According to conference evaluations, all who attended this presentation by Wally Goddard at the 2010 Annual Conference shared the same opinion...this was not a speech to be missed if you care about family life education and University outreach.
This video is for you...set aside some time to hear why skills, although the focus of much FLE, are only a small part of what enables people to sustain healthy relationships. Hear more about: perceptual systems and interpretive biases; cultural norms that support or challenge relationships, and processes that family life educators can encourage to help people manage bias, ferret out cultural nonsense, and build strong family relationships.
H. Wallace Goddard, Ph.D., University of Arkansas Extension, 2010 Arcus Award Winner
To help individuals and society cope with [divorce], we need to move beyond sweeping generalizations about the "average" outcome of divorce and conduct more fine-tuned investigations into the full range of family processes and events that increase the risks of damage or augment the resilience of children and adults.
by Daniel T. Lichter, Ph.D., and Julie H. Carmalt, Ph.D., Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Should we therefore be concerned about the accelerated uncoupling of marriage and childbearing? The statistical correlations seem clear. But interpretations also have been made ambiguous by the rise in cohabitation. A growing share - perhaps even a majority share - of children born outside of marriage live with both biological parents.
by Robert M. Milardo, Ph.D., Professor of Family Relations, University of Maine
I did not intend to write a book about aunts and uncles or their nieces and nephews, at least not initially. I began with a simple interest in uncovering instances of men in caregiving roles, other than fathers. My own uncles were positive influences in my life, and I simply wondered if uncles were important in the lives of others.
Conventional wisdom and research strongly suggest that when divorced parents can eventually co-parent, protect their children from their unresolved conflicts, incorporate authoritative parenting skills and maintain good mental health, their children have a good chance to fare well in the long term. These are ideal goals for any family, not just those of divorce. But, during the stressful period prior to the separation-and often for several years afterward-even the most dedicated parents are unsteady.
Robert M. Milardo is Professor of Family Relations at the University of Maine. He has published extensively in the field of family studies and is currently editor of the Journal of Family Theory and Review owned by the National Council on Family Relations, of which he was elected a Fellow in 2005. He is the author of The Forgotten Kin, published by Cambridge University Press, edits the Family Studies textbook series published by Routledge, and recently served as the editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family. Bob has a long-standing interest in the science of family relationships and served as the first president of the International Association for Relationship Research. His interviews and commentaries on family issues have appeared in a wide array of venues, including Psychology Today, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, and a variety of local and regional media.
Ralph LaRossa is Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University and the author of Conflict and Power in Marriage: Expecting the First Child; Transition to Parenthood: How Infants Change Families (with Maureen Mulligan LaRossa); Becoming a Parent; The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History; and Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families. He is also the editor of Family Case Studies: A Sociological Perspective, and a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach (with Pauline Boss, William Doherty, Walter Schumm, and Suzanne Steinmetz). Dr. LaRossa has received grants from the National Science Foundation (principal investigator) and National Institutes of Health (co-investigator) in support of research on the social realities of fatherhood during the Machine Age (1918-1941) and on the experience of becoming a father in contemporary society.
