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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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Strengthening Families Through Stronger Fathers Initiative: Lessons from the First Year of the Evaluation.

In 2006, New York became the first state in the country to enact legislation that consists of two innovative policies that are designed to help low-income noncustodial parents (mostly fathers) find work and pay the full amount of their current child support called the Strengthening Families...
The Legislative Marriage Agenda and its Potential Meaning for Programs Serving Low-Income Families.

This paper analyzes legislative proposals that address marriage, and the potential impact on current fatherhood programs serving low-income families. The initiation of fatherhood programs following the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act in 1996 is...
More Research Needed to Put Marriage Policies on Track.

Marriage has become a major component of the TANF reauthorization debates, as proposals in the Senate, House, and White House have allocated significant resources to marriage promotion activities and related research. Although there is an existing body of research on marriage from fields such as...
The Resounding Resilience of Grandfamilies: Financial Stories of Older Relatives Caring for Children in Low-Income Communities.

In the U.S., 2.7 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren. Of these, 21 percent are below the poverty line and 37 percent are age 60 or older. Based on interviews from 20 grandparent caregivers, this report puts a face on the personal and financial sacrifice many grandfamilies make...
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