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Elllis and Van Campen
from Family Focus on Fatherhood

Early Experience with High-Risk Fathers: Puberty Changes in Daughters by Bruce J.Ellis and Kali Van Campen, Unviersity of AZ

A new study shows that girls start to menstruate earlier when they experience biologically-disrupted homes(families in which the biological parents are separated or divorced) in early childhood. When a girl starts life with a high-risk father in the home, and then the family breaks up and that father leaves, her timing of puberty changes. She gets her first period about a year earlier than does either her older sister or other girls from disrupted families whose fathers do not display high risk behavior.

Navigating Life's Journey

This electronic newsletter series offers tips to people in three areas: personal development, couple relationships, and parenting. Each e-mailed tip includes a quote from an important scholar, a brief discussion of the quote, and an idea for application of the idea. Participants are invited to share with others at a blog.

The Personal Journey

Based on discoveries in positive psychology, this program suggests six keys to well-being. In addition to the summary map, reflection guides and journaling pages are provided. May be used for self-study or for group discussion.

The Marriage Garden

Using gardening as the metaphor for cultivating a healthy couple relationship, this curriculum discusses six principles that make a big difference: commitment, personal growth, nurturing, understanding, solving, and serving. Each principle is discussed in a Lesson Guide that can be used for self-study, mentoring, or group discussion.

See the World Through My Eyes

Each of 21 expectable challenges faced by preschool children is described from the child's point of view, inviting the reader to hear the child's voice and understand the child's need. Taking the child's perspective can help parents respond helpfully to children's developmental challenges.

Richard Rhodes
for Members ONLY

An answer to human violence

by Richard Rhodes, Guest Columnist, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction (1988) and the National Book Award (1987)

I know today, with confidence in the evidence, that violence is not genetic nor merely neurological: violence is learned through a process of violent socialization.

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Spring 2010 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Mentoring Stories

In this issue of NCFR Report, we are covering a unique topic in our Family Focus section. To this point, there's never been an edition that didn't cover an aspect of family studies, per se. This time we will focus not on our field but on how we came to develop professionally in our field. Many, many NCFR members will tell you that the reason they found their chosen career-or have advanced in it-is in part a result of the nurturing guidance of a mentor. NCFR is known for colleague generativity. Read these grateful and fond tributes that mentees have for their mentors.

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March 2008 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on The Transition to Adulthood

From the "Failure to Launch" to "Helicopter Parents," research on young adults reveals that media messages do not tell the story about the 18 - 25 year old population. Developmental psychologists, sociologists, demographers and public policy professionals are helping all of us understand the special needs of those at this important developmental stage. What are the unique concerns of emerging adults? What does the latest research show? How does public policy meet-or fail to meet- their needs? How can family professionals help families through this transition? In this issue of NCFR Report, NCFR experts examine these and other questions.

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June 2007 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Adolescence

No longer children, not yet adults, adolescents are negotiating a unique developmental stage of transition and transformation. What are the risks? What promotes resilience? In this issue of NCFR Report, your colleagues answer these and other questions.

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March 2007 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Families and Social Class

Teasing out the issue of Social Class from other family demographics such as race, ethnicity, occupation, and geographic setting isn't easy. Annette Lareau, Stephen Marks and other scholars will get us started- And so "Class" begins now.