July 2007

Divorce: Nature vs. Nuture

July 31, 2007

In a recent study, divorce is not, in fact, inherent in the genes of separated couples. Instead, family history has been found to play a key role in creating the propensity for divorce later in life. Adults whose own parents divorced had nearly twice the risk of going through a divorce themselves, researchers found. In [...]

Colorado Helps Fathers Co-parent

July 31, 2007

In an effort to strengthen fathers’ roles in their families, Garfield County, CO has created a service program to address this very issue. Named The Family Connection/Responsible Fathers program, it will provide several useful services to better educate dads, including parenting classes, mediation, job search assistance, and referrals to agencies providing substance abuse, domestic violence [...]

Unmarried Motherhood

July 25, 2007

According to two recent studies, over half of out-of-wedlock babies born in the U.S. are born to women who live with the fathers of their children. Cohabitating couples are on the rise and as more couples live together before marriage an increasing number of them are having children. How do you think child custody cases [...]

An Interesting Source

July 23, 2007

As I have referenced the Pew Research Center in a few of my past blogs, I thought I would give more detail as to who they are. The Pew Research Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes towards press, politics, and public policy issues. It’s best known for regular national surveys that [...]

Spring Cleaning to Replace Child Rearing?

July 19, 2007

In a recent survey administered by the Pew Research Center, the importance of children to a successful marriage has fallen to the eighth spot out of nine in total. While placing third on a similar 1990 survey, it seems children are no longer the most important component to a happy marriage. Ahead of having offspring [...]

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