Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grants. Nearly $111 million has been awarded to 91 grantees in 28 states and 1 territory. New Pathways for Fathers and Families, and Responsible Fatherhood Opportunities for Reentry and Mobility (ReFORM) grants aim to strengthen positive father-child engagement, improve fathers’ employment outcomes and foster healthy relationships. The Healthy Marriage […]
Marriage and Child Wellbeing Revisited Future of Children Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2015 Marriage is on the decline, and a growing proportion of children are born to unmarried parents, many of them in unstable cohabiting unions. Research increasingly shows that family instability affects children’s cognitive and social-emotional development in ways that constrain their […]
Oklahoma State Rep. Mark McCullough, who requested a legislative study to review the progress made by the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (Project Relate), releases a statement praising the work of the initiative. “We heard today about the OMI’s continued success at providing pre-marital education to Oklahomans, a service that greatly improves a couple’s chances of […]
Read Ron Haskins' blog post on his new book, Show Me the Evidence and enter a contest to receive a copy of the book by nominating a program that you think is an example of an effective government program. Read More
Don’t Dump Couple Relationship Education Until Co-Parenting Support Has Been Included And The Benefits For Children Are Known | Read More
The Marriage Foundation (UK) and the Sunday Times co-hosted a debate entitled "Is there a difference between marriage and cohabitation: should all cohabiting couples be treated the same?". There has been a lot of debate in the media recently on whether couples who have decided to cohabit rather than marry should have any claims against […]
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 […]
A new set of performance measures for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees have been proposed. An additional set of instruments for a cross-site evaluation with a subset of grantees have been proposed as well. Please see a short overview at: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/11/06/2014-26320/proposed-information-collection-activity-comment-request. This notice has information on how to request a document containing all proposed […]
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.