August 2010
NCFMR Releases New Resources
The National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) has released new data points on interracial and interethnic relationships in the U.S. NCFMR has also released two new working papers: Relationship Formation and Stability in Emerging Adulthood: Do Sex Ratios Matter? by Tara D. Warner, Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano, & Monica A. Longmore and The Social Context of Disablement Among Older Adults: Does Marital Quality Matter for Loneliness? by David F. Warner & Jessica Kelly-Moore.
VIsit NCFMR's website for further information.
Posted: Aug 31, 2010
Author: NCFMR
Publisher: NCFMR
August 2010
Oklahoma's Family Expectations Program Strengthens Relationships
Family Expectations released a comprehensive research report based on a large, rigorous federal study of effectiveness. The study findings showed that unmarried parents giving birth to a child benefited in numerous ways from their participation the Oklahoma City-based service. As part of a groundbreaking national study called Building Strong Families (BSF), couples who participated in Oklahoma's Family Expectations program were more likely to stay together, reported higher quality relationships and had fathers who were more likely to remain involved with their children as compared to the control group. In addition to helping hundreds of Oklahoma families, Family Expectations promises to impact national human services policy due to the strength of the findings from the study on the Oklahoma program. The Family Expectations program offers public policy leaders committed to strengthening vulnerable families a new strategy and fresh encouragement that low-income families can be substantially aided in achieving their own aspirations for stability and happiness.
Read the Full Report.
Watch Video Clips from the Press Conference.
Posted: Aug 25, 2010
Author: Building Strong Families
Publisher: Mathematica
July 2010
Men May Be More Vulnerable to Roller Coaster Ride of Romance
Young
men are often portrayed as insensitive players with a "love 'em and
leave 'em" attitude toward the opposite sex, but a new study suggests
that they are actually more vulnerable to the emotional ups and downs
of romantic relationships than young women.
"The perception is
that young men are unfeeling when it comes to relationships, and that
all they want is to have sex," said study author Robin Simon, a
professor of sociology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
"But these findings reveal that they are emotionally involved, and that
they actually benefit more from the good parts of the relationship and
are more harmed by the bad than women."
For the study, Simon and
co-author Anne Barrett, an associate professor of sociology at Florida
State University in Tallahassee, analyzed survey data on 1,611 men and
women between the ages of 18 and 23 that had been originally gathered
for a long-term study of mental health and the transition to adulthood.
First, they looked at whether being in a relationship or having a
recent breakup had any effect on the young adults' mental health, as
well as whether there were any differences in men vs. women. Then, they
examined what effect partner strain and support in an ongoing
relationship had on the subjects' mental well-being, and whether there
were any gender differences there.
Not surprisingly, Simon and
Barrett found that women were more likely than men to experience
depression when a relationship ended and benefited more from being part
of a couple. But when the researchers looked at the effects of ongoing
relationships on mental health, the tables were turned. Men received
greater emotional benefits than women from the positive aspects of a
romantic relationship, and they were also more likely than women to be
emotionally harmed by the stress of a rocky patch.
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Posted: Jul 23, 2010
Author: Madonna Behen
Publisher: Health Day
July 2010
Journal of Family Issues Examines African American Marriages and Health
The August 2010 edition of the Journal of Family Issues examines health and marriage among African American communities. Articles include What Do We Know About the Link Between Marriage and Health?, The Increasing Protection of Marriage on Infant Low Birth Weight Across Two Generations of African American Wome, and The Effects of Mother's Marital Status on Adolescent and Young Adult Health and Economic Well-Being Among African American. Read More.
Posted: Jul 22, 2010
Author: Journal of Family Issues
Publisher: Sage Publications
May 2010
Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children
Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children explores the relationship between parental marital status and intergenerational economic mobility. Read More
Posted: Jul 13, 2010
Author: Thomas DeLeire and Leonard M. Lopoo
Publisher: Economic Mobility Project
