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The Resource Center's virtual library collects material from a wide array of organizations available in a variety of formats to build a knowledge base around healthy marriage and relationship education, integration into safety-net service systems, and related topics for couples, educators, policy makers, public service agencies, and other safety-net stakeholders.

Visit our Special Collection: Healthy Dating Leads to Healthy Marriage for resources for youth, parents and service providers on this important topic.

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Handbook of Measurement Issues in Family Research.

Hofferth (U. of Maryland at College Park) and Casper (U. of Southern California) compile 23 chapters that continue work presented in workshops and conferences since 2001 by researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Family and Child Well-Being Network and the...
What Are the Choices for Low-Income Families?: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Remaining Single.

Studies of the impact of cohabitation on marriage and outcomes for children must consider all of the alternative family structures available to low-income persons, including single parenthood. This chapter analyzes the theories that cohabitation reduces the number of people marrying and that the...
Safety Net Programs, Marriage, and Cohabitation.

This chapter estimates marriage penalties and bonuses for low-income single parents to determine whether current tax and welfare policies influence decisions about cohabitation and marriage. Policymakers are concerned that tax benefits and welfare eligibility standards may be providing a...
Family ties : improving paternity establishment practices and procedures for low-income mothers, fathers and children / National Women's Law Center, Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy.

The Common Ground project brought together advocates, practitioners, and researchers who work primarily with low-income mothers and fathers, to develop and advance public policy recommendations to promote effective co-parenting relationships and ensure emotional and financial support for...
Do you have something you think is appropriate for the library? While library staff scour various resources seeking items for the collection, it is not possible for staff to have access to all marriage and family-related resources. This is where you can help by sharing materials created by your program so that they may be reviewed or used by program staff, resource families, or related professionals for the purpose of improving service delivery for families.

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