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A Child’s Day : 2003 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being)

This report is the third examination of children’s well-being and their daily activities based on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). It addresses children’s living arrangements and their family’s characteristics, early child care experiences, daily interaction with parents, extracurricular activities, academic experience, and parents’ educational expectations. The data in this report […]

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A comprehensive framework for marriage education, 2002-2003

This monograph provides marriage educators with a set of concepts that will help them better understand their craft and discover unseen possibilities. We offer a map, or framework, depicted in Figure 1, that helps marriage educators think more thoroughly, systematically, and creatively about opportunities to strengthen marriage. We draw attention to the elements of content, […]

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09 Jan
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Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States : data from the National Survey of Family Growth

This report presents national estimates of the probabilities of marital and cohabitation outcomes for women 15-44 years of age in 1995, by a wide variety of individual-and community-level characteristics. The life-table analysis in this report takes a life cycle approach to estimate the probabilities that: a woman will marry for the first time, an intact […]

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Frequently asked questions : remarriage

In the United States today, in almost half of marriages one or both spouses have been marriedbefore. Helping individuals form and sustain healthy remarriages is crucial to strengthening the institution of marriage. Moreover, most remarriages create stepfamilies that involve children. So to improve the lives of children, it is important to help remarriedcouples succeed. Yet, […]

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How many men and women get married at some point in their lives?

The percent of men and women who have ever married in the United States increases steadily with age. In other words, a smaller number of 20- to 24-year-olds than 40- to 49-year-olds have ever been married. By the time they reach their 70s, nearly 100% of Americans today have been married at some point in […]

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