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After the baby: Keeping the couple relationship alive

Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, University of California, Berkeley

The eminent scholars, Philip and Carolyn Cowan, authors of "When Partners become Parents," observe that the most important fact arising from research is that while there is an average decline in relationship satisfaction after baby, those doing best after making the transition tend to be those doing best before.

from Zippy Weekly Videos

This Emotional Life | Relationships -- Fundamental Needs

How can we have more meaningful relationships? Professors Ben Karney and Tom Bradbury from UCLA have created a series of YouTube videos on relationships for PBS. In this video, Professors Karney & Bradbury describe the importance of close relationships in our lives. Dr. Karney will be one of our plenary speakers at the annual conference in November!

Pathways magazine cover Winter 2011 Issue

from Stress and Early Childhood Brain Development

Pathways Magazine - Winter 2011

The Shriver Report on Women and Alzheimer's

The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's will be the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary look at these questions at this transformational moment. The Report will digest the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer's, examine cutting-edge medical research, look at societal impacts, and include a groundbreaking and comprehensive national poll. It will feature original photography and personal essays by men and women - some from the public arena with names you know, some from everyday America - sharing their personal struggles with the disease as patients, caregivers and family members.

from United Nations Enable on Facebook

Mothers' Day - by Anderson Cooper and mom!

Last Sunday was Mothers' Day. In this charming video, CNN journalist Anderson Cooper observes the day by talking with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, the famous clothing designer and descendant of the renowned Vanderbilt family. Ms. Vanderbilt, in her tongue in cheek humorous way, chides Anderson for not coming home for Mothers' Day.