Category: Marriage/Family

Nearly 7 million men in the prime of life — over a tenth of the 25-to-54 age group — are neither...

My research on how families shape outcomes has not yet focused on aging, but in my personal life, aging is an everyday reality. Without reading Ofstedal’s research, I would have guessed that parents’ health status would be the key predictor of whether their children lived far away, nearby, or with their elderly parents. Overall, the biggest change Ofstedal and her team observed during the study period as parents aged is that the probability of distant residence declined (from 72% to 64%).

Judges, lawyers, county workers and providers, child welfare providers need to help those separated parents struggling to coparent in a collegial manner, not enable or even support vindictiveness. The standard expectation in any separated family should be that mothers and fathers work together to ensure that their children have ready access to their mother, father and both of their extended families.

The wedding ring is a symbol – beautiful and expensive – but a symbol. The most important thing is the relationship itself.

Trey and Lea Morgan have been involved in marriage ministry and coaching for over 30 years and are co-hosts of the Stronger Marriage with Trey and Lea Morgan podcast.

Higher education institutions in Ohio are barred from taking a stance on marriage after Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law at the end of March deeming belief in the legal and religious union as “controversial.”