A new briefing paper, written by Kristi Williams, an associate professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, and released Monday by the Council on Contemporary Families, argues marriages of single mothers are not necessarily beneficial to the women or their children.    CNBC Article by Allison Linn    Promoting Marriage among Single Mothers: An […]

The biggest challenge is getting couples to attend the classes regularly says Scott Wetzler in his recent Atlantic post.   Scott Wetzler is the vice chairman of the department of psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center and the director of its Supporting Healthy Relationships program.   Read it here.

A new study has produced a lot of headlines blaring “Cohabitation Doesn't Cause Divorce, After All.” But in many circumstances, living together before marriage remains risky. Read More.

In The Forever Initiative, Alan Hawkins calls for more state-directed public support for a series of educational efforts to help individuals and couples form healthy relationships and enduring marriages. He outlines an integrated set of feasible and affordable educational initiatives across the early life course, beginning in youth, continuing in early adulthood, during cohabitation, engagement, […]

The U.S. Census Bureau has released its 2008-2012 American Community Survey five-year estimates, which give updated information for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico on more than 40 topics, including educational attainment, income, occupation, marital status, languages spoken at home, and more.   The Census bureau releases new five-year estimates each year. To […]

Council on Contemporary Families plans 2014 conference | "How Digital Technologies are Changing the Way Families Live and Love"   The Council on Contemporary Families — a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides the public and the media with research and best-practice findings on American families — has planned its 2014 conference for April 25-26 at […]

In this op-ed Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families summarizes the massive changes to marriage, childbearing, and family formation over the last 40 years. These changes are associated with some positive developments for adults—more jobs and higher wages for women, more engagement with family and household responsibilities for men—but the results […]

This catalog compiles information from 54 studies of 39 family-strengthening programs that serve low-income couples. It documents the research on the programs’ effectiveness or impacts and the degree to which the studies demonstrate that a specific program (and not some other factor) led to the results. It also describes key program elements—such as content, design, […]