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Are We Still Married? Family Structure and Family Policy in the Emerging Age of the Unformed Family
Stepfamily relationships affect elder caregiving plans
Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith? Challenging the Churches to Confront the Impact of Family Change
Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith? represents a major effort to examine and understand the religious and spiritual lives of young adults who experienced parental divorce. In addition to highlighting the most recent scholarly work on the subject, this report offers extended reflections from a ma...
Doomsday
And “something” will probably happen, because anything can happen, and you should always expect the worse. That’s a common motto of those who have suffered family breakdowns and relationship breakups. And it sometimes seems to affect their entire worldview. Because even if the world h...
California Should Not Pass "Multiple Parents" Bill
There are better ways to protect children without conferring full parental status on three or more people. The doctrine of "equitable estoppel" has been used to prevent adults from shedding responsibility for children they promised to support. More explicit agreements between adults agreeing to shar...
How Good for Children Is the 'Good Divorce'? Surprising Findings on Educational Attainment and Marital Success
A New Normal for the American Family: Kids Outside of Marriage
In our own research, while we heard many working–class young adults express reservations about marriage — emphasizing the importance of not “rushing” into marriage, but seeing no problem with having kids in the meantime — they are determined to give their children what so ma...
Reinventing the Family: Good Intentions are Not Enough
As marriage rates plummet and the percentage of intact families sharply declines, experiments that challenge the fundamental nature of the family are adding to the chaos that threatens civil society. A new report released this month by the Institute for American Values and the Commission on Parentho...
What is the ideal number of parents? 2? 4? 5?
A controversial new study by family scholar Elizabeth Marquandt challenges the conventional view that "being wanted" is all that children need. In "One Parent or Five", she documents the growth of contemporary family structures with one, two, three, four, five or even more adults claiming to be pare...
New report criticises devaluing of biological parenthood
Entitled 'One Parent or Five? A Global Look at Today's New Intentional Families', the report challenges assumptions that "intentional parenthood", resulting from surrogacy and sperm or egg donations, is good for children "simply because it is planned in advance of the child's conception." The author...
One Parent or Five?
A report out today...from the Institute for American Values' Commission on Parenthood's Future, surveys the variety of parenthood set-ups that have emerged in the era of reproductive technology and same-sex coupling. One Parent Or Five tracks them around the world. They range from single mothers by ...
One Parent or Five? : A Global Look at Today's New Intentional Families
Is Marriage Important for Children?
More and more couples these days decide to have children without first getting married, a report from the the Institute for American Values reported Tuesday. According to the report, American children are now more likely to have parents who have never married than parents who are divorced... The rep...
Cohabitation has replaced divorce as biggest threat to children
A new report from a pair of organizations dedicated to strengthening the institution of marriage shows that an alarming number of U.S. couples are deciding to have children without being married – a decision that places those children at risk for physical, emotional, financial, and other s...
Is shacking up bad for the kids?
A group of family researchers in the United States is suggesting cohabitation instead of marriage is detrimental for the kids, in a new report out this week. In it, the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values suggest cohabitation has replaced divorce as the great destabilizer...
Children with cohabiting parents on the rise
According to the study, put out by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values Tuesday, children of cohabiting parents are more prone to "externalizing disorders, more aggression," as well as "internalizing disorders, more depression." Kids who have to see their parents date ...
More Unwed Parents Live Together, Report Finds
The number of Americans who have children and live together without marrying has increased twelvefold since 1970, according to a report released Tuesday. The report was published by the National Marriage Project, an initiative at the University of Virginia, and the Institute for American Values, two...
Study: Are Cohabiting Parents Bad for Kids?
As more and more U.S. couples decide to have children without first getting married, a group of 18 family scholars is sounding an alarm about the impact this may have on those children. In a new report out on Tuesday, they say research shows the children of cohabiting parents are at risk for a broad...
Complicated Family Structures: Is More Openness the Answer?
Today there is a trend toward greater openness: less stigma for sexual activity and the bearing and raising of children outside of marriage, less secrecy and shame around adoption, and perhaps a trend toward less secrecy around the use of sperm or egg donation or surrogacy — although the latter...
Complicated Family Structures: Is More Openness the Answer?
Today there is a trend toward greater openness: less stigma for sexual activity and the bearing and raising of children outside of marriage, less secrecy and shame around adoption, and perhaps a trend toward less secrecy around the use of sperm or egg donation or surrogacy — although the latter...