This website includes up-to-date information on major aspects of adolescent health, including physical and mental health, substance abuse, sexual behavior, pregnancy prevention, and healthy relationships. The website provides both new information and existing federal resources geared to meet the adolescent health information needs of diverse stakeholders.
In the past decade, policymakers and researchers have become increasingly interested in social programs that promote and support healthy marriages. A growing body of research evidence suggests that marriage has benefits for families and children, including improved economic well-being and mental health, and that children raised in two-parent families perform better in school and have more positive developmental outcomes than children from single-parent families (Amato and Booth 1997; McLanahan and Sandefur 1994; Waite and Gallagher2000; Wood et al. 2007). Inspired in part by these potential benefits of marriage, a wide range of programs have been developed to encourage and support healthy marriages (Dion 2005).
The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations and the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Messiah College will be co-sponsoring a half day workshop on Latino families on Tuesday, October 18, 1:00-4:00 in Parmer Cinema (Boyer Hall), at Messiah College in Grantham.
The Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal is inviting submissions for a special issue with the theme of "Highlighting Cultural Diversity from a Global Perspective."
Karen Guzzo
Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2003
Karen Benjamin Guzzo received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina in 2003 and did postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at Bowling Green in fall 2011. Trained as a family demographer and sociologist, most of her work examines what are considered "nontraditional" family behaviors. One line of research examines unintended fertility, looking at trends over time as well as the antecedents and consequences of unplanned births. A related line of work looks at nonmarital childbearing and multipartnered fertility, where individuals have children by different partners. Dr. Guzzo also studies trends in cohabitation, which has become increasingly common in the United States but decreasingly likely to lead to marriage even as more cohabiting couples are raising children. Finally, she is interested in parenting attitudes and behaviors, particularly among fathers.
