2011 Archive

Presentations and posters addressing specific topics related to family structure and well-being given by NCFMR staff, faculty affiliates, and students during symposia, conferences, workshops, and annual meetings.

National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), Counting Couples, Counting Families 2011 Research Conference

• Sarah Burgoyne, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant
  • Couple Relationship Quality by Union Type
• Casey Copen, National Center for Health Statistics
  • Marriage and Cohabitation in the United States: Using Data from the National Survey of Family Growth
• Cassandra Dorius, University of Michigan
  • Multipartnered Fertility at Midlife
• Rachel H. Farr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Observations of Coparenting among Adoptive Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Couples
• Paula Fomby and Joshua Goode, University of Colorado Denver
  • Family Change Trajectories and Children's School Readiness in the United Kingdom
• Gary J. Gates and Michael D. Steinberger, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Same-sex Unmarried Partner Couples in the American Community Survey: The role of misreporting, miscoding, and misallocation
• Larry Gibbs, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant
  • Divorce: The Nine Year Itch
• Daphne Hernandez, Pennsylvania State University
  • The Role of Family Structure Transitions on Young Adults' BMI: The Importance of Counting Cohabitation
• Kara Joyner, Grace Kao, and Kelly Balistreri, Bowling Green State University
  • Current Sexual and Romantic Involvement among Young Adults by Race/Ethnicity and Gender
• Krista K. Payne, NCFMR Social Science Data Analyst
  • Young Adult Residential Transitions by Highest Degree Earned
• J. Bart Stykes, NCFMR Graduate Research Assistant
  • Age at First Birth by Educational Attainment and Gender
• Nicholas Zill, Consulting Psychologist, Columbia University
  • How Many Teens Grow Up In Stable Married Families?
     

Administration for Children & Families (ACF) Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference

• Sarah Halpern-Meekin, NCFMR Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Building us up stronger: Unmarried parents' experiences in a relationship and marriage education program
    
    

 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI)

• Jeffrey Dew, Utah State University, and Jing Jian Xiao, The University of Rhode Island, External Grantees
  • The recession, race and ethnicity, and financial behaviors
    
    

American Society of Criminology (ASC), Breaking the Mold: Innovations and Bold Ventures in Criminology

• Ryan D. King, University at Albany, NCFMR External Grantee
  • Paternal Incarceration and Childhood Wellbeing: Spurious or Causal Association
    
    

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Presidential Inauguration Student Research Symposium

Julia Arroyo, NCFMR Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Median Age at First Marriage, by Sex: 1980 - 2011
  
  

National Council on Family Relations, Families and the Shifting Economy

• Heather Bachman, University of Pittsburgh
  • Low Income Mothers' Patterns of Partnership Instability and Adolescents' Behavioral and Emotional Well-Being
• Melissa A. Barnett, University of Arizona, External Grantee
  • Social support as a resource for Mexican-American mothers of toddlers
    • Paper presented (PDF unavailable)
  • Contextual instability and the parenting of Mexican-American mothers with toddlers
    • Paper presented (PDF unavailable)
• Susan Brown, NCFMR Co-Director and BGSU Sociology Professor
  • Grant Writing 101 Seminar: Writing a Fundable Center Grant
• Paula Fomby, University of Colorado Denver, External Grantee
  • Family Instability and School Readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom
• Patricia Pendry, Washington State University, External Grantee
  • Parents’ Use of Everyday Conflict Tactics in the Presence of Children: Predictors and Implications for Child Behavior
• Lauren Rinelli McClain, Savannah State University, Associate Professor
  • Daddy's Got a New "Friend". Does a Partner Influence Father Involvement with Nonresident Children?
     

Population Association of America (PAA) Conference

• Jessica A. Cohen, NCFMR Graduate Research Fellow
  • Childbearing After First Marriage Dissolution: Does Union Status Matter?

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