The Census Bureau recently announced plans to remove from its annual American Community Survey several questions about respondents’ marital history. To non-experts, that may sound like an insignificant change to an irrelevant study—but according to scholars who study marriage and divorce, it’s actually a big deal. Read post at Family Studies Blog. Proposed […]
2014 Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference (WREC) plenary & selected breakout sessions now online.
LIVE WEBCAST — Show Me the Evidence: Obama’s Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy When: Monday, December 1, 2014, 9:00 – 11:00 am EDT Where: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2014/12/01-show-me-evidence-social-policy Join the conversation on Twitter at #ShowMeEvidence. From its earliest days, the Obama administration developed six domestic policy initiatives that incorporated evidence of […]
Strengthening What Works (SWW) was designed to identify promising practices to prevent IPV among immigrant and refugee populations in the U.S. and to increase organizational capacity for evaluation among the eight grantee organizations. Read more.
The marriage premium — economic and otherwise Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary writes on the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies report, "For Richer, For Poorer: How Family Sturctures Economic Success in America." Read more. Download the report.
Dr. Scott Stanley, author of a report, "Sliding vs. Deciding," joins The Daily Circuit to talk about how our relationship choices (or lack thereof) affect our marriages. Isabel Sawhill, co-director of the Center on Children and Families at The Brookings Institution, also joins the discussion to talk about adding children to the mix and how […]
Memorizing the table of elements or the anaerobic process might help you on a couple tests, but learning how to be a good romantic partner is a skill set that serves people their whole lives. Yet love is a topic that has gone missing from American school curricula. Dr. Richard Weissbourd, a child and family […]
New OPRE report provides detailed summaries of major research investments by OPRE’s Division of Family Strengthening (DFS) along with brief overviews of past projects. Link to OPRE site. | Resource available on NHMRC.
Bigger Weddings, Fewer Partners, Less ‘Sliding’ Linked to Better Marriages The latest National Marriage Project report, co-authored by psychologists Galena K. Rhoades and Scott M. Stanley, explores the association between premarital experiences and post-marital quality among today’s young adults. Link to full report News outlet responses: Deseret News USA Today […]
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 […]