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What is love?

This heartwarming video needs no introduction except to say that there’s a special place in heaven for this dementia patient caregiver.

Miai Sung
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The new dimensions of South Korean families: Changes and diversity

by Miai Sung, associate professor, Department of Home Economics, Korea National Open University, and Soyoung Lee, assistant professor, Department of Family and Child Studies, Montclair State University

During industrialization, a strong ideology of familism in South Korea played an important role in establishing families as a safety net for their members and thus required a very limited amount of governmental support for families. But in the post-industrial age, families began to deal with high demands of rapid economic growth and modernization in the country. These changes have led to serious challenges for Korean families and family relationships.

Olena Nesteruk
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Intergenerational relationships in transnational Eastern European families

by Olena Nesteruk, Ph.D., associate professor, Family and Child Studies, Montclair State University

In this article I will highlight Eastern European (EE) immigrants in the United States and share how they maintain intergenerational relationships across the ocean, based on my research with this group.

Shawn Christiansen
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A nation without children: A discussion of fertility decline in Japan

by Shawn L. Christiansen, associate professor, Family Life and Human Development, Southern Utah University

As you walk through Tokyo you see a world inhabited by adults and ominously devoid of children. The birthrate in Tokyo is currently 1.09 per woman. In Tama, a city of about 200,000 outside Tokyo, six of its elementary schools have been closed, with three more scheduled to be shut down.When visiting Japan, you may feel as if you are in a Japanese postapocalyptic anime movie, where a human-caused disaster has rendered the population unable to reproduce. The truth is much less sinister in its explanation of fertility decline, but just as dire in the consequences for a nation without children.

Harold Grotevant

Video: "Adoption Psychology: Professor Harold Grotevant Looks at Relationships in Adoptive Families"

University of Massachusetts-Amherst psychology Professor Harold Grotevant, who also leads the Rudd Adoption Research program at the university, looks at relationships in adoptive families.

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Young Children and Their Complex Families: Facing Some Uncomfortable Facts

It’s a fact that children born today are born into families that look dramatically different from families of a generation ago.  Today, more children than ever are born outside of marriage, largely due to delays in marriage and increases in cohabitation. Recent estimates by Child Trends show that 41 percent of all births in 2009 were to unmarried couples, roughly half to cohabiting couples.

Mom Enough

Podcast: When Your Marriage Isn't What You Want it to Be, Part 2

Listen to part 2 of a podcast with Dr. Marti Erickson and her daughter, Erin Erickson, on their Mom Enough parenting show, as they feature collaborative attorney Ron Ousky talking about "helping couples find options that minimize harm for everyone involved" in a matter of separation or divorce, especially children.

Mom Enough

Podcast: When Your Marriage Isn't What You Want it to Be, Part 1

Listen to part 1 of a podcast with Dr. Marti Erickson and her daughter, Erin Erickson, on their Mom Enough parenting show, as they feature former NCFR President Dr. Bill Doherty talking about how "to help couples discern whether their marriage can be saved, and to take steps to do so when possible."

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Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships

In family life education we have all worked to deliver effective programs to encourage personal well-being, strong couple relationships, and effective parenting. Yet sometimes we needed to help people get more than the knowledge and skills that we commonly teach. This 12-page workbook is intended to help people recognize their biases and manage them through the use of three key mindsets: humility, compassion, and positivity.

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Family Life Now

Family Life Now Census Update 2e explores the ways that family members and intimate partners interact, and examines how families adapt to stresses, changes, and everyday challenges. As products of our families of origins, who we are and who we become is influenced by our family lives, a central theme woven throughout the book.