Articles

Making a Love Connection – The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Making a Love Connection documents the powerful connection between still-high rates of teen pregnancy and the public policy focus on increasing the proportion of children who grow up in healthy, married families.   For more information, please visit  http://www.dibbleinstitute.org/making_a_love_connection.htm. 

Predictors of Success and Failure in Marriage – Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Ph.D.
Americans value marriage and seek it as a personal life goal. At the same time, many are finding it harder to achieve this goal. People today are more likely to live together before marriage, to postpone marriage until older ages, to divorce more and to remarry less, and never to marry at all. Why are so many Americans enchanted with the idea of marriage but increasingly disenchanted with being married? Social science research can help answer this question. For the full article, click here.

The Success Story – Iowa State Extension Study
The Dibble Institute Resource, Connections, was recently evaluated by the Iowa State Extension.  Click here for more information.  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/families/success/2006/cooper0631.html

The Secret Love Lives of Teenage Boys – Time Magazine
Social Scientists who study young love are discovering that contrary to popular belief, male adolescents don’t just want to have fun.  For the full article, click here.