Friday Five: Marriagelessness and the Loss of National Greatness via Heritage Foundation heritage.org/marriage-and-f… Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Friday Five: March Madness and Your Marriage
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Friday Five: Updates on State Policies and Programs to Support Alternative Routes to Education and Employment
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2023 births, March Madness and your marriage, and more Friday Five via billcoffin
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“Marital quality is, far and away, the top predictor I have run across of life satisfaction in America,” I wrote in *Get Married*.

Derek Thompson isn’t totally convinced.

He offers his own fascinating take on marriage, money & happiness The Atlantic:
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Friday Five: May 8, 2024 02:00 PM: The Power of 100 Years of Research in Informing Policy and Practice for Black Families: Lessons Learned for the Future us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Friday Five: Births: Provisional Data for 2023
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Marriage and the demise of national greatness, research policies and practice for Black families, and more Friday Five via billcoffin
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I gave another talk about the Two Parent Privilege to college students today.

And again, during the Q&A, a college student asked me why I don’t talk about porn/TikTok/OnlyFans, and how addiction to those sites is affecting young people’s ability to form healthy relationships.

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In “couples where the wife makes more money than the husband, she’s very likely to have been the one to initiate divorce [and] these couples were also slightly more likely than average to breakup.”

Of Note: Why are some women choosing children, and lots of them? deseret.com/family/2024/04…

There are sex differences between men and women that impact relationship dynamics for heterosexual couples, and one of those is a greater relative expectation for the male partner to provide. Regan Arntz-Gray
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Of Note: Prof. James Heckman and Dr. Ramsus Landersø explore how various elements like markets, family structures, and educational systems contribute to social mobility and human development.
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Of Note: Haidt identifies four foundational harms of the phone-based childhood: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction. thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/04/94753/
Clare Morell

[Even today], both men and women still view the burden of supporting a family financially to be an important requirement for a good husband. Regan Arntz-Gray
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Of Note: As life expectancy rises and populations age, there are fewer and fewer young people to provide care to the aging. fairerdisputations.org/eldercare/

Of Note: Most voters say that they would replace both Biden and Trump on the presidential ballot if they could. pewrsr.ch/4d9sfGn

In couples where the wife makes more money than the husband, she’s very likely to have been the one to initiate divorce. ifstudies.org/blog/these-boo…

These Boots Were Made for Walking: Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Divorce ifstudies.org/blog/these-boo…

'Rather than denigrating and devaluing child and home care, it should be celebrated for what it is, the backbone of society.' Rosemary L. Hopcroft Inst. Family Studies : ifstudies.org/blog/why-shoul…