Written by Mike McManus   Although teen birth rates have fallen by a third over a decade, one in three U.S. teenage girls still get pregnant.  And teenagers account for half of all first out-of-wedlock births. Few of those girls will ever marry, and only 30 percent of those who do are in their first […]

Written by Lori Lowe   Although I’ve been blogging about research-based marriage tips for nearly three years, I’ve never written about my personal experience as a child of divorce. When I was asked to write about it, I hesitated, because I don’t want to focus on a negative past or hurt my parents. But I […]

Written by Beverly Willett   People continue their outrage over the fact that Casey Anthony is a free woman.  I wonder, though, if those screaming injustice know that for decades millions of parents have perhaps been contributing to the death of their own children.  And, if they did, whether they’d  shout as loudly, or instead […]

Written by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse   The federal government has decided that it is too expensive to track marriage and divorce data; instead, it has turned its attention to tracking data about sexual activity, behavior, attraction, and identity of teens and adults. The marriage reports used to be detailed accounts (age of bride and […]