The Child Welfare Information Gateway, through the Administration for Children and Families’ Children’s Bureau, authored these tip sheets to provide parenting skills, such as bonding, attachment, dealing with temper tantrums, raising…

Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has been shown to produce both economic and social benefits. This paper by MDRC examines two different approaches to strengthen fathers' involvement and their family relationships, fatherhood…

This project explored how low-income couples make decisions. Specifically, the project explored, through observational methods, the mechanisms and factors which influence the couple as a unit (as well as the individual partners in low-income…

The Building Strong Families (BSF) project was launched in 2002 to test voluntary interventions aimed at strengthening the families of unmarried couples with children. From Mathematica Policy Research, this report documents the design and…

This report is a technical supplement to the impact report for the Building Strong Families (BSF) evaluation. From Mathematica Policy Research, authors provide additional detail about the research design, analytic methods, and variable…

This report, from Mathematica Policy Research, provides impacts of the Building Strong Families (BSF) program on couples about 15 months after they applied for the program. The BSF program is sponsored by the Administration for Children and…

This research article uses data from the Fragile Families Study to analyze intergenerational family relationships and stability among married and unmarried parents within five years of a child’s birth. Authors find that positive relationships…

This study evaluates the initial implementation of the Couples Employment (CE) project in Baltimore, Maryland, a voluntary intervention to simultaneously address employment, financial literacy, and relationship issues, to…

This report presents early implementation and operational lessons from the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation. Funded by the Administration for Children and Families, SHM uses a rigorous research design to test the effectiveness of a…

The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative is a focused strategy to address the unique cultural, linguistic, demographic, and socioeconomic needs of a growing population of Hispanic children and families in the United States.

The…