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Dibble Webinar
September 10, 2025
The Price of Love: Keeping Relationships Safe & Financially Healthy
The Price of Love: Keeping Relationships Safe & Financially Healthy is a powerful and practical webinar designed to shed light on the often-overlooked issue of financial abuse in teen relationships. This session will explore how money, resources, and economic control can be used as tools of manipulation, and why these red flags are just as damaging as other forms of abuse. Participants will learn how to recognize early warning signs, understand the emotional and financial impact on teens, and gain insight into how unhealthy financial dynamics can escalate over time.
More Teens Say They’re Using AI for Friendships. Here’s Why Researchers are Concerned
More teens are turning to AI companions for friendship, advice, and emotional support, including exploring their sexuality, prompting concern that this may replace real relationships and hinder social development.
Romantic Breakups Can Trigger Trauma-Like Brain Activity in Young Adults
Researchers found that for some young adults, breakups elicit brain responses similar to trauma. Participants who viewed breakup-related images, including those of their ex, showed increased activation in regions associated with emotional pain and threat detection.
Divorce, Family Arrangements, And Children’s Adult Outcome
Nearly a third of American children experience parental divorce before adulthood. To understand its consequences, we use linked tax and Census records for over 5 million children to examine how divorce affects family arrangements and children’s long-term outcomes. Following divorce, parents move apart, household income falls, parents work longer hours, families move more frequently, and households relocate to poorer neighborhoods with less economic opportunity. This bundle of changes in family circumstances suggests multiple channels through which divorce may affect children’s development and outcomes.
Healthy Relationships for 'Tweens
Dibble uses a positive youth development framework to prepare fifth and sixth graders for healthy relationships.
Healthy Relationships for Younger Teens (Middle School)
Dibble works with younger teens to teach them healthy relationship skills early in their lives.
Healthy Relationships for Older Teens (High School) & Young Adults
Dibble’s materials teach teens and young adults how to be successful in friendships, dating, and love.