One Plus One e-bulletin, No 38, May 2010
     
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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 relationships and families.

 
 

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About One Plus One
 
   
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The One Plus One Research Department has had an article published in Children & Society. The article is a review of the international literature on the impacts parental relationship breakdown has on children and is entitled The varied impact of couple relationship breakdown on children: implications for practice and policy. To visit the Children & Society website click here.

 

One Plus One and Parenting UK will be hosting an event on the 7th July in London entitled Supporting relationships, supporting families: Is your service up to speed? With the coalition government's commitment to 'support stable families of all kinds' this event will provide delegates with all the latest evidence about family relationships and how services can deliver relationship support efficiently. For more information contact events@parentinguk.org.

 
     
  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 previous 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.  
     
  Research and Statistics  
 
bullet National Statistics publishes provisional fertility rates for 2009

New research finds unhappy people unlikely to find satisfaction at work

Research&stats Study: Building Strong Families evaluation suggests stronger approach is needed
Research&stats The Coalition Government publishes their Programme for government
Research&stats The best start: Supporting happy, healthy childhoods
Research&stats CAFCASS: Care applications continue to rise
Research&stats New research from Parentline Plus and Teacher Support Network call for greater 'parental engagement'
Research&stats

MCS4 Data from now available form UK Data Archive

Research&stats New research from LSE shows the link between divorce and men who help around the house
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IFS publishes new research funded by the Nuffield Foundation

Research&stats New research on transitions to adulthood
Research&stats New communication tool helps people with dementia to communicate more effectively with family and friends
 
     
  Journal Articles  
 
 

Enduring effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on maternal life course and government spending: follow-up of a randomized trial among children at age 12 years by Olds, DL. et al. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Volume 164, Number 5 pp419-424.

Marital status and satisfaction five years following a randomized clinical trial comparing traditional versus integrative behavioural couple therapy by Christensen, A., Atkins, DC., Baucom, G. & Yi, J. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Volume 78, Number 2 pp225-235.

Psychological distress, well-being and legal recognition in same-sex couple relationships by Riggle, ED., Rostosky, SS. & Horne, SG. Journal of Family Psychology, Volume 24, Number 1 pp82-86.

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Externalizing psychopathology and marital adjustment in long-term marriages: results from a large combined sample of married couples by Humbad, MN., Donnellan, MB., Iacono, WG. & Burt, SA. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 119, Number 1 pp151-162.

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Long-term outcome of a randomized controlled universal prevention trial through a positive parenting program: is it worth the effort? by Hahlweg, K. et al. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Volume 4, Number 1.

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When fathers' supportiveness matters most: maternal and paternal parenting and children's school readiness by Martin, A., Ryan, RM & Brooks-Gunn, J. Journal of Family Psychology, Volume 24, Number 2 pp145-155.

 
 
   
     
  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.