This summary on the conceptualization and measurement of healthy couple relationships isbased on the recommendations of scholars and professionals with expertise in this area, whoprepared brief background memos for this project. The recommendations were solicited byChild Trends with funding and input from the Administration for Children and Families. Thememos we commissioned are just one part of a larger project designed to further themeasurement of healthy marriages, particularly among low-income families with children. Inaccordance with this goal, the writers were asked to elaborate on measurement for the followinggroups, as expertise permitted: low-income; racial/ethnic minorities; cohabiting and visitingcouples; couples with and without children; couples co-parenting after relationship dissolution;and the incarcerated. The short papers produced a number of insights. (Author abstract).