July 25, 2018 The Topic: Cohabiting Well, but Losing Net Worth The News Story: You Must Talk About These Five Things Before Moving In Together. The New Research: Cohabitation—the Long-Term Financial Damage The News Story: You Must Talk About These Five Things Before Moving In Together “Living with a romantic partner without marriage – cohabitation […]
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 The Topic: Falling Birthrates, Plummeting Economy The News Story: U.S. Births Dip to 30-Year Low The New Research: Roots of Recession The News Story: U.S. Births Dip to 30-Year Low “The birthrate fell for nearly every group of women of reproductive age in the U.S. in 2017,” dispassionately reports NPR, “reflecting […]
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June 26, 2018 The Topic: Real Suicide Prevention The News Story: Are Suicides Really Preventable? The New Research: Preventing Suicide—Family Connections as Safety Net The News Story: Are Suicides Really Preventable? In the wake of the suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade in the past few weeks, multiple media outlets have focused on the […]
Read MoreThe Who, Where, and Why of Couple-Operated Business Ventures American Copreneurs: The Who, Where, and Why of Couple-Operated Business Ventures Nicole M. King Perhaps nowhere in literature is the idea of a home-based economy more evident than in the works of Kentucky agrarian writer Wendell Berry. In the fictional lives of the members of the […]
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June 12, 2018 The Topic: Growing Acceptance of a Dangerous Addiction The News Story: More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable The New Research: Internet Pornography—Akin to Cocaine The News Story: More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable A recent Gallup poll reveals that a whopping 43% of Americans now believe that pornography is “morally […]
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 The Topic: The Roots of Teen Suicide The News Story: Teen Suicide Is Soaring The New Research: Family Disintegration Pushes Adolescents toward Suicide in Lithuania The News Story: Teen Suicide Is Soaring The suicide rate among white children and teens rose a staggering 70% between 2010 and 2016, reports USA Today, and […]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018 The Topic: What We Don’t Talk About in Coverage of School Shootings The News Story: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me The New Research: Aggressive Teens—Permissive and Absent Parents The News Story: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me Two more students are injured and the […]
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 The Topic: Homemakers Making a Comeback? The News Story: 8 Million Mothers from 150 Countries Sign Declaration The New Research: Homemaking Mother, Mentally Happy Children The News Story: 8 Million Mothers from 150 Countries Sign Declaration As the world gears up for “International Women’s Day”—March 8—another, much lesser known group, is […]
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“This holiday season,” opens a recent story from Bloomberg, “many Americans may need a flow chart to figure how they’re all related.” In an attempt to “quantify” such trends, American researchers recently turned their focus to just how many stepfamilies exist in this country. They found that, among adults over 55 years of age, a full third have a stepchild.
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Following a U.S. trend, an upscale U.K.-based travel firm has launched “getaway weekends” for women going through a divorce.
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