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 […]

Written by Lori Lowe   My last post shared benefits to the adults who choose to stay married. Even more plentiful are studies showing how children are positively affected—emotionally, sexually, mentally, and physically—when their parents are married as opposed to single or cohabiting. Research shows* that in the U.S. cohabitors resemble singles more than they […]

Written by Beverly Willett   I got an e-mail the other day about upcoming summer concerts.  Crosby Stills & Nash is coming to town in August.  Last year marked the 40th anniversary of their hit single — “Teach Your Children.”  It was also the 40th anniversary of the inception of our country’s no-fault divorce experiment. […]

Written by Linda Chavez   For the first time in history, less than half of Americans now live in married-couple households. The new finding by the Census Bureau reflects the most profound change in the nature of American society ever to have occurred, yet practically no one talks about it. Only 48 percent of American […]

Written by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse   The former White Stripes rocker, Jack White, and his wife, Karen Elson, a model for Louie Vuitton and vintage clothing store owner, threw a big party in Nashville on June 10 to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary and the announcement of their divorce. Jack is known for rather […]

Written by Lori Lowe   Recently, I wrote about how being a child of divorce is a risk factor for early death, as reported in the eye-opening book, The Longevity Project. As a child of divorce myself, I was dismayed to learn that children whose parents divorced during childhood died an average of five years […]