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Reports and Briefs

Below are policy-relevant reports and briefs in the field of healthy marriage. These reports summarize: the range of ideas currently within the public dialogue; information regarding policy, initiatives and marriage data across states; and links between research and public policy.

• Administration for Children and Families Healthy Marriage Initiative, 2002-2009: An Introductory Guide (PDF - 875 KB), from the NHMRC
• Beyond Marriage Licenses: Efforts in States to Strengthen Marriage and Two-Parent Families (PDF - 677 KB), from the Center for Law and Social Policy
• Building Bridges Between Healthy Marriage, Responsible Fatherhood, and Domestic Violence Programs (PDF - 391 KB), from the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Center for Law and Social Policy
• Can Government Strengthen Marriage? (PDF - 436 KB), from the National Fatherhood Initiative, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Institute for American Values
• Healthy Marriage and Relationship Programs: A Promising Strategy for Strengthening Families (PDF - 721 KB), from the NHMRC.
• How Oklahoma Laid the Foundation for Its Marriage Initiative, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
• Marriage in the 50 States, from The Heritage Foundation
• Marriage Measures Guide to State-Level Statistics, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
• Marriage Education and Government Policy: Helping Couples Who Choose Marriage Achieve Success (PDF - 50 KB) from Scott M. Stanley and Howard J. Markman, University of Denver and Natalie H. Jenkins, PREP
• Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage:  Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., prepared for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Premarital Preparation Requirements in State Law (PDF - 147 KB), from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)
• Resources for States Planning Initiatives to Support Healthy Marriages (PDF - 82 KB), from the National Governors Association
• Spending Time Together: Time Use Estimates for Economically Disadvantaged and Nondisadvantaged Married Couples in the United States from MDRC
• State Efforts in Marriage Education Programs (PDF - 99 KB), from the National Governors Association
• State of Our Unions: Social Health of Marriage in America, 2007 (PDF - 7 MB), from The National Marriage Project, University of Virginia (formerly at Rutgers University)
• State Policies to Promote Marriage, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), The Lewin Group, Center for Law and Social Policy
• The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing: First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and All Fifty States. (PDF - 1 MB), from the Institute for American Values, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Georgia Family Council, Families Northwest
• What's Love Got to Do With It? The Role of Healthy Couple Relationships and Marriages in Promoting Child, Family and Community Wellbeing from The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues at North Carolina State University
• Why Don’t They Just Get Married: Barriers to Marriage Among the Disadvantaged (PDF - 113 KB), from The Future of the Children - Princeton University and The Brookings Institution
• Why Marriage Matters: 26 Conclusions from the Social Sciences (PDF - 54 KB), from the Institute for American Values
• Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare (PDF - 492 KB), from The Brookings Institution

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