Panelists discuss Conflict Management Across Eight Situations: Actor-partner Interdependence Model ; Sexual Self-disclosure and Communication Among Swinger Couples ; The Relational Effects of Same-sex Marriage in Iowa ; Emotional Congruence Within Couple Interaction: The Role of Attachment Avoidance
by Marcus N. Tanner, Ph.D., president and CEO, HealingChoice, www.healingchoice.org
It was an unusually calm day for an Easter Sunday morning in Texas. I was a pastor and for the first time in my ministry, I left my pregnant wife and daughter at home before heading to church that morning. Although our family saw the approaching clouds, somehow we thought we would be protected. It was on that day that I was forced to resign.
by Rob Palkovitz, Ph.D., professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Through meetings and individual discussions with various teens, it became clear that everyday interactions with family members had significant influence in informing teens’ emerging faith and in influencing the centrality of their spirituality in comparison to other emerging developments.
The Better Marriages Conference is designed for couples of all ages and stages of relationship, and is also a training opportunity for experts to provide information to laypeople.
Plenary speaker Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD speaks about domestic violence, the intergenerational transmission of family violence and the costs thereof for families and society.
The project used a random assignment research design to test eight voluntary programs that offer relationship skills education and other support services to unwed couples who are expecting or have just had a baby.
In another vintage short film, George and Betty get to spend the summer with their cousins on Uncle Jim’s farm. Doing chores, calling hogs, milking cows — it’s all here, straight from 1963.
