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In the late 1990s, Oklahoma undertook an innovative strategy to strengthen families by reducing its divorce and nonmarital childbearing rates. With leadership and commitment from the highest levels, the state set out to build public support and develop a sustainable multisector initiative...
Is children's development, and children's cognitive development in particular, affected by the marital status of their parents? On the face of it, this seems to be a simple question to which there is an intuitively simple answer: yes. Yet the answer to this question is anything but simple. The...
Existing research shows that marriage and marital stability are positively associated with health and well-being. Thus, recent increases in births to unmarried parents and the instability surrounding these relationships raise concerns about the possible health effects associated with changes in...
Using Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Data (N=4,342), this paper examines why relationship status matters for maternal health behaviors. The paper argues that a mother's decisions on how muchto invest in her child are partly driven by her perception of how committed the father is to their...
Existing evidence suggests that many married couples in the U.S. are managing stepfamily relationships. Empirical studies of stepfamily dynamics highlight the unique factors inherent in stepfamily marriages that impact their quality and stability, most notably the complexity of multiple...
This is the seventh publication in the Couples and Marriage research and policy brief series. It explores how the healthy marriage, responsible fatherhood, and domestic violence communities can work together to promote the well-being of families and children. The brief explains some of the...
This fact sheet addresses challenges for the "sandwich generation" -- persons in middle adulthood who have the responsibilities to help both their adult children and their elderly parents at the same time. Specifically, it highlights the implications of divorce and remarriage for the "sandwich...
There are a number of reasons why we might expect that family structure would be affected by Wisconsin's experimental child support policy that allowed all support paid by nonresident fathers of children on welfare to be passed through to the mother and fully disregarded in calculating cash...
Cohabiting couples have a significantly higher risk for divorce than non-cohabiting couples. Based on a national sample of 2,000 premarital couples, they were classified into one of four couple types. Compared to non-cohabiting couples, cohabiting couples comprised a smaller percentage in the...
The fiscal year 2006 federal budget bill--known as the "Deficit Reduction Act of 2005" (DRA)--provides $100 million per year for five years to fund healthy marriage promotion efforts, and $50 million per year over five years for responsible fatherhood programs. A brief description of each of the...