News and Notes
 October 2010
   
Welcome
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to News and Notes, our monthly electronic newsletter. News and Notes aims to keep you informed about the activities of the NCFMR. We will also announce funding and research opportunities, provide registration information for conferences and workshops, and keep you up to date on current research findings.
What's New at the NCFMR...

The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.

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Resources by Topic Now Available on Website
A variety of NCFMR research products organized by topic.
View Resources by Topic webpage

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New Family Profiles and Working Papers Released


Family Profiles
A collection of profiles examining topics related to NCFMR's core research themes. Original reports summarize the latest statistics from the American Community Survey on U.S. families.

Same-Sex Couple Households in the U.S., 2009 (FP-10-08)
Trends in Cohabitation: Twenty Years of Change, 1987-2008 (FP-10-07)

View Family Profiles webpage

Working Papers

A collection of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students.

Eirik Evenhouse and Siobhan Reilly
Multiple-Father Fertility, Prevalence and Connection to the Criminal Justice System
(WP-10-15)

Lauren Rinelli
Better Parents, More Stable Partners: Union Transitions Among Cohabiting Parents (WP-10-14)

Patricia Pendry
 
Exploring Links between
Interparental Discord, Children's Physiological Stress-System Activity, and Negative Affectivity (WP-10-13)

Tera Hurt

Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Meaning of Marriage Among Black Men (WP-10-12)

View Working Paper Series webpage
 
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New Webpage Highlights NCFMR in the News
 

We recently added a link to our website that highlights NCFMR research in the national and local news.

View NCFMR in the News webpage
 

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NCFMR Co-Director Wendy Manning and U of M Sociologist Pamela Smock's Research Showcased in Newsweek
Does 'Living in Sin' Still Lead to Divorce?

Cohabitation numbers have doubled since the late '70s, as living together before marriage has become more common across the U.S.  Who and why couples decide to cohabit has changed over the past 40 years. Money issues may contribute to the rise in cohabiting and are likely to play a major role in a couple's future prospects for a relationship.  "Many of the cohabitations that started for economic reasons during the Great Recession are "fragile" and probably won't result in marriage, says Wendy Manning, co-director of the NCFMR."

Read full Newsweek article

Read JMF article "Everything's There Except Money": How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry Among Cohabitors
 


 

Upcoming Events

November 2010

Call for Papers -- Special Issue of Family Relations
Relationship Dissolution Within a Contemporary Context: Implications for Education, Practice, and Policy
Date Due:  November 1
Link to NCFR

Call for Proposals -- Young Scholars Program
The Foundation for Child Development: Changing Faces of America's Children
Date Due:  November 3
Link to Foundation for Child Development

National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 72nd Annual Conference
Families and Innovation
Date:  November 3-6
Location:  Minneapolis Hilton Towers, Minneapolis, MN
Link to NCFR

Call for Research Proposals -- National Bureau of Economic Research
The Household Finance (HHF) Working Group
Date Due:  November 8
Link to NCFR

ICPSR Social Sciences Data Fair Webinars
Dates:  November 8-11
Link to ICPSR Sessions and Presentations

Call for Proposals -- Wake Forest University and The John Templeton Foundation

New Frontiers in the Psychology of Character
Date Due: November 29
Link to The Character Project

December 2010

Call for Proposals Available -- Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood
The 5th Conference on Emerging Adulthood
Date Available: December 15 
Link to SSEA

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report
Couples
Date Due:  December 21, 2010
Email [email protected] to obtain submission guidelines


 
 
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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research, established in 2007 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to improve our understanding of how family structure and marriage affect the health and wellbeing of families, adults, children and communities and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.
 
 
 
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This project was supported with a grant from the U.S. Department of

 Health and Human

Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, grant 5 UOI AEOOOOOI-04. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s)

and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the

 Federal government.