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This chapter summarizes the main findings from research employing narrative methodologies on fathers of children with special needs. Analyses were conducted of two main data sets consisting of Latter-day Saint fathers of children with a variety of serious disabilities and chronic illnesses. One...
Findings from social science research and marriage education are cited in this report to examine the government's role in supporting healthy marriages for the benefit of children. The analysis considers reasons for public policies that address marriage issues and the elements of effective...
This fact sheet published by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System provides six steps to collaborative problem solving when teens and parents do not see eye-to-eye. The author provides an example that demonstrates the six steps, including establishing ground rules, reaching mutual...
This conference was to educate, inform, and assist stakeholders from across Alabama about ACF's priority initiatives, to aggressively incorporate the initiatives throughout ACF programs and communities to strengthen families. The focus was on the importance of partnering faith- and community...
Jason DeParle, an award-winning New York Times reporter, discusses his book, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare. University of Pennsylvania sociologist Kathy Edin and CLASP Policy Director Mark Greenberg join DeParle to discuss the findings...
This lesson is intended to complement the K-State Research and Extension CoupleTALK program. This PeopleTALK lesson gives attention to connections with others, and can be particularly helpful for marital and couple relationships. It emphasizes a process of growth and behavioral change that can...
In response to the congressional mandate to promote two-parent families and marriage specified in the 1996 welfare reform legislation, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services embarked on an initiative to encourage healthy marriage in...
This fact sheet is intended to complement the K-State Research and Extension CoupleTALK program. This PeopleTALK fact sheet offers suggestions on ways a relationship can become stronger and more satisfying by focusing on friendship with the other person-- in a marriage or with another family...
The thesis of this study is that children and adolescents who grow up in intact families are generally less likely to smoke, to drink, or to try illegal drugs than children and adolescents who grow up in non-intact families, which, for the purposes of this paper, are defined as single-parent...
Recent federal welfare reform initiatives contain provisions intended to strengthen marriage and family structures. Three of the four objectives of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program as enacted in 1996 address family issues: assistance to needy families so that children can live...