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The National Center for Marriage Research (NCMR) seeks to fund up to four proposals ($20,000 per award) to support innovative research that contributes to theoretical, conceptual, methodological, or empirical developments about marital and family instability. A small but growing body of research indicates that marital and family stability may be as important as family type for individual well-being. Married families are typically the most stable, yet fewer Americans enjoy the benefits of married families. The high rate of divorce and the growth of single parenthood and stepfamilies coupled with increasing rates of nonmarital childbearing and cohabitation, mean that children and adults spend less time in married families. It also indicates family pathways into marriage have become more complex.
New research should investigate the causes and consequences of family instability, which encompasses both marital and nonmarital transitions. Greater attention to the mechanisms underlying the linkages between family instability and well-being is also warranted. Innovative conceptual and measurement development is necessary to build new research on marital and family instability. We seek applications that address these and other aspects of marital and
family instability.
The deadline is March 17, 2008.
Request for Proposals: Small Grants Competition, 2008 Marital and
Family Instability
Small Grants Competition Application Instructions, 2008
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