In May 2007 the Urban Institute sponsored Public and Private Roles in the Workplace: What are the Next Steps in Supporting Working Families?, a roundtable involving business leaders, practitioners, national policy experts, researchers, and advocates. Papers from the roundtable are available online.

Cohabitation is not replacing marriage but is increasingly a first step toward marriage for young adults, say a group of sociologists from Bowling Green State University. The researchers say it is important to study adolescents’ expectations for cohabitation as well as marriage. (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Citation: Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore, & Peggy C. Giordano (2007) . The changing institution of marriage: Adolescents’ expectations to cohabit and to marry. Journal of Marriage and Family 69(3): 559–575. (Available online to the Penn State community, and in print in the PRI Library.)

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Vietnam’s intensely family-oriented society is going through a “quiet” sexual revolution as young people move in together, have more premarital sex, and talk about love and relationships (Reuters).

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 compiles official statistics on the nation’s young people. Among the highlights: fewer children are living in married two-parent families and fewer teens are having sex.

A new Pew Research Center Survey finds that fewer Americans view children as key to successful marriage. Read the AP story at CNN.com or download the full report from the Pew Research Center.

A Norwegian study found that first-born children had higher IQs, and attributed the gap to parental treatment rather than genetics (Baltimore Sun).

The research was published in the June issue of Science.

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Married and Unmarried Births to Men, a new ASPE Research Brief, uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to examine patterns of fatherhood.

Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing, by PRI associates Paul Amato, Alan Booth, David Johnson, and Stacy Rogers, leades the Best Sellers in Social Science, September 2006-present, compiled by YBP Library Services and published in Library Journal.

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Cohabitation and Child Poverty in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: 1995-2006 (PDF) by Wendy Manning, Heidi Lyons, and Meredith Porter (Bowling Green Center for Family and Demographic Research working paper 2007-08)

Mattering and Wives’ Perceived Fairness of the Division of Household Labor (PDF) by Sayaka Kawamura and Susan L. Brown (Bowling Green Center for Family and Demographic Research working paper 2007-06)

Psychological Implications of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Midlife by Tetyana Pudrovska (University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology Working Paper #2007-02)