The Welfare Peer TA Network sponsored a multi-State TA event on July 15-16, 2003, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This event was co-coordinated with Public Strategies, the public relations firm that manages the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative. The Administration for Children and Families’ Region VI, VII and IX Offices provided additional support, ensuring this event met State […]
A large body of research documents the earnings advantage that married men enjoy over never-married men, the “marriage premium.” Marital status is now a control variable in most earnings models, despite disagreements in the literature over whether the source of marital-status effects lies in productivity, selection, discrimination or other factors (Cornwell & Rupert 1997). Some […]
The populations targeted by the Healthy Marriage Initiative and the Serious and Violent Offender Re-entry Initiative (SVORI) and other reentry programs can overlap considerably. The majority of incarcerated individuals are parents, and of these, roughly a quarter are married and 46 percent were living with their children and presumably their child’s mother at the time […]
The Centre for New Black Leadership, the Executive Directors Association of OIC of America, and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternal organization, in a joint partnership with the Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, convened a historical Roundtable discussion of the African-American Healthy Marriage Initiative (AAHMI). The Roundtable conversation was […]
ACF, with support from the Welfare Peer TA Network, sponsored the Developing a Marriage Initiative for Your State workshop on September 17-18, 2002, in Oklahoma City, OK. Participants primarily represented Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child support staff from the following States: Iowa, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and […]
As a collective group, The Bay Area Social Services Consortium (BASSC), requested technical assistance (TA) from the Welfare Peer TA Network. The request outlined BASSC’s desire to explore innovative policies and best practices in promoting two-parent families. This area of interest was in response to the President’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program goal […]
This report presents national estimates of the duration of first and second marriages for women 15-44 years of age in 1995. National estimates of the probability of divorce given separation and of the probability of remarriage given divorce are also presented. The life-table estimates are based on a nationally representative sample of women 15-44 years […]
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 […]
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 […]
This paper brings together a body of empirical evidence on how marriage affects the economic well-being of families with children. The paper considers the theoretical reasons marriage might enhance economic well-being, clarifies the empirical questions about the potential roles of marriage, and presents descriptive data and the evidence from empiricalstudies. The review deals with the […]