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NCFR Nice story about the University of Central Oklahoma Council on Family Relations
Source: uco360.com
Students filled out paperwork and ate at the Campus Council on Family Relations joing meeting with the Early Childhood Association on Nov. 4. Photo by Tiuanna Harris

NCFR NCFR member Scott Stanley speaks this week for large gathering of Ohio clergy.
Source: blog.cleveland.com
Nearly 700 Ohio Catholic priests and bishops will gather in Columbus this week in an attempt to rescue holy matrimony, which they see as an imperiled institution.

NCFR Several NCFR members quoted in NYT on the subject of maternal gatekeeping
Source: www.nytimes.com
Having a father help with the child-rearing is important. Having a mother back him is more important.

NCFR NCFR blog: Bunking with Gordy
Source: community.ncfr.org
Our annual conference is coming up next week, and I can’t wait. It’s my favorite week of the year. I bumped into someone recently who reminded me of another conference, many years ago, that I’ll never forget.

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Special message to conference attendees!
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Source: www.youtube.com
California Here I Come as sung by the cast of I Love Lucy. Copyright DesiLu Productions.

NCFR NCFR blog: Family Life Education's glorious past!
Source: community.ncfr.org
This year is our 20th anniversary of NCFR's conferring of the Certified Family Life Educator credential. And yet, formally, the field is still relatively young.But family life educators have always been around—we’ve just been called different things. ...

NCFR University of Rhode Island to offer curriculum for Certified Family Life Educator credential.
Source: www.uri.edu
With more families in need of relationship and resource education, University of Rhode Island students can now become Certified Family Life Educators from the National Council on Family Relations. The University’s Human Development and Family Studies Department recently became the only program in R...

NCFR NCFR blog: What's it like to have dinner with a compulsive liar?
Source: community.ncfr.org
One of the most fascinating people I ever met was a compulsive liar. Something brought him to mind a couple of days ago, and I thought I’d write about him.

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NCFR member and University of Minnesota professor Catherine Solheim interviewed on American Public Media's Marketplace story on the effects that layoffs and this recession is having on families. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/displ ay/web/2009/10/23/mm-familytension/
Source: marketplace.publicradio.org
One family's recessionary tale : The Kaser family of suburban Minneapolis has been hit hard by the recession. Both parents have lost their jobs, and they are no longer able to make the mortgage payments. Annie Baxter reports on how the family is coping.

NCFR Our website has a fresh new look. Check it out!
Source: www.ncfr.org
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), founded in 1938, provides an educational forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to pr...

NCFR Former NCFR President Murray Straus quoted in New York Times article.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Many in today’s generation of parents would never spank their children. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells.



































