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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... NCFMR Counting Couples, Counting Families 2011 Research Conference Attracts National Audience The NCFMR convened their annual
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Conference attendees view research posters during poster session.
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research conference on July 19 and 20 in Washington, DC with more than 115 nationally-recognized scholars, researchers, data providers, and policy experts in attendance. The group gathered for a two-day conference to discuss cutting-edge topics in family measurement. Building on the foundation established by the previous Counting Couples conferences, presenters discussed the availability and quality of existing family measures in federal data and assessed how these measures might be modified or expanded in future data collection efforts.
Cabrera and Fagan Receive NCFMR External Grants Award Fathers and Fathering The NCFMR recently funded the research proposal of Natasha J. Cabrera, University of Maryland, and Jay Fagan, Temple University, titled Parenting and Coparenting. This is the fifth Fathers and Fathering external grant awarded this year. The proposals support innovative research that contributes to theoretical, conceptual, or methodological developments about fathers and fathering. The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website. Just Released Data Resources Data Points Tables and figures integrating family statistics from leading published studies. Measures Snapshots on Incarceration We recently added bibliographies to our detailed summaries of incarceration measures available in large national data sets. Family Profiles Original reports summarizing the latest statistics on U.S. Families.
Conference Posters Posters written and designed by NCFMR staff, faculty, affiliates, and students for conferences, symposia, and annual meetings. Counting Couples, Counting Families 2011 Research Conference To view a poster, click on the teal highlighted name. - Sarah Burgoyne, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant
- Casey Copen, National Center for Health Statistics
- Rachel H. Farr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Paula Fomby and Joshue Goode, University of Colorado Denver
- Gary J. Gates and Michael D. Steinberger, University of California, Los Angeles
- Larry Gibbs, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant
- Daphne Hernandez, Pennsylvania State University
- Kara Joyner, Grace Kao, and Kelly Balistreri, Bowling Green State University
- Krista K. Payne, NCFMR Social Science Data Analyst
- Bart Stykes, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant
- Nicholas Zill, Consulting Psychologist, Columbia University
NCFMR in the News Co-Director Brown Finds Living Apart for Marrieds Over 50 is Likely to Increase AARP Bulletin NCFMR Research Finds Many Seniors are Single and Available SmartMoney |
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Payne Research Finds Women Leaving the Parental Home More Likely to "Boomerang" than Men
Leaving the parental home is an important marker of adulthood. Research generated by NCFMR Social Science Data Analyst Krista K. Payne finds similar percentages of young men and young women (47% and 46%, respectively) leave the parental home and do not return by age 24. While women are more likely to" boomerang" (move out and return) (46% vs. 41%), men are more likely to have not yet moved out (12% vs. 9%). For more information on residential transitions during young adulthood (ages 18-24), view the latest NCFMR Family Profile, On the Road to Adulthood: Leaving the Parental Home.
Residential Transitions in Young Adulthood (18-24) by Gender
Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), rounds 7-19: 2003-2009 (weighted). U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, NCFMR analyses of valid cases.
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August 2011
NCFMR Pilot Data Conference
Married and Cohabiting Couples
Date: August 3-4
View Awardees
Grants Available from Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood
Date Due: August 28
Link to ACF Funding Opportunity Announcements
September 2011
Call for Proposed Supplemental Modules
2012 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)
Date Due: September 15
For details, contact:
http://www.nhats.org/scripts/moduleCall.htm
Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report
Winter 2011: LGBT Families
Date Due: September 21
Contact the editor to obtain submission guidelines nancygonzalez@ncfr.org
October 2011
Call for Manuscripts -- Special Family Science Review Issue
Teaching about Families: Current Reflections on Our Journeys in Family Science Educators
Date Due: October 1
For more information, visit: http://www.ncfr.org/news/call-manuscripts-special-family-science-review-issue
Call for Submissions -- Family Relations
Multi-Ethnicity and Multi-Ethnic Families
Date Due: October 1
Link to the NCFR Submit to FR webpage
Call for Papers -- Eastern Sociological Society
Storied Lives: Culture, Structure, and Narrative
Date Due: October 15
Link to Eastern Sociological Society
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NCFMR Web Links Home About Us Resources News Quick Links 
NCFMR Team Co-Directors Dr. Susan Brown Dr. Wendy Manning Secretary Kay Carpenter Project Assistants Britani Williams Social Science Data Analyst Krista Payne Technical Writer Lesley Wadsworth Social Science Data Analyst Hsueh-Sheng Wu Graduate Research Assistants Sarah Burgoyne Jessica Cohen Larry Gibbs 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-04. 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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