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News and Notes
October 2011
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Welcome
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to News and Notes, our monthly electronic newsletter. News and Notes aims to keep you informed about the activities of the NCFMR. We will also announce funding and research opportunities, provide registration details for conferences and workshops, and keep you updated on current research findings.
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What's New at the NCFMR... The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.  Co-Director Susan Brown Discusses Intimate Relationships of Aging Baby Boomers
Partnering in Later Life: New Frontiers in Family Research Susan Brown, NCFMR Co-Director, addressed recent trends and patterns in intimate relationships as part of BGSU's College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. She also addressed partnership dynamics and their consequences for individual well-being. NCFMR faculty, students, and BGSU/NCFMR research affiliates attended Brown's lecture on the BGSU campus in October. Dr. Brown's research on the aging Baby Boomer population has recently been featured in The Fiscal Times, AARP, and FoxBusiness. 
Just Released Data Resources Family Profiles Original reports summarizing the latest statistics on U.S. families. The Data Source Documents describing newly released data sets used by the family research community. Working Paper Series A collection of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students. - Kei Nomaguchi and Melissa A. Milkie
- Heather J. Bachman and Rebekah Levine Coley published in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2011) 39:1149-1161 DOI 10.1007/s10802- 011-9535-1
If you have written a paper addressing a family issue that aligns with our mission statement and would like for us to consider adding it to the NCFMR Working Paper Series, we welcome submissions for consideration and possible inclusion. You may electronically submit your working papers to ncfmr@bgsu.edu
NCFMR in the News NCFMR BGSU Research Affiliate Peggy Giordano Discusses Influence of Romantic Partner's Friends ScienceNews Susan Brown Comments on Factors Influencing Long-Term  Marriages Toledo Blade NCFMR Finds Two-Fold Increase in Divorce Rate for Baby Boomers Ohio.com |
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Research Team of Larry Gibbs and Krista Payne Find Link Between Rate of First Divorce and Educational Attainment
Larry Gibbs, graduate research assistant, and Krista Payne, social science data analyst, working on a collaborative research project, discovered a direct link between the rate of first divorce and a woman's educational attainment.
Although the last four decades have seen an increase in the proportion of Americans who are currently divorced, the actual rate of divorce among currently married individuals has declined. Peaking in the late 1970s at about 23 divorces per 1,000 married (Stevenson & Wolfers, 2007), recent estimates by Gibbs and Payne indicate the first divorce rate was 17.5 per 1,000 women in first marriages ages 18 years and older in 2010.
Additionally, there is substantial variation in the first divorce rates by educational attainment. More specifically, according to Payne, the association between educational attainment and divorce is curvilinear; those women on the two ends of the educational attainment spectrum have the lowest first divorce rates at 14.4 per 1,000 among those with less than a high school education and 14.2 per 1,000 among those with a college degree. The rate of first divorce is highest for those with only some college (23 per 1,000), adds Gibbs.
First Divorce Rates per 1,000 Women in First Marriages Aged 18 and Older by Educational Attainment, 2010
Source: American Community Survey, 2010
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Susan Brown to Gather Scholars from NCFMR 2009 Marital and Family Instability Conference During National Council on Family Relations 73rd Annual Meeting
Family Instability and Child Well-being
The session brings together participants from the NCFMR 2009 Family Instability conference at BGSU, eager to continue the dialogue in this NCFR symposium. Each paper presented by this team of scholars showcases different data to address how family instability is related to children's well-being in multiple contexts, including disadvantaged and international populations.
Presented by...
Susan Brown
Patricia Pendry
F.M. Henderson
J. Angles
E. Conlin
Heather Bachman
Rebekah Levine Coley
Jennifer Carrano
Paula Fomby
Shannon Cavanagh
Lauren Rinelli McClain
Session: #137
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Location: Salon 14
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2010 Child Trends Report Finds One in Four U.S. Children Lived in Food-Insecure Household
Food insecurity reports and briefs available from four organizations
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November 2011
The Foundation for Child Development: Changing Faces of America's Children
Young Scholars Program (YSP)
Date Due: November 2
Apply to YSP
Call for Proposals -- The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE)
73rd NCFR Annual Conference
Families and the Shifting Economy
Date: November 16-19
Link to NCFR Website
December 2011
Fellowships in Public Policy Available for 2012-2013 -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
Date Due: December 15
Link to SRCD
Call for Submissions -- International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)
Date Due: December 15
Link to IARR
Call for Abstracts -- Second International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology
Children's Voices, Well-Being and Social Justice
Date Due: December 15
Link to ISA
Call for Applications -- Population Association of America (PAA) Fellowship Opportunity
Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date Due: December 15
Link to PAA
Call for Abstracts -- Asian Population Association (APA) Conference
Date Due: December 15
Link to APA
Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report
Military Families
Date Due: December 21
Contact nancygonzalez@ncfr.org to obtain submission guidelines
January 2012
Call for Applications -- Bixby Fellowship Program
Date Due: January 15
Link to Population Council
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Featured Article
NCFMR Web Links Home About Us Resources News Quick Links 
NCFMR Team Co-Directors Dr. Susan Brown Dr. Wendy Manning Secretary Kay Carpenter Social Science Data Analyst Krista Payne Technical Writer Lesley Wadsworth Social Science Data Analyst Hsueh-Sheng Wu Project Assistant Britani Williams Graduate Research Fellows Katie Kusner Emily Padgett Graduate Research Assistants Larry Gibbs Nicole Shoenberger James Stykes National Advisory Committee Internal Advisory Committee BGSU Research Affiliates Students Visiting Scholars 
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The National Center for Family & Marriage Research, established in 2007 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to improve our understanding of how family structure and marriage affect the health and well-being of families, adults, children, and communities and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.
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This project was supported with a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation grant 5 UOI AE00000I-05. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s) and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the Federal government.
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Insecurity Among Children in the United States at the National Center for Children in Poverty
