, how both […]
This article offers advice for married couples on dealing with potential conflicts that may arise when a child enters a marriage. According to research, the mother feels the impact of parenting during the first 6 months of the child’s life while the husband experiences the effects from 6 months to 18 months. To deal with […]
A Florida Marriage Preparation series, this online curricula includes the segments : Can We Talk? Improving Couples’ Communication, Couples Considering Parenthood, Couples Considering A Blended Family, So You are Getting Married in Florida!, Your Money Matters, and Conflict Management and Resolution–Can We Agree?
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 […]
While welfare reform in Colorado has been generally successful and innovative, government and community programs and partnerships have moved many families to self sufficiency, State leaders recognized that supporting the long-term success of all of Colorado’s families will require continued innovation and strong programmatic partnerships. Conference planners envisioned a meeting where “”policymakers from different communitysectors […]