One Plus One e-bulletin, No 6, June 2007
     
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Contents:
News from One Plus One
Research and policy news
About One Plus One
 
   
     
  News from One Plus One  
     
  Dr. Jan Pryor, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families, Wellington, New Zealand was a visiting Research Associate to One Plus One during June. She presented a seminar entitled Is silence always golden? The impact of silent conflict on adolescents to staff and guests. To view the powerpoint slides from the seminar click here.  
     
  Penny Mansfield, Director of One Plus One, attended the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships International Conference 2007 on Extended and Extending Families. Penny was a respondent looking at policy and practice during a workshop on Families crossing boundaries: transnationality and mixing, issues for family and relationship support and contributed to the panel discussion at the event's conclusion. To view the website for the event click here.  
     
  Penny was a signatory to a letter addressed to Gordon Brown and The Times newspaper calling for more support for children affected by divorce and "the establishment of an interministerial group to spearhead a new cross-departmental approach for families that are separating or have separated" that "would bring advice, information and support services together to promote the best outcomes for children and for their parents". To read the letter in full click here.  
     
   
     
  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 National Information Centre on Relationships.  
     
  Policy and Practice  
     
  The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has produced a book entitled Politics for a New Generation including a chapter co-authored by Beverley Hughes the new Minister for Children and Youth Justice (attending cabinet when necessary). The chapter, Children, Parenting and Families: Renewing the Progressive Story addresses the need for the policy agenda to focus on a "more holistic and preventative approach to supporting healthy relationships - among married, cohabiting and separated parents".  
 
Green Paper Joint Birth Registration: promoting parental responsibility
New Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Ed Balls appointed Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
The Lord Chancellor and Lord Falconer unveil plans for openess in the family courts
Care Matters White Paper
The Tax Law Review Committee - Taxation of the family
Amendments to the Mental Health Bill from the Government
Social Exclusion Minister launches the first part of the Families at Risk Review
Review of health visiting
 
 
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
Guidelines for health professionals on forced marriage from the Home Office
 
     
  Research and Statistics  
 
More that 18,000 civil partnerships formed 2005 - 2006
New study from National Statistics of the marriage rate finds a return to the long-term trend
Research from the Royal College of Psychiatrists shows high level of sexual and relationship problems among patients with psychoses
Research from JRF shows young people leave school with few qualifications
Report on sex, drugs and young people
Fathers and the modern family - publication from the EOC
Statistics from the Child Exploitation And Online Protection Centre
Research shows one in four three-year-olds overweight or obese
Research from Family and Parenting Institute
 
     
  Journal Articles  
 
 

Spousal concordance for alcohol dependence: evidence for assortive mating or spousal interaction effects? by Grant JD, Heath AC, Bucholz KK, Madden PA, Agrawal A, Satham DJ & Martin NG, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 31, Issue 5 pp717-728. To visit the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research website click here

Marital conflict and conduct problems in Children of Twins by harden KP, Turkheimer E, Emery RE, D'Onofrio BM, Slutske WS, Heath AC & Martin NG, Child Development, Volume 78, Issue 1 pp1-18. To visit the Child Development Website click here

Prevalence of methylphenidate use among Canadian children following parental divorce by Strohschein LA, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Volume 176, Number 12 pp1711-1714. To visit the Canadian Medical Association Journal click here

Childhood sibling relationships as a predictor of major depression in adulthood: a 30-year prospective study by Robert J. Waldinger, George E. Vaillant & E. John Orav, American Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 164, Issue 6 pp 949-954. To visit the American Journal of Psychiatry website click here
Interethnic and interracial dating in college: A longitudinal study by Levin S, Taylor PL & Caudle E, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Volume 24, Number 3 pp 323--342. To visit the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships website click here
Coping as a mediator between interparental conflict and adolescents' romantic attachment by Rodrigues LN & Kitzmann KM, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Volume 24, Number 3 pp423-440. To visit the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 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.