This section includes
research, programs, publications, general information and links on
parenting (including fathering, single parenting step-parenting, and
more), marriage and couple relationships, work/life integration, divorce,
family stress and other related topics.
Parenting
Meeting
the Work and Family Challenge: a Business Perspective
Well-designed
and effectively implemented Work/Family policies strengthen business
by boosting productivity, by lowering costs through improved retention,
reduced absenteeism, and lower levels of stress, and by enhancing
worker commitment. Similarly, effective Work/Family policies, by enabling
workers to fulfill their commitments to family, strengthen society
and its capacity for sound patenting. In turn, this improves educational
outcomes and future workforce skills.
A
Common Sense Response for Our Children's Needs: Parenting Support
Groups
Today many are
casually discussing the changes that are apparent in our society.
We are increasingly aware that as our society changes it effects us
all. One aspect of this change shows up in the behavior of our youth.
Adults who have taught school or worked with kids for years discuss
the fact that our youth are gradually becoming more amoral, detached
and irresponsible. Those who have worked with parents for years notice
that for a variety of reasons, parents are becoming less involved
with their children's lives.
Work-Family
Initiatives: a Historical Perspective (1990-1995)
by Susan Seitel,
President, Work & Family Connection, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
speech to clients of The Partnership Group 1996
Dads
and Daughters
Dads and Daughters
is the national education and advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters.
DADs provides tools to strengthen father-daughter relationships and
transform pervasive cultural messages that value daughters more for
how they look than who they are.
National
Child Care Information Center
The National Child
Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau,
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, is a national resource that links information
and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery
system, working to ensure that all children and families have access
to high-quality comprehensive services.
Minnesota Fathers & Families Network (MFFN)
MFFN is a professional development and networking organization. Their goal is to increase the capacity of schools, nonprofits, and faith based organizations to meet the needs of men in families. MFFN believes that fathers and mothers have unique and important roles in the healthy development of children.
Family Issues
Individual and
Family Development
