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This guide provides practice tips for developing and delivering a marriage and relationship education program and for child welfare and low-income populations. The guidelines address: using inclusive lifestyles and language; ensuring culturally competent programs and trainers; understanding...
This study was conducted to identify the marital and family problems of 31 refugee families in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The refugees were from twelve different countries in South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Interviews with each family focused on family structure, stress and...
This report discusses the incidence of intimate partner violence in Indian Country and highlights the efforts by the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) in 2002-2009 to work with more than 100 Indian, Tribal, and urban health care facilities, as well as domestic violence advocacy programs...
This report shares findings from a study that examined how much States spend on children, including education, health, income security, and social services spending, compared the spending in different States, and considered the implications of these differences. For the study, State spending...
This brief highlights themes and action steps drawn from a roundtable on Two-Generational Strategies to Improve Immigrant Family and Child Outcomes, hosted by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, on April 23-24, 2015 in Washington, D.C....
This MPI-Urban Institute report reviews the evidence on the impacts of parental deportation on children, and on their needs for health and social services. The literature mostly dates from a period of peak enforcement: 2009 through 2013, when there were nearly 4 million deportations from the...
This report discusses the findings from a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of children whose parents are deported or detained, the primary health and human services needs of these children, barriers children and families face in accessing services, and promising approaches for...
The context of marriage in the United States involves not only whether and when Americans choose to marry, but also how many times they marry. The majority of recent marriages are first marriages for both spouses. However, divorce rates are higher in the United States compared with European...
This paper provides background information on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), explains the basic requirements of ICWA, provides an overview of tribal child welfare and court systems, discusses disproportionality and its relationship to trends in ICWA compliance, highlights promising...
Since 1960, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided estimates of expenditures on children from birth through age 17. This technical report presents the most recent estimates for husband-wife and single-parent families using data from the 2005-06 Consumer Expenditure Survey, updated to...