Explore findings from research and practice about the impact of the marital relationship on parenting and child outcomes and program implications for working with unmarried parents who are considering marriage as an option. Preliminary findings are presented from the Family Formation Project, a state and federally funded demonstration project in Minnesota with urban, unmarried, new parent couples who aspire to form healthy marriages and stable families.
View the statellite broadcast recordings of the two sessions.
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Supporting Unmarried New Parent Couples in Forming Healthy Marriages and Stable Families
Original broadcast date: December 2, 2005
Presented by William D. Allen, Ph.D, L.M.F.T., Healing Bonds, Minneapolis, MN and William Doherty, Ph.D., Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota
Healthy Couples, Healthy Kids: Programmatic Approaches to Strengthening Couple Relationships for Better Child Outcomes
Original Broadcast date: December 9, 2005
Presented by Francesca Adler-Baeder, Ph.D., CFLE, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University and Karen Shirer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University
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