Trends in marriage and fertility pose long-term risks to the financial and fiscal health of the world's wealthiest nations – from China and Japan to Germany and the United States – and are implicated in the recent global economic slowdown, according to a new report released today. The Sustainable Demographic Dividend: What Do Marriage & […]
"The number of Americans who have children and live together without marrying has increased twelvefold since 1970," Sabrina Tavernise wrote in The New York Times recently, adding that "children now are more likely to have unmarried parents than divorced ones." Is that cause for concern? Does marriage contribute to a stable environment, or is it […]
Now that government belt-tightening has become a national obsession, divorce-reform advocates are making the argument that they can be part of the solution. Divorce is costly for everyone, they argue, and encouraging troubled couples to try to work things out could benefit the national bottom line. The average split costs a couple $2,500. A new […]
Co-sponsored by the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, this new report by a group of 18 family scholars summarizes new findings from the social sciences on divorce, cohabitation, and marriage in the U.S. According to W. Bradford Wilcox, director […]
This guide is designed to help safety-net service providers and other stakeholders sustainably integrate healthy marriage and relationship education into their services for military service members and their families. Safety-net service providers are people who work in Federal, State, Local, and Tribal agencies and help others achieve self-sufficiency. The guide uses a three-stage […]
Offered by the nation’s fatherhood leader, and delivered by NFI President Christopher Brown, the On Demand Father Engagement Certificate™ (FEC) from National Fatherhood Initiative® provides individuals* with affordable, convenient, on demand training around 5 core competencies for effective father engagement that can be completed in a little more than a half day. Earning the […]
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. Through the ACS, we know more about jobs […]
Description from publisher's website: This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of evidence-based relationship and marriage education(RME)programs. Readers are introduced to the best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective RME programs to better prepare them to teach clients how to have healthy intimate relationships. Noted contributors from various disciplines […]
Each year the Healthy Marriage grantees serve a diverse group of participants across the United States. Since the beginning of the OMB approved data collection in 2012, HM participants have been characterize by a high degree of diversity in all of the demographic variables – age, sex, marital status, employment status. Summary: This infographic […]