Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood

This webpage provides resources to support TANF programs in supporting positive outcomes for families by providing strategies to align and partner with Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) programs.
Young daughter with her mother, father and dog, enjoying together in park.
Research-To-Practice Brief

This research brief outlines the "Building Strong Families" project, which aims at helping new, unmarried parents gain the skills necessary to build healthy marriages. The project was created with expected outcomes to enhance the wellbeing of…

Report

The proportion of married African-American couples has declined over the past years. This report seeks to identify the potential consequences to African-American families due to these low marriage rates and compare the consequences of marriage to…

Research-To-Practice Brief

Authored by Marcia Carlson of Columbia University, Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, Paula England of Stanford University, and Barbara Devaney of Mathematica Policy Research. This brief, the third in a series from the Building Strong…

Report

This resource provides information to stakeholders running fatherhood programs with tools related to fatherhood, including program development and funding and the Responsible Fatherhood Management Information System.

Report

The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (CHMI) is a key component of the…

Report

This report describes a meeting that took place in Charleston, WV, on November 3, 2004, sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The meeting was a follow-up to a a Healthy Marriage Forum that took place in Charleston, WV,…