One Plus One e-bulletin, No 23, November 2009
     
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This free monthly bulletin will keep you up-to-date with our projects and provides a listing of the most recent research and policy news concerning families and relationships.

 
 

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Contents:
News from One Plus One
Research and policy news
About One Plus One
 
   
     
  News from One Plus One  
     
 

thecoupleconnection.net has been going from strength to strength. Over 25,000 people visited the site so far, over 8,000 this month. 60% of the registered users have children, and 5% were expecting at the time of their registration. Approximately 20% of users have been divorced, and 11% separated. 50% of registered users are married, 25% cohabiting, 18% are closely involved, but not living with their partner, and 5% are dating. Currently almost 30% of our users are men.

 
 
The Talk it Out section reflects the diversity of the growing community and is proving to be a hugely popular area of the site. Over the next few months we will be developing the 'Personal' and 'Couple Spaces' and adding new features including status updates & picture uploads. Keep checking the site regularly to see the new features. By signing up as a registered user you can be kept up-to-date through the site's regular newsletter detailing new features & articles.
 
  Mary Wood, Chief Executive of Foundations UK, presented a seminar to staff and guests at One Plus One on Chronic and dysfunctional eating and its effect on the family. The presence of a child or a parent with an eating disorder can affect the entire family and parents are faced with many challenges. The seminar took a look at what chaotic eating is, the potential effects on family life, and how families and practitioners can work together in finding solutions. To view the slides from Mary's presentation click here.
 
 
 
  One Plus One has been awarded a contract from the Parenting Fund along with Family Action, Marriage Care, Relate and the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships to develop and adapt resources to support Parenting Fund projects working with couples and family relationships. The contract has been made with special reference to developing tools for the measurement of relationship satisfaction, quality and distress.  
     
Penny Mansfield, Director of One Plus One has been asked to join the Preparing for Birth and Beyond Expert Reference Group - part of the government's strategy for reducing health inequalities and improving the life chances of the most disadvantaged families.
     
  Research and policy news  
     
  We regularly monitor and select information from Government departments, research centres, publishers, and relationship and family organisations. Below you will find a listing of news from the last month. Each headline provides a link to the original news release. A regularly updated news board can be found in iCOR - the online Information Centre on Relationships.  
     
  Policy and Practice  
 
ContactPoint - the online directory for practitioners working with children - first stage of delivery launched
FPA launch Valentine's contraception campaign
Action for Children warns of neglect of 6-13 year-olds
National Private Fostering Awareness Week (19-25 January)
Introduction of National Family Week (25-31 May)
Ed Balls announces new package of support for children
£46 million boost for children, young people and families
New Government taskforce tackles child poverty
The seven-steps of divorce - new book from Relate
Government's 'Relationships Summit' receives widespread support
Lack of family time and regular school testing is 'robbing girls of childhood'
Department for Children, Schools and Families place key focus on father-child relationships
Ed Balls shares vision for 21st century children's services - The Children's Plan: One Year On
New Government legislation aims to improve lives of children and families
Ed Balls vows to improve child protection services
 
     
  Research and Statistics  
 
General Household Survey 2007 published

New report from Equality and Human Rights Commission finds rise in number of inter-ethnic relationships in Britain
DCSF publishes Families in Britain: An Evidence Paper
Parent-child relationships impact on ability to relate to others finds new research
Australian women earn less but do more finds AIFS
'Empty nest' and marital satisfaction
 
     
  Journal Articles  
 
 

Desistance from delinquency: the marriage effect revisited and extended by Beaver, KM., Wright, JP., DeLisi, M. & Vaughn, MG. Social Science Research, Volume 37, Number 3 pp736-752. To view the tables of contents click here.

Interrelations and moderators of longitudinal links between marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms among couples estabilished relationships by Kouros, CD., Papp, LM. & Cummings, EM. Journal of Family Psychology, Volume 22, Number 5 pp667-677. To view the tables of contents click here.

What about the kids? Parenting and child adjustment in the context of couple therapy by Gattis, KS., Simpron, LE. & Christensen, A. Journal of Family Psychology, Volume 22, Number 6 pp833-842. To view the tables of contents click here.

No trend in the intergenerational transmission of divorce by Li, JC. & Wu, LL. Demography, Volume 44, Number 4 pp875-883. To view the tables of contents click here.

Cohabitation and children's living arrangements: New estimates from the United States by Kennedy, S. Bumpass, L. Demographic Research, Volume 19 pp1663-1692. To view the tables of contents click here.

Marital therapy, retreats, and books: The who, what, when and why of relationship help-seeking by Doss, BD., Rhoades, GK., Stanley, SM.& Markman, HJ. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 35, Number 1 pp18-29. To view the tables of contents click here.
 
 
   
     
  About One Plus One  
     
  One Plus One is a team of researchers, practitioners and information specialists whose aim is to enhance understanding of how family relationships contribute to the well being of adults and children through three key activities:  
 
inquiring - monitoring and evaluating knowledge about relationships and effective support in order to develop key messages for policy and practice;
informing - creating imaginative formats for key messages tailored to different audiences, and raising awareness of the impact of couple relationships on the well being of individuals, families and communities;
innovating - developing innovative ways of getting specialist knowledge and skills about adult family relationships and early intervention to everyone working in the frontline with families, thereby adding value to existing practice.