Monday, June 29, 2015

The M.Guy Tweet, Week of June 21, 2015

1. Husbands And Wives: Who Works, Who Doesn't?, National Public Radio
By the turn of the century, the standard had reversed: In nearly two-thirds of. . . marriages, both people worked full time. But in the past 15 years, not much has changed.

2. Men, Women Differ On Morals of Sex, Relationships, Gallup 
Americans are finding more behaviors or social issues "morally acceptable" than they have in the past, but men and women still differ on several issues, notably those related to sex and relationships. 

3. More Than Money: How To Make A Marriage Work When She’s The Primary Breadwinner, The Washington Post
Although a growing share of married mothers earn the majority of income for their families—slightly less than one-quarter of married families with children, according to the American Community Survey, it’s clear that some men in homes with female breadwinners find this new reality hard.

4. Multiracial Marriages Are Dispersing Across The Country, Brookings
To be sure the greatest prevalence of multiracial marriages are in melting-pot states such as Hawaii, where three in 10 marriages are multiracial, as well as Alaska and Oklahoma, where the share is nearly two in 10.

5. The Institution of Marriage: Still Going Strong, National Journal
About two-thirds of younger participants felt that marriage was still relevant and led to a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life. But older participants were much more positive, with three of every four older participants saying that marriage still had an important place in society.

6. How Marriage Makes Men Better Fathers, Family Studies
Living apart from his first child, he continued, “was painful because a father’s love is so often expressed through providing and protecting. And it’s difficult to provide and protect without presence.”

7. 144 Years Of Marriage And Divorce In The United States, In One Chart, The Washington Post
A surge in Baby Boomers in the 1950s and 1960s greatly increased the population; since the Boomers were almost all too young to marry, the per capita marriage rate declined. Once the Boomers got old enough to tie the knot, marriage rates rose back to pre-WWII levels.

For more, see here.

Monday, June 15, 2015

The M.Guy Tweet, Week of June 7, 2015

1. Folkways And Family In America, New York Times
[B]oth “red” and “blue” America offer paths to family stability, with the latter depending more on delayed marriage and childbearing (and, again, somewhat higher abortion rates) and the former more on “deep normative and religious commitments to marriage.”

2. Red State Families: Better Than We Knew, Family Studies
Thus, one reason the bluest states and reddest states deliver more family stability to their adolescents is that they share relatively low levels of nonmarital childbearing.

3. 13 Surprisings Facts About Marriage Today, MSN
Several studies show that most couples wait, on average, just under three years from the time they started dating to get married. And the average engagement? 14 months.

4. Why Remarrying Isn’t What It Used To Be, TIME
In 1990, 50 out of every 1,000 previously-married men and women got married again. In 2013, it was 28, a 40% drop.

5. Marriage Isn't The Only Relationship That's In Trouble For 20-Somethings, Deseret News National
In short, millennials are shaping up not only to be the unmarried generation, but a generation of singles.

6. Regan: Marriage Is Going Out Of Style, And That Could Hurt, USA Today
In 2012, 45% of 18- to 30-year-olds lived with older family members, up from 39% in 1990 and 35% in 1980.

7. Multiracial in America, Pew Research Center
More than 40 years ago, only one of every 100 babies younger than 1 year old and living with two parents was multiracial. By 2013, it was one-in-ten.

For more, see here.

Monday, June 1, 2015

The M.Guy Tweet, Week of May 24, 2015

1. Sex Ed Works Better When It Addresses Power In Relationships, National Public Radio
Knowing how to communicate and negotiate with sexual partners, and knowing how to distinguish between healthy and abusive sexual relationships, are as important as knowing how to put on a condom, DiClemente says.

2. Families Are The Real Issue For Opportunity, Not Inequality, Brookings Institution
A much stronger--indeed one of the strongest--correlate of upward mobility is family structure.

3. Divorce Before vs. After Age 50, Bowling Green State University
59% of of individuals who divorce after age 50 are "Careerists." A divorce careerist is an individual who experienced divorce both prior to and following age 50.

4. The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time, TIME
Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson. . . Their groundbreaking numbers-heavy studies of sex made them the punch line of a million jokes, but ultimately contributed to the demystification of one of life’s most miraculous and complex subjects.

5. The Secret Of Happiness Revealed By Harvard Study, Forbes
The 75 year longitudinal Grant Study led by George Vaillant had two main findings: 1) Happiness is love. 2) If alcoholism is not the root of all evil, it is closely correlated with it.

6. What The “Mounting Evidence” On Working Moms Really Shows, Family Studies
[A]s the below figures illustrate, part-time work is the ideal for the majority of married mothers and a substantial minority of single mothers, though working full-time is the most common actual situation for both groups.

7. NY Times: Importance Of Mothers And Fathers An ‘Absurdity’, Breitbart
In its euphoria over the victory of gay marriage in Ireland, the New York Times editers abandoned all pretenses of objectivity and, in an apparently unguarded moment, declared biological motherhood and fatherhood to be absurd.

For more, see here.