The author of an article in NCFR's Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) will receive an award for the article from the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family.

Deborah A. Widiss, J.D., will receive the Groves Conference's Feldman Award for her article, "Legal recognition of same-sex relationships: New possibilities for research on the role of marriage law in household labor allocation," which was published in the March 2016 issue of JFTR.

The award will be given at the 2016 Groves Conference, Aug. 4-7 in Denver Colorado.

The Groves Feldman Award, named for family policy pioneers and former NCFR members Margaret and Harold Feldman, is given for a scholarly publication that focuses on race and ethnicity issues impacting the family.