One Plus One e-bulletin, No 18, July 2008
     
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Contents:
News from One Plus One
Research and policy news
About One Plus One
 
   
     
  News from One Plus One  
     
 

This month One Plus One completed an independent evaluation of fpa’s Life Skills course for young people, and sexual health training for Youth Workers. This report has now been published and can be downloaded here.

  
     
 

One Plus One has also held Brief encounters® training for a number of practitioners trained in Brazelton’s NBAS (Neo-Natal Behavioural Assessment Scale). One Plus One and Brazelton are working together to develop a prototype intervention to support relationships between new parents and between parents and their infant. The project has been funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families through the Children and Young People’s Fund.

 
 
In advance of the launch of thecoupleconnection.net, One Plus One hosted a seminar attended by guests and staff entitled Me, my spouse and the internet. Professor William Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Dr Ellen Helsper, Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Monica Whitty from Nottingham Trent University took the seminar which focused on the impact the internet can have on how we form and maintain relationships.
 
   
  During August parents and couples will be able to access One Plus One's new relationship support service thecoupleconnection.net. thecoupleconnection.net is divided into three sections, check it out, talk it out and work it out. By working through the three sections you will be able to find out about relationships and what makes them work or not work, talk to other people about relationships through the forums and work on your own relationship using you own personal space and innovative couple space. The service has been funded by the Parent Know How Innovation Fund. You or parents you are working with can register interest now by visiting thecoupleconnection.net and will be alerted when the site goes live!  
     
   
     
  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 our ICOR - the online Information Centre on Relationships.  
     
  Policy and Practice  
 
Provocation defence to be abolished
Interim report from CAMHS
Marriage visa age raised
Capability Review: Delivering the Children's Plan
DCSF consultation on protecting children from sexual exploitation
Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC to introduce Bill on living together
National debate on support for separating families
 
     
  Research and Statistics  
 
New research from IPPR into mental health and wellbeing among the over 65s
New research on Triple P
New book published on Governments and Marriage Education Policy
Provisional birth statistics from National Statistics
'Now we are 50' report from NCDS
New research on the Family Nurse Partnership
New report from FPI on the gender pay gap
JRF research into minimum income standard
Research into STIs and older persons
 
     
  Journal Articles  
 
 

Premarital precursors of marital infidelity by Allen, ES., Rhoades, GK., Stanley, SM., Markman, HJ., Williams, T., Melton J. & Clements, ML. Family Process, Volume 47, Number 2 pp243-259. To view the tables of contents click here.

Coparenting and non-resident fathers' involvement with young children after a nonmarital birth by Carlson, MJ., McLanahan, SS., Brooks-Gunn, J. Demography, Volume 45, Number 2 pp461-488. To go to the Demography website click here.

If-then contingencies and the differential effects of the availability of an attractive alternative on relationship maintenance for men and women by Lydon, JE., Menzies-Toman, D., Burton, K. & Bell, C.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 95, Issue 1 pp50-65. To view the tables of contents click here.

Relate and the judge speak out by Tyler, C. Family Law, Volume 38, July pp601-706. To visit the Family Law website 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.