Resources
Weekly Newsletter Resources
Each week, NARME distributes a newsletter to your email. These include links to articles and resources. These will be updated weekly here as well.
November 4, 2024
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A new research study from the University of Michigan explored the way a child's brain changes in response to harsh or warm parenting. Their findings can help practitioners know when intervention is most helpful.
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A woman in her twenties shares insights into the struggle than many young adults are facing when it comes to relationships in this article.
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Kids, and adults, learn through a variety of methods. This article and song were created to help kids learn how to practice mindfulness and improve their mental health.
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An associate professor of human development and family science shares advice in this article on how individuals and families can care for their mental health during elections.
October 28, 2024
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New data from Bowling Green State University, explored in this article, shows that gray divorce is largely a Baby Boomer generation phenomenon.
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A recently published study from the University of Georgia reinforces the vital role parents play in developing their child's social skills.
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In 2021, the EU 4 Gender Equality program began its Fathers' Schools initiative to promote greater parenting balance. This article shares the success of this initiative.
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This article provides details on two grants funding research at the University of Illinois to study infant sleep patterns and emotion regulation.
October 21, 2024
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This recent study brings to light the impact childhood adversities, like abuse and neglect, have on developing self-reflection and emotion processing skills.
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In 1974 in South Boston, two Sisters created a learning center to help support low-income, single mothers. This article shares how this program has expanded over the past 50 years.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has four upcoming grant opportunities available for organizations wishing to help strengthen their communities. See the flyer here for more information.
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Blending families is difficult no matter the circumstances. This article provides guidance on how to ease the process.
October 14, 2024
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This first-of-its-kind study explores the rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) being reported by high schoolers. ACEs are connected to multiple risk behaviors and health conditions across the lifespan.
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A recent study from Rutgers University has found a link between genetic predispositions for psychiatric disorders and divorce. These findings came from a sample of over 2,800,000 Swedish individuals.
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Children and adolescents are increasingly becoming more reliant on their peers than their parents. This article addresses the need for parents to reclaim their crucial role to help their kids navigate crises.
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Many parents seek childcare opportunities for their children. This report analyzes the trends of how and where parents are looking for these options.
October 7, 2024
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This study explores the topics of family conflict. Three family groups were studied: couples, parent-younger children, and parent-teenager.
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The findings from this new study support the need for more attachment focused intervention for individuals or couples with cumulative childhood trauma.
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This article addresses the need for marriage education for young parents and offers suggestions and tips for how to help further educate them.
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Read about creative ways to teach preschool-aged children about emotional regulation and resilience in this article.
September 30, 2024
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Facilitating Friendships:
Parents' Role
In a recent study from the University of Michigan Health C. S. Mott's Children Hospital, 1 in 5 parents share concerns that their child has no friends.
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Mind Matters: Implementing with Diverse Audiences in New Mexico
Attend this free webinar on Oct. 9 at 1pm PT/4pm ET. The New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Family Life team will be sharing the successes and challenges in implementing the Mind Matters curriculum in their community.
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Educational Tool for Professionals, Families Going Through Contentious Divorces
University of New Mexico Adjunct Professor Lawrence Jones has created this brief video resource to help refocus contentious divorces back on helping the children.
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A Comprehensive Approach to Wellness for All School Staff
The well-being of school students is impacted not just by their teachers, but by all the staff at their school. This Child Trends article identifies specific strategies to better support all school staff.
Articles
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Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Popular discussions of changes in American families over the past 60 years have revolved around the "retreat from marriage." Concern has focused on increasing levels of nonmarital childbearing, as well as falling marriage rates that stem from both increases in the age at first marriage and greater marital instability. Often lost in these discussions is the fact that the decline of marriage has coincided with a rise in cohabitation.
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Cruising at Altitude: Reconciling a High Divorce Rate with High Marital Satisfaction Ratings
While many couples divorce, most people report being happily married when surveyed. Those facts seem at odds. There are some simple and complex methodological explanations for this, but I have long thought about the explanation using a metaphor of an airplane in flight. That is what I present here.
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What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
In America today, it’s easy to believe that marriage is a social good—that our lives and our communities are better when more people get and stay married. There have, of course, been massive changes to the institution over the past few generations, leading the occasional cultural critic to ask: Is marriage becoming obsolete?
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Viewing Relationship Education through the Lens of Social Poverty
I have waited anxiously for Sarah Halpern-Meekin’s new book, Social Poverty: Low-income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties, since I first heard her describe the study and writing project three years ago. I wasn’t disappointed.
NEWS
Emotional Intelligence Is Key to Successful Leadership
Leadership skills are, in many contexts—the workplace, schools and classrooms, politics, volunteer organizations, and even within families—fairly recognizable. People who take initiative, who have a vision, and who can strategize, plan, and accomplish goals to achieve their vision are considered good leaders.
Do Premarital Education Promotion Policies Work?
Today, approximately 40 to 50% of first marriages and 60% of second marriages end in divorce in the United States.1 Divorce has been a popular topic in research for decades. Numerous studies have documented the greater risks of negative outcomes for individuals and families associated with divorce.
Research
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Relationship education (RE) is any type of course, program, or brief intervention that seeks to strengthen the couple relationship and help them achieve their goals for a happy and loving partnership (Markman et al., 2022). It also includes relationship literacy education for individuals, including youth and young adults, to help them envision and prepare for healthy romantic relationships. RE is not therapy. It emphasizes education to prevent problems or reduce them when they begin to emerge. RE courses teach concepts such as communication skills, setting realistic expectations, and deepening commitment to and understanding of a partner (Hawkins & Boyd, 2018). RE is available to all types of people in all different kinds of situations — married or unmarried, gay or straight, young or old, stable or struggling.
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What helps us the most to thrive, as individuals and as a society? Money or marriage? Assets or relationships?
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Impact Report: Research on the Impact of Relationship and Marriage Education Programs in California is the product of the largest cross-site, cross-program study ever conducted on the impact of RME. "Having collected outcome data from thousands of participants in RME classes taught in California between 2007 and 2012, we now have empirical research that reveals just how great a positive impact these programs have on participants," explains HRC President Patty Howell.
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