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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research

New Family Profile released

August 02, 2011

The National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University just released a new family profile publication on "On the Road to Adulthood: Leaving the Parental Home." It examines the residential trends of 18 - 24 year olds by gender, ethnicity and race, and educational attainment.

from Real-world impact

Migration, separation and family survival

By Leah Schmalzbauer. Reprinted from NCFR Report.

Whereas poor women used to migrate primarily to reunite with family, they are increasingly migrating in search of wages to support their children. This trend is rooted in an increased supply of poor women in the South who cannot secure living wages. But more importantly it is fueled by the feminization of the low-wage care industry in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, where there is a high demand for poor women to clean our homes, hospitals, and hotels and to care for our children. Women who cannot afford to be with their own children are migrating en masse to care for the children of others.

from Real-world impact

“Trust is like Jell-O”: forms of trust in low-income mothers’ romantic unions

By Linda Burton and Andrew Cherlin. Reprinted from NCFR Report.

"Trust is jiggly, and it can look like something it is not. You can't trust trust, and you can't trust Jell-O. That's what I've learned from working with [low-income couples]."

Carolyn Pape Cowan

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D.

Specialty Areas:

Marital quality
Children
Adaptation in low & middle income families
Fatherhood

Carolyn Pape Cowan is Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley where she is co-director of 3 longitudinal preventive intervention projects: Becoming a Family, Schoolchildren and Their Families, and Supporting Father Involvement. Dr. Cowan has published widely in the professional literature on family relationships, family transitions, and the evaluation of preventive interventions. She is co-editor of Fatherhood today: Men's Changing Role in the Family (Wiley, 1988) and The Family Context of Parenting in the Child's Adaptation to School (Erlbaum, 2005), and co-author with Phil Cowan of When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (Erlbaum, 2000), which has been translated into 6 languages. Prof. Cowan consults widely on the development, training, and evaluation of interventions for parents.

Philip Cowan

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D.

Specialty Areas:

Marital Quality
Children
Adaptation in middle & low income families
Fatherhood

Philip A. Cowan is Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-director of 3 longitudinal preventive intervention projects with Carolyn Pape Cowan. Dr. Cowan served as Director of the Clinical Psychology Program and the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley. In addition to authoring numerous scientific articles, he is the author of Piaget with Feeling (Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1978), co-author of When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (Erlbaum, 2000), and co-editor of four books and monographs, including Family Transitions (Erlbaum, 1990), and The Family Context of Parenting in the Child's Adaptation to School (Erlbaum, 2005).

Joshua Coleman

Ph.D.

Specialty Areas:

Intergenerational relationships
Marriage & Family Therapy

Dr. Joshua Coleman is Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families and is a psychologist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, and The BBC, and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, America Online Coaches, PBS Life Part 2, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. His advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, Fortune, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting Magazine and many others.

He has served on the clinical faculties of The University of California at San Francisco, The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, and the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group.

Andrew Cherlin

Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1974

Specialty Areas:

Marriage
Divorce
Cohabitation

My research is in the sociology of families and public policy. I have published books and articles on topics such as marriage and divorce, children's well-being, intergenerational relations, family policy, and welfare policy. I am the principal investigator of the "Three-City Study," an interdisciplinary study of low-income children and their caregivers in the post-welfare-reform era. The study’s web site includes downloadable documents that describe the study and a searchable list of publications. The data from all three survey waves of our study are publicly available through Sociometrics and ICPSR.

I am also the author of a textbook in the sociology of the family, Public and Private Families: An Introduction (Sixth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010); and a companion reader, Public and Private Families: A Reader (Sixth edition, McGraw-Hill 2010).

My most recent book is The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009).

from CFLE CEU Approved Meetings

Families and Community

"Rethinking Domestic Violence

September 16, 2011

Akron, OH

The primary aim of this seminar is to systemic and culturally appropriate understandings of what constitutues domestic violence, why it exists, and how best to combat it.