News and Notes

March 2015

Nearly 20% of Same-sex Couple Households Include Children

The latest release of the American Community Survey estimates approximately 225,000 minor children lived in same-sex couple households in the U.S. in 2013. The majority of these children (72%) are living with a female same-sex couple compared to 28% living with a male couple. For more information, see the latest NCFMR Family Profile (FP-15-04) Number of Children Living in Same-Sex Couple Households, 2013.

Note: This profile boasts a new interactive format -- click through to the profile, roll your mouse over the new figures, and watch what happens!

Interactive Profile

Percentage of Minor Children Living with a Female-Female
Same-Sex Couple vs. Male-Male, 2013

Sources: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-year estimates, 2013

New Resources

Family Profiles

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

Median Age at First Marriage, 2013

FP-15-05

Number of Children Living in Same-Sex Couple Households, 2013

FP-15-04

NCFMR in the News

A full list of NCFMR in the News items and media links are available at NCFMR in the News.

Making time for kids? Study says quality trumps quantity

The Washington Post

Midlife Marriage: Love it, Leave it or Reinvent it

AARP

Federal data shows number of unmarried parents at all time high

89.3 KPCC

ASA Files Amicus Brief With Supreme Court in Support of Marriage Equality

Newswise

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Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment (2nd ed.)

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Tools for the Toddler Years: Parenting Support for the Time-Crunched, Always Interrupted, Mobile, Multi-Tasking Parents of Toddlers

Alena C. Johnson, Kaelin M. Olsen, & Victor W. Harris

Balancing Work and Family in the Real World

Robert D. Putnam, Simon & Schuster

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Briefs & Reports

Fragile Families

Effects of Social Disadvantage and Genetic Sensitivity on Children's Telomere Length

Jamie M. Lewis & Rose M. Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau

Remarriage in the United States

Mathematica Policy Research

Human Services for Low-Income and At-Risk LGBT Populations: Identifying the Knowledge Base and Developing a Research Agenda

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Program Results

A national, long-term study of the causes and consequences of childbearing outside marriage

Data

National Center for Children in Poverty

Policy Tracker Glossary

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

Calendar of Events

April

Call for Papers -- JMF Special Issue

50 years of the National Longitudinal Surveys

Date Due: April 1

Link to NCFR

Call for Papers -- 2015 TCRM Workshop

Date Due: Extended to April 3

Link to NCFR TCRM 2015

Call for Papers -- British Society for Population Studies (BSPS)

Date Due: April 12

Link to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Call for Papers -- Sex Roles: A Journal of Research

Gender and the Transition to Parenthood

Date Due: April 15

Link to Springer

2015 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

Registration closes when the workshops reach capacity

Link to ICPSR 3-5 Day Workshops

Early Bird Discount: May 1

Call for Applications -- 2015 ICPSR Sholarhips
Janet Box-Steffensmeier Scholarships & John A. Garcia Scholarships

Date Due: April 15

2015 ICPSR Scholarships

Date Due: April 30

Link to ICPSR

Wisconsin Council on Family Relations (WICFR) 2015 Conference

"Healthy Families <---> Healthy Communities"

Dates: April 16 - 18

Link to WICFR

Illinois Council on Family Relations 2015 Conference

Modern Family

Date: April 17

Link to ilcfr

Call for Applications -- Oklahoma State University Post-doc Grant Writing Program

Center for Family Resilience Post Doctoral Training Program (CFR-PDTP)

Date Due: April 26

Link to OSU

Population Association of America 2015 Annual Meeting

Free Workshop -- Accessing and Using Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN) Data

Date: April 29

Link to Registration Form

Annual Meeting

Dates: April 30 - May 2

Link to PAA

May

2015 Oregon Parenting Educators Conference -- Oregon State University (OSU)

Date: May 11

Link to Oregon State University

Call for Registrations -- 2nd Annual ACS Data Users Conference

Dates: May 11 - 13
Link to ACS

Call for Articles -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)

Undocumented Immigration: Effects of Policy on the Experience of Illegality

Date Due: May 15

Link to RSF

Call for Abstracts -- The Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM)

New Perspectives in Mentoring: A Quest for Leadership Excellence & Innovation

Date Due: May 15

Link to UNM Mentoring Institute

June

Call for Applications -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)

Behavioral Economics

Date Due: June 1

Link to RSF

Call for Papers Human Resource Management Review
The Role of Family Science Theories for Human Resource Management in Family Firm
Date Due: June 15
Link to Call for Papers PDF

Open Registration -- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

Dates: June and July

Link to ICPSR