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Wendy Manning

@wendymanning.bsky.social

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I am a family demographer (aka population scientist) with a focus on American family and fertility patterns. Co-PI of NCHAT and co-director of NCFMR.

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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 18d

Happy Sunday! Check out this recent NCHAT publication from @chrisajulian.bsky.social, Hannah Tessler, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alexandra VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social.
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Half of the Picture: A Research Note on Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples | Demography | Duke University Press

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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Half of the Picture: A Research Note on Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples | Demography | Duke University Press

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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Feb 13

Now is the time, loyal readers! Check whether your institution is a subscriber--and if not, ask your library services or whomever to subscribe NOW so we can go OA. Spread the word!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Feb 13

Demography is 77% to the Subscribe to Open funding goal. Deadline to reach 100% is March 31, 2025 to flip the 2025 volume to open in perpetuity. Join subscribers for the 2025 volume - https://buff.ly/4aRk2G1.

Ask your institution to subscribe!

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NOH8 Campaign @noh8campaign.bsky.social · Feb 27

North Dakota House passes resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 10

The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.

Postal workers conducting the census is part of a Trump pitch for taking over USPS

The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 26

🧪 UPDATE: NSF just opened itself even further to lawsuit.

Yesterday, it doubled down on the false claim that its 1,000+ grant terminations are "not subject to appeal."

See question 16 here, published Friday afternoon: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

A brief thread... 🧵

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 20

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵

On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).

The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:

"not subject to appeal"

Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · Apr 18

Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Jun 29

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jun 28

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/

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As fertility rates in the U.S. and elsewhere continue to fall, standard demographic theories that focus on objective micro- and macroeconomic conditions seem unable to explain these trends. New approaches, such as the Narrative of the Future framework and the “uncertainty” paradigm, have emphasized the potential for subjective perceptions to be important for fertility decision-making, net of objective characteristics. We use a unique new source of data—the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, a nationally representative sample of cohabiting and married adults interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021—to examine short-term fertility intentions and better understand if and how including a general subjective evaluation (overall life satisfaction) and domain-specific subjective evaluations (economic stress and relationship satisfaction) are related to fertility intentions. We find that most respondents did not intend to have a child in the next year, though about one in seven respondents were unsure about if/when to have a(nother) child. Net of objective characteristics, overall life satisfaction was positively associated with short-term intentions to have a child, and greater economic stress was linked to uncertainty about short-term intentions. We did not observe a link in multivariable models between relationship satisfaction and intentions. Further, models stratified by parenthood indicated that both objective characteristics and subjective perceptions were more strongly linked to first-birth intentions than higher-parity intentions. Our results add to the growing body of work suggesting that (a) subjective perceptions have modest but significant links to fertility decision-making and (b) uncertainty in decision-making is important to consider.

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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

Opinion | Roll Back Legal Same-Sex Marriage? Republicans Are Getting It Wrong.

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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

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