The marriage rate declined by 10% during the Great Recession, falling from 37.5 marriages per 1,000 unmarried persons in 2008 to 33.8 in 2010. Since then, the marriage rate has not rebounded to pre-recession levels, yielding a 28% decrease in the marriage rate since 2000. For more details about the decline in marriage rate, see the most recent NCFMR profile The Marriage Rate and the Great Recession (FP-14-18).  

2000 data - NVS; 2008-2013 - ACS, 1-year estimates

 

Call for Applications -- Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
2015-2017 Cohort David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Date Due: December 1
Link to Harvard School of Public Health

Call for Papers -- Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal
Special Issue on Working with Military Families
Date Due: December 1
Link to Springer

Summit on Military-to-Civilian Transition
Service Member to Civilian: A National Summit on Improving Transitions
Dates: December 2 & 3
Link to The University of Alabama

AAFCS Family & Consumer Sciences Day
Date: December 3
Link to AAFCS

Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)

• The Model Standards and Beyond: Custody Evaluations and Risk Management
  Dates: December 8 - 9
• Parenting Coordination: Strategies for Helping Parents Improve Communication and Reduce Conflict
  Dates: December 10 - 11

Link to AFCC Online Registration
Link to AFCC 

 

Call for Abstracts -- Aging and Family Research of the International Sociological Association and the Aging Studies Institute of Syracuse University 

Aging Families, Changing Families: An International Conference

Date Due: December 15

Link to Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute 

 

Call for Applications -- Society for Research in Child Development SRCD 

Congressional and Executive Branch Fellowships

Date Due: December 15

Link to SRCD 

 

Call for Applications -- University of Texas Population Research Center 

The NLSY 1997 Postsecondary Research Network

Date Due: December 19

Link to University of Texas PRC 

Email Proposals to Elizabeth Johnson ejohnson@prc.utexas.edu 

 

Call for Papers -- Sociological Studies of Children and Youth

Technology and Youth: Growing up in a Digital World

Date Due: December 31

Link to Emerald Group Publishing 

 

Call for Briefs -- UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform 

UN Global Sustainable Development Report 2015 Edition 

Date Due: December 31

Link to UN 

 

 

January 2015 

 

Call for Articles -- RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession 

Date Due: January 7 

Link to Russell Sage Foundation  

 

5th Annual Arizona Methods Workshops -- School of Sociology University of Arizona

Dates: January 8 - 10

Link to The University of Arizona 

 

Call for Papers -- The University College Dublin (UCD) and the Research Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association International Seminar on Family Policy

Individualism, Internationalisation and Family Policy

Date Due: January 12

Link to UCD  

 

Call for Papers -- 39th Annual Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education (OAGE) Conference

The Faces of Aging: Community and Connectedness

Date Due: January 19

Link to OAGE 

 

Call for Papers -- Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 

Removing the Mask, Lifting the Veil: Race, Class, and Gender in the 21st Century

Date Due: January 31

Link to SSSP