Impact of Civil Marriage Recognition for Long-Term Same-Sex Couples
Key findings from the study include that state recognition of same-sex marriages is significantly associated with experiencing less motivation to conceal an LGB identity, less vigilance and fewer feelings of isolation and that marriage may also reinforce commitment within a relationship, leading couple members to feel more positively about their relationship with their partner.
Ellen D. B. Riggle, Robert E. Wickham, Sharon S. Rostosky, Esther D. Rothblum, Kimberly F. Balsam
<a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/marriage-and-couples-rights/impact-of-civil-marriage-recognition-for-long-term-same-sex-couples/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/marriage-and-couples-rights/impact-of-civil-marriage-recognition-for-long-term-same-sex-couples/</a>
The Williams Institute
2016
English
Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF)
The HMRF initiative provides grant funding for activities to promote healthy marriage and relationship education, responsible fatherhood, and reentry services for currently or formerly incarcerated fathers.
<a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/programs/healthy-marriage" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/programs/healthy-marriage</a>
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
English
Young women’s household bargaining power in marriage and parenthood in Ethiopia
This working paper examines the factors that affect the bargaining power of young married women in marriage and parenthood in Ethiopia, where power structures remain overwhelmingly male-dominated and patriarchal. It draws on longitudinal qualitative data and survey information collected by Young Lives with children, young people and their families between 2007 and 2015.
Nardos Chuta
<a href="http://www.younglives.org.uk/content/young-women%E2%80%99s-household-bargaining-power-marriage-and-parenthood-ethiopia" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.younglives.org.uk/content/young-women%E2%80%99s-household-bargaining-power-marriage-and-parenthood-ethiopia</a>
Young Lives
February 2017
English
Bitter Honey
Bitter Honey is a feature-length documentary presenting an intimate and emotionally charged portrait of three polygamous families in Bali, Indonesia.
Lemelson, Robert
<a href="http://www.bitterhoneyfilm.com/" title="http://www.bitterhoneyfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.bitterhoneyfilm.com/</a>
Elemental Productions
2014
English