The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia

In this report, we show that Virginia children with involved and present fathers do markedly better than their peers. More strikingly, we find that dads seem to matter differently for boys and girls.

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What Does Couple Time Tell Us About the Potential Value of Date Nights?


 

In the second edition of The Date Night Opportunity, we examined the links between one-on-one couple time and relationship quality with data from a new survey, “The State of Our Unions Survey,” of 2,000 married, heterosexual men and women aged 18-55 in the United States.

   
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Is Marrying Later Always Better?
New Report Says No.

“State of Our Unions 2022” shows little evidence that those marrying over the age of 25 have stronger marriages than those marrying in their early 20s.

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Younger Americans are more likely to push emotional and sexual boundaries online...

...and those who do so have worse relationships, according to iFidelity: The State of Our Unions 2019.

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What Do Premarital Experiences Have to Do with Marital Quality Among Today’s Young Adults?

The relationship sequence—sex, cohabitation, and sometimes children preceding marriage—has become the norm in our society. But it raises some interesting questions. In part because what people do before marriage appears to matter. Specifically, how they conduct their romantic lives before they tie the knot.

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