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💔 The U.S. refined divorce rate in 2024 was 14.2 per 1,000 married women, down slightly from 14.4 in 2023. Nearly a million women divorced nationwide. Read more → doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

⚭ Marriage in the U.S. varies widely. In 2024, the national refined marriage rate was 31.2 per 1,000 unmarried women. Utah ranked highest (51.7), Delaware lowest (20.1). 📖 Read the new @NCFMR Family Profile → doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

Happy Sunday! Check out this recent NCHAT publication from @chrisajulian.bsky.social, Hannah Tessler, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alexandra VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Divorce rate decline continues… we have been documenting these trends alongside marriage. @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

Check out our new paper using @nchatstudy.bsky.social dyadic data to measure sexual minority couples. The levels are twice as high when you consider the sexual identity of BOTH members of the couple. @chrisajulian.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Three out of five recent newlyweds cohabited prior to marriage. www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour... @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Another new paper on fertility intentions! Using @nchatstudy.bsky.social data, we consider whether cohabiting & married people's short-term fertility intentions are subjective perceptions of well-being. The answer? Yes! 1/ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

4% of marriages each year are now to same-sex marriage! 10 years of love wins! www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

Support for marriage equality persists! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...

Want to know more about same-sex couples? Check out our work. www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/...

Check out profiles of marriages to same-sex couples. In 2023 there were newly 73,000 marriages to same-sex couples, representing about 4% of all marriages that year. www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

"personal economic pessimism and concerns about having a good relationship in the future are associated with greater importance of avoiding a pregnancy in the short term" (controlling for economic and relationship status, etc) @karenguzzo.bsky.social, Belykh, @wendymanning.bsky.social , & Roza

It's also worth noting that when women aged 40 and over have a birth, their partners are usually over 40, too. We don't often talk about delayed parenthood among men, but it's definitely happening. 3/3 www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

Exclusive: Confusion over new DEI language from NSF and NIH leads Williams College to be first institution to pause accepting any grants www.science.org/content/arti...

New paper alert on - you guessed it - childbearing decision-making! @srhayford.bsky.social & I evaluate if people's perceptions of their personal lives & how things are going more broadly are associated with whether they thought it was likely they would have a(nother) child. 1/

Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society buff.ly/eFZCL4H

Are you a grad student or postdoc stressing out about job talks? Join me on 6/26/25 at 2 PM CST for a free class. You'll learn how to: ✔️ Avoid the “Big 3” job talk killers ✔️ Use storytelling breath life into your research ✔️ Handle Q&A like a boss Register here and please share: lnkd.in/g5f3YwtX

Let’s focus on the empirical evidence provided by demographic research & population science. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

Folks should appeal! Some universities don’t have resources or are not interested but it is important to appeal.

Great to see demographic expertise used in coverage of fertility. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/h...

One last NCHAT poster presentation today at 10:30am in the Ballrooms! Go check out the poster by @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alex VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social on Collecting Dyadic Data on LGBTQ+ Partnerships!

This analysis of canceled NIH grants really hits home. “According to a Bloomberg Opinion analysis, more than half of the 550 grants terminated over the last six weeks by the NIH addressed LGBTQ health somehow,” writes @lisamjarvis.bsky.social #LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #MedSky

Marriage equality has had profound impacts on LGBTQ + Americans’ lives, and even the threat of its potential loss is having serious disruptions on their individual, relational, and family well-being. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉If you are looking for a lively networking opportunity, then join us (@cdhauw.bsky.social) for #PAA2025 on April 11th in Washington, DC! 🎓Connect with researchers from top universities across the country and feel free to bring a friend to this casual event! ➡️ cde.wisc.edu/event/2025-r...

NEW: Ten voting House Republicans have now signed on to a resolution that says Congress "should take all appropriate measures" to make sure USPS remains an independent government agency and "not subject to privatization,” including Reps. Sam Graves and Thomas Kean www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Now you know: Percent married, US Black and White men and women ages 18-59: 1880-2023

NEW: The Census Bureau’s internal watchdog raises concerns about the reliability of the 2020 census over- and undercount estimates produced by the Post-Enumeration Survey, which was disrupted by COVID www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...

"The NIH has eliminated funding for dozens of HIV-related research grants, halting studies and threatening patient care across the country. Several researchers said the cuts put a stop to hopes of ending HIV in the US and around the world." www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/h...

My latest @npr.org story: Adding a citizenship question to U.S. census forms — a change that many Republicans in Congress and President Trump have wanted — would likely undermine the accuracy of the population counts, a new peer-reviewed study shows

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

My latest @npr.org story: The head of the U.S. Postal Service is stepping down. Louis DeJoy's exit comes after Trump officials floated controversial ideas for overhauling the agency

“State data shows nearly 90% of students enrolled in Ohio’s voucher program this year are not low-income qualified, a dramatic turnabout from the program’s stated initial purpose.”

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

New pub alert! The first of several in the pipeline showing that subjective perceptions of well-being and uncertainty about the future are important for understanding contemporary childbearing decisions in the US.

pandemic-related stressors are associated with delays in fertility plans... most common rationales for delay: 1 economic worries 2 health worries 3 concerns about an uncertain future New from: @wendymanning.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social @clairekampdush.bsky.social @gabriellejuteau.bsky.social

I just saw that a colleague’s grant on birth outcomes in Black families was terminated yesterday with what appears to be the same statement. The terminations are spreading and it’s chilling.

The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others." M. Gessen: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

6 weeks left to apply! buff.ly/3CCQFup PSID Summer Workshop - June 16th-20th, 2025 The in-person workshop covers the content and design of PSID & its supplements and provides hands-on lab sessions. *Applications due April 21, 2025* #earlycareer #gradstudents #quantitative

NYT cites a Harvard study about college students expressing their views - but only one part was reported. Based on course evaluations 4% of students reported they did not feel comfortable expressing their views on controversial topics. bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/websites.har... @nytopinion‬⁩

2. ICYMI:

NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

This is nuts!

Oh no! This is terrible.

In this new preprint, we examine how the Youth Risk Behavior Survey's (YRBS) declines in response rates, increases in missing data, and shifts in data collection from Spring to Fall bias sexual experience metrics. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...