The National Marriage Project, U.Va.

The Date Night Opportunity

The Date Night Opportunity: What Does Couple Time Tell Us About the Potential Value of Date Nights?

 
The Date Night Opportunity report seeks to answer three important questions about the potential value of date nights for contemporary couples: 1) How might date nights improve the quality of relationships for couples? 2) Is one-on-one couple time associated with higher-quality relationships and lower divorce rates among couples? 3) Are particular types of couples--e.g., couples with children, secular couples, less-committed couples--more likely to benefit from regular date nights? For answers to these questions, see the full report.

2011 State of Our Unions

When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable

 
When Baby Makes Three, the 2011 State of Our Unions report from the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, relies on data from three nationally representative surveys--including the new Survey of Marital Generosity--to answer four important questions about contemporary family life:

1) Is it emotionally easier to parent alone in a world in which a good marriage seems increasingly out of reach?
2) Do married parents report more meaningful lives than their childless peers?
3) Is parenthood itself an obstacle to a good marriage?
4) What are the social, cultural, and relational sources of marital success among today's parents?

The Sustainable Demographic Dividend: What Do Marriage and Fertility Have To Do With the Economy?

 
The Sustainable Demographic Dividend: What Do Marriage & Fertility Have To Do With the Economy?, a new report from the Social Trends Institute, focuses on the key roles marriage and fertility play in sustaining long-term economic growth, the viability of the welfare state, the size and quality of the workforce, and the health of large sectors of the modern economy. Moreover, the report shines a spotlight on the health of marriage and family in countries around the world, tracking global trends in fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, single parenthood, and child malnutrition. The report also includes new projections for U.S. birth rates and the fertility ideals of Americans in the wake of the Great Recession.

The report is co-sponsored by the National Marriage Project, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, Universidad de los Andes (Chile), University of Asia and the Pacific (Philippines), Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Spain), Universidad de la Sabana (Colombia), and Universidad de Piura (Peru).

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On February 3, 2012, the National Marriage Project hosted Ross Douthat of The New York Times in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at UVA. His presentation was entitled, The God Within: Therapeutic Religion and the Dissolution of the Family.

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