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Building Strong Families
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The Building Strong Families project was jointly developed in 2002 by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and the US Department of Health and Human Services. The project was developed to address the high rates of children in the United States who are born to unmarried parents (Dion et al. 2010). Current and past literature suggests that children born to unmarried parents are at a higher risk for many negative outcomes such as living in poverty and experiencing barriers to quality education than children who are raised by their married biological parents. To address these concerns, the Building Strong Families (BSF) project was initiated to serve unmarried, romantically involved couples who were expecting a baby or had recently had a baby (Dion et al. 2010).
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According to the BSF project report, the developers of the BSF curriculum were: Julie and...
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Drinkard, S.L. (2019). Building Strong Families. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_377
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