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Couple Relationships in Marital and Work Contexts - Audio Recording

Panelists discuss Latent Profiles of Time Adequacy for Work, Parenting, and Partner Roles ; Sense of Entitlement in Couple Relationships ; Couple Intimacy and Relationship Satisfaction in Long-term Marriages: A Longitudinal Study ; Use of Computer Mediated Communication in Romantic Relationships and Adult Attachment ; Romantic Relationships Mediated by Technology

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New Approaches to Studying American Families in a Changing Society - Audio Recording

Increasing diversity in family forms challenges traditional notions of family. The number of married couples has fallen to about half of households, and multiracial families are rising. These shifts are significant for both parent and child well-being. Given these shifting trends, research that challenges traditional notions of who "counts" as a parent, child, or other family member is essential for the development of policies and programs.

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Couple/Partner Interactions - Audio Recording

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

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PDF: CFLE Network - Fall 2012

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CFLE Network - Summer 2012

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A Review of "Children's Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping"

A review of Children's Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. The book is an excellent resource for caregivers, including professionals, parents, family and friends “who seek to help children as they attempt to cope with death-related issues.” The book includes five sections focusing on developmental characteristics of children and adolescents, ethical considerations, death, bereavement and intervention and includes an annotated appendix with other twenty pages of books to be read by or with children.

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Wrestling with sacred matters: A new theory in family studies

by Loren Marks, associate professor, Louisiana State University

I have been asked to offer a brief, distilled version of the new theory former NCFR President Wes Burr published in his recent volume Sacred Matters (2012), co-authored with Randy Day and myself. Before doing so, I would like to tell you a little about the experience of wrestling with the Sacred Matters book.

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The back side of the storm: Clergy families in distress

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.

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Distant immigrant patriarch to expressive dad: Father school as gender boot camp

by Allen J. Kim, doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Across the United States and worldwide, a growing number of men are actively searching for the answer to the fundamental question: What does it mean to be a father today? Father School is a South Korean-inspired men’s movement that has been at the forefront of mobilizing immigrant and nonimmigrant fathers to become actively involved in their families.

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Fathers and spirituality: Faithfully fathering for life

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.

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