News and Notes

November 2015

Marriage Rate in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2014

The figure below illustrates the variation of women's marriage rate among states in 2014 in the newly released profile, Marriage Rate in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2014. The highest marriage rates are in the Western region (top 25%), while the lowest marriage rates are in the Eastern region (bottom 25%). Comparing 2014 to 2013, Utah continues to have the highest marriage rate (59.2), and Rhode Island continues to have the lowest marriage rate (24.3). Alaska, Wyoming, and Washington, DC had the greatest increases of marriage rates in 2014. North Dakota, South Dakota, and Hawaii had the largest decreases of marriage rates in 2014. North Carolina, Illinois, and Massachusetts had virtually unchanged marriage rates since 2013.

Geographic Variation of Women's Marriage Rate Among States, 2014

Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-yr est.

New Resources

Family Profiles

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

FP-15-20

Marriage Rate in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2014

FP-15-19

Marriage-to-Divorce Ratio in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2014

Family Profiles Series
The Series showcases select themes that are research and policy relevant.

U.S. Families in 2014

Working Papers Series

A series of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students examining family structure topics of interest to family scholars, policy makers, and practitioners.

WP-15-01
Lin, I-Fen, Brown, Susan L., & Hammersmith, Anna M. (November 2015). Marital Biography, Social Security, and Poverty.
- Forthcoming in Research on Aging.

Resources by Topic
The NCFMR supports innovative research on families and produces many data products by topic using a wide range of data resources.

Gray Divorce

NCFMR in the News

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

Gray Divorce

Guzzo Attends NCFR & SLLS Annual Meetings

Dr. Karen Guzzo attended the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Vancouver, BC, from November 11-13. She had two research presentations: "Do Half-Siblings Affect Adolescent Risk-Taking in Stepfamilies?" (with Cassandra Dorius, Iowa State) and "Cohabiting Stepfamilies: Is Configuration Associated with Outcomes and Stability?" She also co-presented (with Claire Kamp Dush, Ohio State) a session on "How to Be Productive in a 40-Hour Work Week." Prior to the NCFR meeting, Dr. Guzzo also presented "The Role of Educational Aspirations and Attainment in Explaining Early Unintended Childbearing" (with Sarah Hayford, OSU) at the annual meeting of the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) in Dublin, Ireland in October.

Lin Presents Research Poster at GSA

Dr. I-Fen Lin attended The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) annual meeting in sunny Orlando, FL, to present her NIA-funded research with Dr. Susan Brown and BGSU PhD students Matthew Wright and Anna Hammersmith. Lin presented a paper, "A Cohort Comparison of Gray Divorce: Two Decades of Change," and a poster, "Antecedents of Divorce in Later Life."

Just Released

Books

Michael D. Maltz & Stephen K. Rice, Springer

Envisioning Criminology

Andrei Rogers, Springer

Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Distribution

Carla Shedd, Russell Sage Foundation

Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice

Briefs and Reports

Kimberly Daniels, Jill Daugherty, Jo Jones, & William Mosher, National Health Statistics Reports

Current Contraceptive Use and Variation by Selected Characteristics Among Women Aged 15-44: United States, 2011-2013

Tamara Halle, Diane Paulsell, Sarah Daily, Anne Douglass, Shannon Moodie, & Allison J. R. Metz

Implementing Parenting Interventions in Early Care and Education Settings: A Guidebook for Implementation

Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

Raising Kids and Running a Household: How Working Parents Share the Load

Journals

The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Data

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) 2015

General Social Survey (GSS)

GSS 1972-2014 File Update

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

Add Health Public Use Data

Calendar of Events

November

National Families & Fathers 17th Annual Conference -- Fathers & Families Coalition of America (FFCA)
Beauty Can Come From Ashes
Early Bird Registration: November 30
Conference Dates: February 16 - 19, 2016
Link to FFCA

Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)

Construction of an Effective Parenting Coordination Process: Structure, Tools, and Techniques

Dates: November 30 - December 1

Complex Issues in Family Law and Child Custody

Dates: December 2 - 3

Link to AFCC

December

Call for Papers -- Research in Race and Ethnic Relations
Health, Crime and Punishment of African American Males: Enduring Social Costs of Racial Inequality
Date Due: December 1
Link to Emerald Group Publishing

Call for Applications -- Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being
Date Due: December 1
Link to Chapin Hall

Call for Applications, 2016-2018 Cohort -- Office of Behavioral and Social Science (OBSSR)
Postdoc Training Opportunities from the Harvard Population Center
Date Due: December 7
Link to the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies opportunities below

Call for Proposals -- National Partnership for Community Leadership (NPCL) International Fatherhood Conference
Strengthening Parenting Relationship Assets to Improve the Well-being of Children
Date Due: December 18
Conference Dates: June 14 - 17, 2016
Link to NPCL

Call for Papers -- Health, Wellness & Society 6th International Conference
Evaluating Health Policy and Practice -- Wellness and 'Civic' Responsibility
Date Due: December 20
Conference Dates: October 20 - 21, 2016
Link to Health, Wellness & Society

January 2016

Call for Proposals -- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Symposium on International Family Studies
Building Family Strengths Through International Family Studies
Date Due: January 4
Conference Dates: April 29 - 30
Link to UNL

Call for "Letter of Inquiry" Application -- Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)
Date Due: January 5
Link to RSF

Call for Papers -- American Sociological Association 2016 Annual Meeting
Rethinking Social Movements: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World?
Date Due: January 6
Conference Dates: August 20 - 23
Link to ASA

Call for Manuscripts -- Family Science Review
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Family Science
Date Due: January 10
Link to Family Science Association

Call for Manuscripts -- Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research
Divorce, Separation, and Remarriage: The Transformation of Family
Date Due: January 23
Link to Emerald Group Publishing

February

Call for Articles -- NCFR Report Magazine
Families and Obesity
Date Due: February 21
Link to NCFR