The Things to Know Before You Say "Go" materials help teens learn more about themselves and their potential partners before entering intimate relationship. Teens examine a vast range of behaviors and attitudes they may encounter when dating. They assess which traits are most and least appealing and realize the need to know more before making a deep emotional investment.
Money HabitudesTM introduces teens to the human side of money - the subconscious factors that dictate how people actually relate to money, regardless of financial skills or economic status. Important precursor to financial literacy courses, the material help teens identify their personal financial patterns, how these affect their goals and relationships, and ways to use this knowledge to be more successful.
The Marriage and Family Counseling Collaborative (MFCC) is a partnership group designed to inform, educate, and support providers who work with military Service members and their families.
How well a family recovers from a natural catastrophe may be tied to the household's pre-disaster make up and socio-economic status
May 23, 2011
How well a family recovers from a natural catastrophe may be tied to the household's pre-disaster make up and socio-economic status. In a recent study, Dr. Michael Rendall of the RAND Corporation compared the number of households in New Orleans, LA that broke up following Hurricane Katrina to the national rate of household break-ups over an equivalent period. An estimated 1.3 million people fled the Gulf Coast during that emergency in 2005 - the largest urban evacuation America has ever seen. The results are published today in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
by Judith Treas, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Housework has been a gold mine for research. Searching Sociological Abstracts online identifies more than 1,000 articles on the topic. The twenty-first century, however, has taken research in a new direction. There are now more studies on how couples in other countries divide the work around the house, including studies of non-Western societies such as China. Instead of simply putting couples' housekeeping under a microscope, researchers are switching to a wide-angle lens.
by Paul C. Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Morse–Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, prosenbl@umn.edu
An important way in which the family field benefits society is that our research and theory can illuminate everyday taken-for-granted relationship life in ways that enrich, empower, educate, and perhaps entertain the general public. Take couple bed-sharing. Tens of millions of adult couples in the United States share a bed, but until recently not much was written about it in the academic literature or the popular press.
by Benjamin Karney, Ph.D. Professor of Social Psychology, UCLA
Relationship expert, Benjamin Karney from UCLA, discusses couples and stress. Dr. Karney writes, "Reuben Hill first pointed out in his classic and influential Family Stress Theory, the impact of any specific stressor on a relationship is likely to depend on the broader landscape of additional stressors the couple faces and the resources available to cope with them."
Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, University of California, Berkeley
The eminent scholars, Philip and Carolyn Cowan, authors of "When Partners become Parents," observe that the most important fact arising from research is that while there is an average decline in relationship satisfaction after baby, those doing best after making the transition tend to be those doing best before.
