News and Notes

March 2016

Change in Nonmarital Births
New Family Profiles Series

As American women increasingly postpone marriage but not childbearing, the share of births to unmarried mothers has increased since the 1990s. However, not all births occurring outside of marriage are to women who have never been married, due in part to high levels of divorce. In a newly released Family Profiles Series, Change in Nonmarital Births, the NCFMR presents a quarter century of change in births to never and previously married women in the U.S. Between 1990 and 2013, the share of nonmarital births to never married women increased while the proportion of nonmarital births to previously married women declined. The shift mostly reflects the increasing births to never married cohabiting women over the past 2.5 decades. The relationship context of births to never married women shifted from single to cohabiting unions, but the context of births to previously married women changed little over time. The profiles further describe the narrowing racial/ethnic gap and the persistently wide educational differences in nonmarital fertility in the U.S.

Share of Nonmarital Births to Never

and Previously Married Women

Source: National Survey of Family Growth, 1995 and 2011/13

New at the NCFMR

Family Profiles

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

A Quarter Century Change in Nonmarital Births

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A Quarter Century Change in Nonmarital Births: Racial/Ethnic Differences

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A Quarter Century Change in Nonmarital Births: Differences by Educational Attainment

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Family Profiles Series

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

Change in Nonmarital Births

Conference Presentations and Posters

Posters addressing specific topics related to family structure and well-being given by NCFMR and CFDR faculty, staff, and students during Population Association of America (PAA) annual meetings. PAA is a non-profit, scientific, professional organization that promotes research on population issues.

Congratulations to our three poster award recipients!

Living Apart Together (LAT) Relationships in the U.S.

Susan Brown (R), Wendy Manning, Krista Payne, & Huijing Wu (L)

Measuring the Distal Determinants of Unintended Fertility Across Three Datasets

Sarah Hayford (OSU), Karen Guzzo, Vanessa Lang, & Sarah Garver (OSU)

The Shifting Geography of Divorce: Divorce Rates Across Counties and States 2000-2010

Wendy Manning (R), Krista Payne, Gwen Zugarek, & Bart Stykes (L)

Thank you BGSU participants for your strong presence at this year's PAA annual meeting.

View all 14 BGSU posters

NCFMR in the News

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

Living with Your Partner? No Problem, More Americans Say

livescience

Americans OK gay marriage, cautious on divorce

NBC News

Don't Let Divorce Derail Your Retirement

Time

Il benessere economico dei figli nelle famiglie con due madri omosessuali

Neodemos

Healing through Faith: Praying to restore mind, body, and spirit

The Blade

BGSU Associate Professor Karen Guzzo Elected to
NCFR Board

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Guzzo! She has been recently elected as a member-at-large on the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Board of Directors. Guzzo also serves as an NCFMR research affiliate and as associate director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR).

Just Released

Books

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Emerging Evidence, Lessons and Practice in Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Global Review

World Bank

The Little Data Book on Gender

Briefs & Reports

Julia Mendez, Danielle A. Crosby, & Heather M. Helms, National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families

Using Existing Large-Scale Data to Study Early Care and Education Among Hispanics: Families' Utilization of Early Care and Education

Pew Research Center

United Nations

World Economic and Social Survey 2014/2015: Learning from National Policies Supporting MDG Implementation

Data

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

National Children's Study (NCS) Vanguard Data and Sample Archive

Media

NICHD Data and Specimen Hub (Dash) update

Dash

Calendar of Events

April

Center for Urban Families 2016 Practitioners Leadership Institute (PLI) Summit
Rebuilding Hope & Creating Change
Dates: April 5 - 7
Link to PLI

Call for Proposals -- Society for Research in Child Development
Technology and Media in Children's Development
Date Due: April 6
Conference Dates: October 27 - 30
Link to SRCD

Texas Council on Family Relations (TXCFR) 2016 Conference
Promoting Healthy Families: Partnership with Schools
Dates: April 7 - 8
Link to TXCFR

Oklahoma Council on Family Relations 2016 Conference
Healthy Families: Building Healthy Relationships
Date: April 8
Link to OKCFR

