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News and Notes

April 2013 

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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to our monthly electronic newsletter News and Notes. 

 

News and Notes aims to inform you about the activities of the NCFMR. We will update you on current research findings, announce research opportunities, and provide registration details for upcoming conferences and workshops.

Seth Williams, NCFMR Undergraduate Research Assistant, Accepts Internship with Child Trends
Receives Two BGSU Student Awards

Congratulations to NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant Seth Williams who will move to Washington, DC this summer. Seth will be working as an intern in the Strategic Communications department for Child Trends, in conjunction with the Department of Adolescent Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to Williams' professional achievement, he was honored with two academic achievements.

Williams received the BGSU Friends of the Library 2012-2013 Undergraduate Research Award for demonstrating significant growth as a scholar in his methods of research and analysis. Williams' presentation to the review committee included originality of thought, mastery of content, clear writing, and overall quality. He was honored with a cash award and certificate of achievement at the annual Authors and Artists Celebration in April.

Additionally, he was honored with the Dr. Aida Tomeh Memorial Scholarship award. Williams was recognized as outstanding graduating senior majoring in Sociology. He received the award based on his academic, community, and departmental involvement. The award was presented at the College of Arts and Sciences annual awards reception on April 16. Williams attended with his parents and Dr. Susan Brown, whom he invited as his favorite professor.

Williams will return to Bowling Green in the fall, when he will join the BGSU sociology graduate program as a graduate research assistant.


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Summer Graduate Research Assistants Return to NCFMR
Two Students Depart 

The NCFMR welcomes Larry Gibbs and Bart Stykes for summer semester 2013. Gibbs returns after one semester of teaching, and Stykes continues his research from spring semester.

In addition to Seth Williams' departure from the NCFMR (see article above), Julissa Cruz, graduate research assistant, is leaving at the end of spring semester to work as a Research Associate at the Office of Research & Evaluation for the City Colleges of Chicago.


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Employment Rate Highest for Women with School Aged Children in Household

In 2011, the employment rate for all women ages 16 and older was 53%. However, women's employment rates vary by the presence of children in the household, with higher employment rates among women with children present in the household versus women with no resident children.
  • Women who live in households with school aged children (6-17) have the highest employment rate (71%) followed by women with resident children less than 6 years of age (59%) and women with no children in the household (50%). 

Women's Employment Rate by
Presence of Children in the Household, 2011
Bar Chart
Source:
  • U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates, 2011
 

What's New at the NCFMR...

 

 

Family Profiles

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


Question Crosswalks 
Spreadsheets provide users with measures of cohabitation, marriage, household roster, and/or household composition across more than 50 large national data sets from 8 U.S. agencies. 

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Just Released

 

Upcoming Events 

 

 

May 2013

 

Open Registration -- MAXQDA Workshop

NCFR One-Day Pre-Conference Workshop

 

Call for Abstracts -- Third International Conference on Family Planning

Date Due: May 1

 

Call for Applications -- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data

Date Due: May 3

Link to ICPSR  

 

Minnesota Council on Family Relations (MCFR) Spring Conference

Improving the Future for Families: Building Resilience and Managing Stress

Date: May 3

Link to MCFR 

 

Call for Applications -- Center for Demography of Health and Aging

2013 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) Pilot Grant Program

Date Due: May 6

 

Call for Applications -- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research 

Family Connections Across Generations and Nations: Jamaica, Guyana, and the United States

Date Due: May 6

 

Call for Proposals -- Grand Challenges in Global Health

One Health 

Date Due: May 7

Link to Grand Challenges in Global Health  

 

Call for Proposals -- Grand Challenges in Global Health

Reducing the Burden of Preterm Birth

Date Due: May 7

Link to Grand Challenges in Global Health   

 

Call for Applications -- Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research

Summer Institute in Survey Research (SISR) Techniques

Date Due: May 15

Link to SISR 

 

 

June 2013

 

Call for Papers -- Family Relations

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Strengthening Family and Individual Resilience: Conceptual, Empirical and Practical Innovations

Date Due: June 1

Link to NCFR 

 

66th Annual Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Dates: June 3-July 26

 

Summer Institute in Mental Health Research -- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) 

Dates: June 10-20

 

2013 Teaching Family Science Conference -- Family Science Association

Preparing Family Science Students and Practitioners for a Globalizing World

Dates: June 12-14 

Link to Family Science Association  

 

Call for Articles -- NCFR Report Magazine

Family Therapy

Date Due: June 21

Link to NCFR 

 




 


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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.

 

 
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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 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.

 

 


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