Useful Links and Resources

Statistics: Responsible Fatherhood

1. Institute for Research on Poverty
2. Divorce and Fatherhood Statistics
3. Fatherless Homes Statistics
4. National Fatherhood Initiative
5. Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood

Curricula: Responsible Fatherhood

1. Siempre Papa
2. 24/7 Dad
3. InsideOut Dad
4. Doctor Dad

Other Related Materials: Responsible Fatherhood

1. Pop's Culture: A National Survey of Dads’ Attitudes on Fathering
2. Father Structure, Father Closeness and Delinquency, National Fatherhood Initiative
3. DADS: The developing a Daddy Survey and the Collaborative Work of the DADS WorkingGroup
4. Fatherhood Research in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
5. Transition to Fatherhood, Cornell University,
6. What About the Dads? Child Welfare Agencies Efforts to Identify, Locate, and Involve Nonresidential Fathers, prepared by the Urban Institute
7. Charting Parenthood: A Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America, produced by Child Trends, Tamara Halle, PhD.,
8. Do Men Mother? Sociologist Andrea Doucet interviewed by John Hoffman
9. Single Women Who Choose Motherhood, Today Show
10. The Importance of the Father, By Family Zone Staff Islamonline
11. EXPERIMENTS IN LIVING: THE FATHERLESS FAMILY, The Institute for the study of civil society, Rebbecca o’Neill (UK)
12. Where is Technological Reproduction Taking Us? By Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
13. Who’s Your Daddy? By W. Bradford Wilcox, the Weekly Standard,
14. American Values,
15. The Future of Marriage, by David Blankenhorn
16. Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Program, by David Blankenhorn
17. The National Center for Fathering,
18. Why Children Need Fathers, Five Critical Needs, George Tryfiates

Statistics: Healthy Parental Relationships

1. About.com
2. Administration for Children and Families
3. Annie E. Casey Foundation,
4. National Center for Health Statistics
5. National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
6. National Center for Children in Poverty
7. Ohio Marriage Resource Center
8. The Brookings Institution

Curricula: Healthy Parental Relationships

1. 10 Great Dates (Marriage Alive)
2. African American Marriage Enrichment Program
3. Art of Loving Well: A Character Education
4. Essential Disciplines
5. How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk
6. Love’s Cradle
7. Loving Couples Loving Children
8. Love and Respect
9. Marriage Enrichment
10. Mastering the Magic of Love
11. Marriage LINKS
12. PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills)
13. PAIRS for PEERS
14. PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program)
15. PREPARE/ENRICH
16. Relationship Enhancement
17. Smart Steps for Stepfamilies

Other Related Materials: Healthy Parental Relationships

1. Ohio State University Extension
2. What We Know About Unmarried Parents: Implications for Building Strong Families Programs, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., January 2005, Number 3,
3. Marriage and Child Wellbeing, the Future of Children, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall 2005
4. Increasing Marriage Will Dramatically Reduce Child Povery by Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Phd., Patrick F. Hagan, and Lauren R. Noyes,
5. Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the United States, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
6. The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services,
7. The African American Healthy Marriage Initiative, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services,
8. Healthy Marriage Initiative, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services,
9. "Marriage is for White People" by Joy Jones, Washington Post,
10. "Supporting Healthy Marriage and Strengthening Relationships of Unwed Parents: Technical Assistance Available"
11. Sacred Vows, Public Purposes: Religion, The Marriage Movement and Marriage Policy
12. "Unnatural Selection" by Leslie Bennetts, Tango Magazine
13. The Marriage Calculator: Financial Consequences of Marriage Decisions, ACF U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services,
14. Pornography Threatens a Marriage, ABC News
15. "Some Interesting Marriage Facts" by Heather Long
16. "Facts About Marital Distress and Divorce" by Scott M. Stanley & Howard J. Markman, University of Denver and PREP, Inc.

Statistics: Informed Waiting (Abstinence and Committed Relationships)

1. Institute for Research on Poverty
2. The Heritage Foundation
3. HPV and Men - CDC Fact
4. National Maternal & Child Health Clearinghouse; State Resources
5. Teen-Aid Inc.
6. Ohio State Health Department

Curricula: Informed Waiting (Abstinence and Committed Relationships)

1. Choosing the Best Journey
2. Facing Reality
3. Facts and Reasons
4. How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk (P.I.C.K. Program)
5. Sexuality, Commitment & Family
6. The Game Plan
7. Your Sexual Exposure
8. Wait Training

Other Related Materials: Informed Waiting (Abstinence and Committed Relationships)

1. Abstinence: A Choice for Some, A Reality for Others
2. Abstinence Clearinghouse
3. Abstinence Educator’s Network, Inc.
4. Abstinence is Healthy Goal for Teenagers but Research Critiques Abstinence-Only Educational Policies
5. Another Hit at Abstinence
6. American Values
7. Behaviors May Indicate Risk of Adolescent Depression
8. Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence
9. Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V, Section 510
10. Fact Sheet: Section 510 State Abstinence Education Program
11. Family Health International
12. Government Urged to End Abstinence-Only Education
13. Just Say Yes
14. New Siecus Report Attacking Abstinence Programs Gives Inaccurate Information About Curricula Content
15. Self-esteem, Emotional Distress and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescent Females: Inter-relationships and Temporal Effects
16. The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners among Women: A Book of Charts
17. Youth Support Abstinence as Sex Education, The Washington Post