Marriage & Family
Understanding family relationships: families are the most fundamental unit of society and can be a source of strength, support, and personal fulfillment. Explore current research on the unique qualities of modern families, including marital and parent-child relationships. Learn how to navigate challenges and promote resilience within family relationships.
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Beyond the Pew: The Devotion-to-Diapers Link
The well-known commandment from Genesis to “multiply and replenish the earth” is interpreted by Christians as a mandate to procreate. In the 1960’s, studies comparing childbearing among Catholics, Jews, and Protestants found that Catholics had the highest childbearing rates, followed by Protestants, and Jews. However, later studies observed a sharp decline in Catholic childbearing rates,…
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Marital Status, Mortality Risk, and Gender: Who Will Live the Longest?
In the United States, there is a growing trend among young adults to avoid marriage altogether. Currently, 25% of people aged 40 have never married.[i] The Institute for Family Studies predicts that “one-third of men and women who turn 45 in 2050 (those who are about 18 or 19 today) will not have married”.[ii] There…
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Can AI Predict Relationship Quality?
Our relationships shape the trajectory of our lives, and the quality of relationships directly impact our sense of happiness and well-being. Relationships affect not only individual and family well-being but also mental and physical health and job performance. A romantic relationship can be the most all-encompassing and, ideally, will last a lifetime. What characteristics of…
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Protecting College Students from Sexual Assault
Many freshman college students consider experimenting with alcohol as a rite of passage. Campus drinking culture, especially in the United States, is a known problem. One survey revealed that almost half of all college students aged 18-22 drank alcohol, and almost 30% had engaged in binge drinking over the previous month.[i] This campus culture of…
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Parents, Schools, and Achievement: The Role of Socioeconomic Strata
There exists a growing body of research highlighting the important role that parents play in helping their children succeed in school. School involvement can take many forms and can provide long-term benefits of improved academic achievement and even better socioemotional development of children. Prior research has noted the different levels of parental involvement based on…
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Does Selfishness Pay? Income, Fertility, and Prosociality
Prosocial attitudes may lead to prosocial behavior, including altruism, forging positive relationships with others, even preserving the environment for future generations. Are prosocial people more likely to have business success and higher incomes? One could propose that “by maximizing their own outcomes, selfish individuals should be better off in the long run than prosocials who…