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Meeting the Needs of Married, Low-income Stepfamily Couples in Marriage Education Services: Final Report

Existing evidence suggests that many married couples in the U.S. are managing stepfamily relationships. Empirical studies of stepfamily dynamics highlight the unique factors inherent in stepfamily marriages that impact their quality and stability, most notably the complexity of multiple relationships that exist at the onset of the marriage. Additional research on low-income populations suggests that […]

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09 Jan
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Research on Successful Families

This is a body of research on families that are enduring, cohesive, affectionate, and mutually-appreciative, and in which family members communicate with one another frequently and fruitfully. They are families that raise children who go on to form successful families themselves. They are not necessarily families that are trouble-free. Some have experienced health problems, financial […]

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09 Jan
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Fragile Families in Focus : How Low-Income Never Married Parents Perceive Relationships and Marriage

Policymakers at the state and federal levels are showing increased interest in programs designed to encourage family formation among unmarried parents through interventions like marriage education, relationship skills, co-parenting, and responsible fatherhood programs. Interest in unmarried parents is based on a concern that children in single-parent households do not fare as well as children raised […]

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09 Jan
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Family connections in Alabama : lessons learned from a pilot project focused on marriage strengthening among low resource families [PowerPoint presentation]

This presentation discusses the Special Improvement Project through U.S. DHHS Office of Child Support Enforcement awarded for January – December 2003. The program’s priority was to encourage new ways to approach unwed parents to emphasize the importance of healthy marriage to a child’s well-being.

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09 Jan
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Marriage matters! : a guide for Louisiana couples

This guide is designed to assist Louisiana couples in developing a strong marriage. It begins with a pop quiz to assess how well the couple knows each other and then provides information on the following topics: 10 top reasons for marrying; the challenges of young marriage; the challenges of marrying for the second or third […]

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09 Jan
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A comprehensive framework for marriage education, 2002-2003

This monograph provides marriage educators with a set of concepts that will help them better understand their craft and discover unseen possibilities. We offer a map, or framework, depicted in Figure 1, that helps marriage educators think more thoroughly, systematically, and creatively about opportunities to strengthen marriage. We draw attention to the elements of content, […]

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Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Unmarried Couples With children : Early Lessons From the Building Strong Families Project. Final report

The Building Strong Families (BSF) project originated from these bodies of research, and is one of the centerpieces of a broader policy strategy to support healthy marriage. BSF is a multi-year, multi-site project sponsored by USDHHS/Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Its goal is to learn whether well-designed interventions can help interested, romantically involved, unwed […]

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Piloting a community approach to healthy marriage initiatives : early implementation of the Healthy Marriages Healthy Relationships demonstration– Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (CHMI) is a key component of the demonstration strategy of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to determine how public policies can best support healthy marriages. Two concepts underlie the CHMI strategy. One is that community coalitions can be an effective vehicle for developing a range of healthy marriage […]

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Guide to data sources on the determinants of marriage and cohabitation. Final report

U.S. government policy has sought alternatively to improve the circumstances of single parent families and to reduce their numbers. There now is growing interest in interventions seeking to promote healthy marriages, and, where marriage is infeasible, strengthen relationships between unmarried parents. These interventions will stand a better chance for success if they are based on […]

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Healthy Marriage Initiative: activities and accomplishments, 2002-2005

In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the Department of Health and Human Services launched the Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI) to support the President Bush’s goal of increasing healthy marriages by focusing attention and action on strengthening marriages and preparing interested individuals and couples for healthy marriage. In supporting healthy marriage, ACF […]

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