News & Events 2016
Our Outstanding Faculty and Students are Often Making News
The BGSU Department of Sociology's research, disseminated as working papers, publications, and presentations, often garners media attention. Additionally, faculty, students, and staff participate in conferences, workshops, and seminars across the country, sharing policy-relevant research on American families with practitioners, fellow researchers, and policymakers.
Researchers chart diverse range of marital biographies
I-Fen Lin, Susan L. Brown, and Anna M. Hammersmith's research published in Research on Aging.
"Marital Biography, Social Security Receipt, and Poverty"
Research on Aging
Today's older adults increasingly unmarried
Matthew R. Wright, PhD candidate, and Professor/Chair of Sociology Susan L. Brown's research published in Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF).
"Psychological Well-being Among Older Adults: The Role of Partnership Status"
IPV research published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
"IPV perpetration experiences were reported by approximately 11–22% of respondents across the five waves of data..."
Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, PhD candidate, and Drs. Alfred DeMaris, Peggy C. Giordano, Wendy D. Manning, & Monica Longmore's article, "Parents and partners: Moderating and mediating influences on intimate partner violence across adolescence and young adulthood," was recently published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Karen Guzzo MPF research cited in The Washington Post
Multi-partner fertility research by Karen Guzzo first appearing in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science as "New Partners, More Kids: Multiple-Partner Fertility in the United States," was cited in The Washington Post.
Gray divorce team's research in NYT
Research from professors Susan L. Brown and I-Fen Lin & BGSU Graduate College students Anna M. Hammersmith and Matthew R. Wright, is cited in The New York Times article "The Gray Gender Gap: Older Women Are Likelier to Go It Alone." The study is published in The Journals of Gerontology article "Later Life Marital Dissolution and Repartnership Status: A National Portrait."
The Gray Gender Gap: Older Women Are Likelier to Go It Alone
The New York Times
Susan Brown on 'the gray divorce revolution'
Professor and Chair Susan Brown and Professor I-Fen Lin study 'gray divorce.'
"...So we're seeing two different patterns for younger and older people these days in terms of divorce. For younger people, their risk of divorces has actually dropped over the past 20 years. Whereas for older adults, we've seen a doubling of the divorce rate, and we call this the 'gray divorce revolution.'"
--Susan L. Brown on NPR's Here and Now
Congratulations, TARS Team!
Peggy Giordano led another successful grant! The TARS team (Peggy Giordano (PI), Monica Longmore, and Wendy Manning) received a new grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), "Pathways Linking Parental Incarceration and Child Well-being." This is a major three-year grant starting in January for data collection and analysis, providing support for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Earlier this year, Peggy, Monica, and Wendy were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Swisher and Dennison study educational mobility and crime
Professor Raymond Swisher and PhD candidate Christopher Dennison use data from a national longitudinal study to analyze the association between intergenerational educational mobility and crime.
Educational Mobility and Change in Crime Between Adolescence and Early Adulthood (WP-2015-12)
Karen Guzzo faces challenges in recent study
Karen Guzzo, professor of sociology, and Cassandra Dorius, Iowa State University, faced many "Challenges in Measuring and Studying Multipartnered Fertility in American Survey Data." Read the full article...
Population Research and Policy Review
Challenges in Measuring and Studying Multipartnered Fertility in American Survey Data (WP-2014-13)
No Groom, No Gloom
Gary R. Lee, professor emeritus of sociology, and co-author Krista K. Payne, NCFMR data analyst, find...
"Married people are happier than others, but there are plenty of exceptions to that..." the older, never-married women.
No Groom, No Gloom: Never-Married Women Just as Happy
Live Science
Wendy Manning elected next PAA President
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor of Sociology Wendy Manning who was elected to serve as President of the Population Association of America (PAA). Her term as President Elect begins on January 1, 2017, and she will be President in 2018. Manning's key duties include organizing the 2018 annual meeting and delivering the 2018 Presidential Address.
Keeping teen moms from 'turnaround' pregnancies
"It’s not that teens really want to become parents at an early age so much as they lack the ability, and sometimes even reasons, to actively plan for the future."
--Karen Guzzo, professor of sociology
Blame the Baby Boomers...
“I don’t think boomers are any less happy in their marriages,” says Brown. “As people live longer, there’s more motivation to get divorced, because there's a lot of life left to be lived.”
Check out the "Editor's Choice" article by Dr. Susan Brown and Matthew Wright published in The Gerontological Society of America
"Older Adults' Attitudes Toward Cohabitation:
Two Decades of Change"
The Gerontological Society of America
Drs. Sarah R. Hayford (OSU) and Karen Guzzo (BGSU) published in PDR
The researchers explore potential explanations for why birth intendedness varies by education and document the evolution of education gradients in unwanted, mistimed, and unintended fertility over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States.
Brown finds, for Millennials, there's no place quite like home
"Living with parents longer is “redefining and illustrating this lengthening of emerging adulthood,” said Susan Brown..."
Hammersmith, Lin research on caregivers published in The Journals of Gerontology
Evaluative And Experienced Well-being
of Caregivers of Parents and
Caregivers of Children
The Journals of Gerontology
Brown has found gray-divorce women are at financial disadvantage
“The financial implications are potentially troubling,” Brown says. “The evidence we have says gray-divorce women are at a particular disadvantage."
Manning serving as chair on NAS committee
Wendy Manning currently serves as chair on The National Academies of Sciences, Committee on National Statistics meeting on “Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs.”
Distinguished Professor of Sociology Wendy Manning discusses changes in American family relationships
- Americans OK gay marriage, cautious on divorce
- Americans warm to gay marriage, sour on marriage,
study finds - Survey: More acceptance of social changes_except divorce
- The News & Observer
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Guzzo!
Associate Professor Karen Guzzo has been elected as a member-at-large on the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Board of Directors.
Manning research appears in Italian publication Neodemos
Il benessere economico dei figli nelle famiglie con due madri omosessuali
Manning to deliver keynote address
Dr. Wendy Manning will deliver a keynote address titled "Same-Sex Couples and Family Well-Being" to the Council on Contemporary Families 18th Annual Conference at the University of Texas at Austin on March 4.
The wait of our unions
"Marriage is much less likely to happen and it's taking longer to get there," said Dr. Karen Guzzo...
Boomers are more likely to be single, divorced, or widowed.
Of all current U.S. marriages, only 7% have reached the 50-year mark
Demuth appointed to PJI Board of Directors
Professor Steve Demuth was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) in Washington, DC. Listen to what he and other experts have to say about BAIL in America: The Color of Pretrial Detention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBaVZqGXZrA&feature=youtu.be
Mothers' stress may affect their children
Mothers' stress, especially when mothers are stressed because of the juggling with work and trying to find time with kids, that may actually be affecting their kids poorly, finds study coauthor and Bowling Green State University sociologist Kei Nomaguchi.
BG researchers find those who divorce later in life may not be able to fully recover from a gray divorce
Brown speaks with Delaware Public Media about marriage after 50
BGSU researchers find gray divorce often caused by partners simply growing apart
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"Cohabitation and Child Wellbeing"
from The Future of Children
"...stable, cohabiting families with two biological parents seem to offer many of the same health, cognitive, and behavioral benefits that stable married biological parent families offer."
Updated: 08/26/2021 05:17PM