News and Notes

News and Notes

February 2012

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 details for conferences and workshops, and keep you updated on current research findings.

What's New at the NCFMR...

Fathers & Fathering in Contemporary Contexts
NCFMR 2012 Annual Research Conference

The diversity characterizing today's fathers coupled with the heterogeneity in contemporary fathering behaviors make the NCFMR Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts research conference particularly timely. The goal of this conference is to move forward our understanding of fathers and fathering in contemporary contexts and examine their linkages to well-being, building on the foundation established by the Nurturing Fatherhood conference held in '98.

Our panel of distinguished researchers will address the following substantive topics:

Resident Fathers
Nonresident Fathers
Co-Parenting
Father Involvement and Well-Being
Fathers in Diverse Contexts

Watch for registration details in March, and visit our website often for updates.

Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts

Just Released Data Resources

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing and analyzing nationally representative data with the goal to provide the latest analysis of U.S. families.

The Data Source

Documents describing newly released data sets used by the family research community.

NCFMR in the News

Co-Director Susan Brown Comments on Characteristics of Children Born to Married Couples

The New York Times

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage

Education Appears to Impact Family Formation Experiences Finds Brown

UPI.com

College education delays marriage

I-Fen Lin, NCFMR Affiliate, and Susan Brown, NCFMR Co-Director, Examine Single Baby Boomers Facing Old Age

ADWEEK

An Unmarried Boomer: The growing number of middle-aged singles has significant implications, say two Bowling Green professors

NCFMR Research Finds Boomer Divorce Rate Jumps from 1 in 10 to 1 in 4 Over Past 20 Years

The Palm Beach Post

After age 50, women are divorcing at double the rate of 20 years ago

NCFMR Research Team Finds Crossover in Median Age at First Marriage and First Birth

Historically, women's median age at first birth exceeded their median age at first marriage, suggesting most women got married and then had a first birth. Since 1991, this pattern has reversed, with the median age of first marriage exceeding the median age at motherhood. Now, a substantial proportion of women experience a first birth before they enter marriage. Indeed, the share of births to unmarried women increased from 18% to 40% over the past 30 years. Combining data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the Center for Disease Control's National Vital Statistics, the NCFMR team investigates the trends in women's median age at first marriage and median age at first birth since 1980.

Sources:

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March and Annual Social and Economic Supplements, 2011 and earlier.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. VitalStats. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/vitalstats.htm. [February, 2012].
Martin JA, Hamilton BE, Ventura SJ, et al. Births: Final data for 2009. National vital statistics reports; vol 60 no 1. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2011.
Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Ventura SJ. Births: Preliminary data for 2010. National vital statistics reports web release; vol 60 no 2. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2011.

Family Profile

Crossover in Median Age at First Marriage and First Birth: Thirty Years of Change (FP-12-03)

BGSU CFDR Researchers Wendy K. Watson and Charlie Stelle Discuss Upward Trend of Seniors Dating Online

New research from Bowling Green State University's Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) suggests that people over 60 are the fastest growing demographic in online dating. CFDR researchers Wendy K. Watson and Charlie Stelle presented their findings at an international conference of the Gerontological Society of America.

Seniors take to online dating, say researchers -- Toronto Sun

Introductory Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) Workshop Will Be Held During 2012 PAA Annual Conference

The IFSS is a harmonized data set containing data from ten nationally representative U.S. surveys of family and fertility spanning nearly fifty years. This introductory workshop, to be held during the 2012 PAA annual conference, includes an overview of the data, provides examples of research questions that can be analyzed with the data, and demonstrates how to navigate the IFSS website.

Please see http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/misc/IFSS_brochure.pdf for more details about the IFSS. For planning purposes, please email sarah.hayford@asu.edu if you would like to attend.

The Data Source

Integrated Fertility Survey Series (TDS-12-03)

Upcoming Events

March 2012

Call for Proposals -- 2012 NCFR Annual Conference

Families and Health

Date Due: March 1

Link to NCFR

Southeastern Council on Family Relations 2012 Annual Conference

Looking Out for Families in the Southeast

Dates: March 1-2

Link to SECFR

Request for Proposals -- Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) 2012-2013 Emerging Scholars Small Grants Competition

Research on Family Complexity, Poverty, and Public Policy

Date Due: March 1

Link to IRP

Call for Papers -- International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research (IOSSBR)

Date Due: March 1

Link to IOSSBR

Call for Abstracts -- National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy (NRCCFPP)

Date Due: March 5

Link to NRCCFPP

Call for Applications -- 19th Annual RAND Summer Institute

Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging

Date Due: March 9

Link to RAND Mini-Medical Application

Link to RAND Demography, et al. Application

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report

Teaching Family Science

Date Due: March 21

Contact editor Nancy Gonzalez at nancygonzalez@ncfr.org

Texas Council on Family Relations Annual Conference

Promoting Healthy Families: Positive Family Interactions

Dates: March 29-30

Link to TCFR

Call for Papers -- 2012 Add Health Users Conference

Date Due: March 30

Link to Add Health Submission Guidelines

Rudd Adoption Research Program and Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Annual Adoption Conference

New Worlds of Adoption: Navigating the Teen Years

Date: March 30

Link to UMass Amherst

April 2012

Call for Proposals -- Wisconsin Council on Family Relations

Sustainability: Thriving in Challenging Times

Contact jamikaiserCFLE@gmail.com for submission deadlines and details

Call for Submissions -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

2012 Themed Meeting: Transitions from Adolescence to Adulthood

Date Due: April 5

Link to SRCD

Breakfast with NCCP

Help honor individuals who have made a lasting imprint in the battle against child poverty in America

Date: April 14

Email development@nccp.org

NCFR Feminism & Family Studies Section Seeking Applicants

Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective

Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship

Date Due: April 15

Link to NCFR

Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education (OAGE) Conference

Serving Underserved Populations

Date: April 20

Link to OAGE

International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research (IOSSBR) Spring 2012 Conference

Dates: April 23-25

Link to IOSSBR

Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) Annual Conference

Crossing Boundaries: Public and Private Roles in Assuring Child Well-Being

Dates: April 27-28

Link to CCF

Center for Adolescent Research and Development (CARD) 2012 Conference

Adolescence in the 21st Century: Constants and Challenges

Date: April 28

Link to Mount St. Mary College

May 2012

Call for Applications -- NIJ PhD Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Date Due: May 2

Link to U.S. Department of Justice

Call for Applications -- W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime

Date Due: May 2

Link to U.S. Department of Justice

New Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) Data Set Introductory Workshop

To be held at the PAA 2012 Annual Meeting (see PAA below)

Date: May 2

Link to Population Studies Center (PSC) IFSS Brochure

Population Association of America (PAA) 2012 Annual Meeting

Dates: May 3-5

Link to PAA

2012 Groves Conference on Marriage and Family

Families Creating Sustainable Communities

Dates: May 22-26

Link to Groves Conference

2012 NCFMR Annual Research Conference

Fathers and Fathering in Contemporary Contexts

Dates: May 23-24

Link to NCFMR Conference Website

15th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference

Dates: May 30-June 1

Link to Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation, An Office of the Administration for Children & Families (ACF)

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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 well-being of families, adults, children, and communities and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.

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 AE00000I-05. 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.