2016 Relationship Enhancement & Filial Therapy Conference -- National Institute of Relationship Enhancement and the Association for Filial and Relationship Enhancement Methods
Dates: April 8 - 9
Link to National Institute of Relationship Enhancement

Webinar: Integrating Domestic Violence Awareness in FLE Work - NCFR
Private No More: Integrating Domestic Violence Awareness in the Work of Family Life Education
Date: April 14
Link to NCFR

Southern Sociological Society (SSS) 2016 - 79th Annual Meeting

The Politics of Marriage: From Intimacy to Public Policy

Dates: April 13 - 16

SSS

Call for Papers -- Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (Emerald Group Publishing)
Researching Kids and Teens: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations
Date Due: April 15
Link to UCLA CCPR

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User Workshop -- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
Date Due: April 15
Link to ICPSR

Call for Submissions -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
Babies, Boys, and Men of Color
Date Due: April 18
Conference Dates: October 6 - 8
Link to SRCD

SDG Gender Equality & Family Policies Conference
Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality: the role of family policies and exchange of good practices
Dates: April 19 - 20
Link to COFACE

The Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Video Lecture Series Live Panel Discussion -- Iowa State University College of Human Sciences, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Envisioning the Future of Healthy Families by Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
Date: April 20
Link to NCFR

Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR)

Spring Symposia
Economic Inequality and Family Change
Date: April 21
Link to CFDR

Latent Variable Modeling Workshop Using Mplus -- Serve, Inc. & University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)
Dates: May 9 - 12
Link to Serve, Inc. and UNCG

Northwest Council on Family Relations 2016 Conference
Engaging Youth in Schools and Communities: Enhancing Protective Factors
Dates: April 21 - 22
Link to NWCFR

May

Call for Applications -- Berkeley Population Center and the Center on Economics and Demography of Aging 2nd Annual Workshop on Formal Demography
Fertility and Mortality Patterns Over Time
Date Due: May 1
Conference Dates: August 15 - 19
Link to UC Berkeley Population Center

Special Issue Call for Papers -- Early Child Development and Care
Reconsidering Play in the Early Years
Date Due: May 1
Link to Taylor & Francis Online

A 2-Day Workshop: Intensive Longitudinal Analyses for Diary and Experience Sampling Data -- Oklahoma State University
Early Bird Registrations Due: May 1
Workshop Dates: May 19 - 20
Link to Oklahoma State University

Call for Papers -- Special Issue of Population and Environment
The Environmental Dimensions of Fertility and Decision-Making
Date Due: May 30
Submit Applications to: Lori Hunter, Editor-in-Chief, Lori.Hunter@colorado.edu
Link to Population and Environment Guidelines

Call for Papers, 42nd Quetelet Conference, 2016 -- UCL
Men's perspective in unions, fertility and parenthood
Date Due: May 31
Conference Dates: November 9 - 10
Link to PDF

NSEC16 Call for Proposals -- The Center for Sex Education
Date Due: May 31
Conference Dates: December 7 - 10
Link to NSEC

June

Call Submissions -- Journal of Family Social Work
Special Issue - Military Family Life
Date Due: June 1
Link to Taylor & Francis Online

Call for Submissions -- Special Issue of Biodemography and Social Biology
Health of Men and Women
Date Due: June 1
Link to Taylor & Francis Online

Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling Workshop -- Brigham Young University (BYU) Family Studies Center and School of Family Life
Registrations Due: June 1
Conference Dates: June 16 & 17
Link to BYU

2016 Teaching Family Science Conference
Ecological Theories and the Family Science Classroom
Early Registrations Due: May 15
Dates: June 1 - 2
Link to Family Science Association

Call for Manuscripts -- Special Issue Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies
Intersectional Variations in the Experiences of Queer Families
Date Due: June 1
Link to NCFR Call for Papers PDF

Biennial Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)
Dates: June 1 - 3
Link to RECS

Summer Institute (SI) in Survey Research Techniques
Dates: June 6 - July 29
Link to SI

107th Annual Conference & Expo -- American Association of Family & Consumer
Sciences (AAFC)
Improving the Health and Well-Being of a Changing Society
Dates: June 22 - 25
Link to AAFC

Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research
Dates: June 27 - July 1
Link to UCL