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Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was the first guest in the 2004 CLASP Audio Conference Series, The Squeeze: Helping Low-Income Families in an Era of Dwindling Resources. In an interview with CLASP's John Hutchins, Dr...
This article reviews the development of community marriage initiatives and their relationship with family professionals, with particular emphasis on sociohistorical context. We describe five leading community marriage initiatives, discuss the state of the evaluation research, and propose new...
Governmental efforts to strengthen marriage through a variety of approaches have become increasingly common in the last decade. Societal trends related to family formation, marriage, and divorce have shaped interest in marriage and its stability as a social institution. The public sector has...
We present an evaluation of the extent to which an empirically based couples' intervention program was successfully disseminated in the community. Clergy and lay leaders from 27 religious organizations who were trained to deliver the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) were...
We investigate the effects of postsecondary education on the economic well-being of single parents. The data for this study are from the 1993 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, with a sample of 930 single mothers and 168 single fathers. The results indicate that postsecondary education,...
In this article, Winters mentions the role of the federal government in fostering marriage in order to put children in stable, two-parent homes. The article also discusses the following: how President George W. Bush's Healthy Marriage Initiative funds courses such as the Healthy Relationships...