Coffin Corner

10) Helping Fragile Families
Brookings Institution
... new Fatherhood, Marriage, and Innovations Fund, by recommending that funds be set aside for establishing and evaluating marriage promotion programs. ...

9) http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/10/fatherhood.html (video from yesterday)

And“Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves,” But Could Use Some Help
Center For American Progress
Others include: Do policies that promote responsible fatherhood fail to recognize that women also face significant financial hardships and structural ...

8) California's Democrats and Republicans Surprisingly Agree on Marriage Issues
Kansas City Star
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While California liberals and conservatives have spent two years on opposing sides of the marriage definition issue, ...

7) What We Do - Ozarks Marriage Matters
OMM is able to provide these kits at no charge to couples in a 29 county area of Southwest Missouri thanks to Operation Us and the Healthy Marriage Healthy ...

And Agency aims to strengthen marriages | Garden City Telegram Online
Through Marriage for Keeps, they began to see what was missing in their ... them a night away from children that a healthy marriage needs every so often. ...

And Healthy Marriage Project | Cross Talk
By Brian Baker
During The Smart Marriages Conference is the leading professional conference for marriage education, I discovered that communities all over the United States were organizing and reducing their divorce rates by as much as 50%. ...

And Couples sought for "Newlywed Game"
WHIO Radio
The Marriage Resource Center of the Miami Valley is hosting the event as a fundraiser to support healthy marriage in Clark County. ...

And OPINION SHAPER: Couples need to cut divorce rate by investing in premarital ...
SuburbanJournals
Organizations like the St. Louis Healthy Marriage Coalition offers such support through workshops on communication, money issues and raising children for ...

6) Keys to a healthy marriage
Ventura County Star
Unfortunately, the same can be said for many of us — that we went into marriage or partner relationships with the skills we had. ...

And Turbulence Ahead: Marriage and the Economy
By Gerard O'Neill
Though he's decidedly pessimistic about the United State's capacity to restore a healthy marriage culture. But it isn't just about economics. There's also the small matter of freedom. Allan Carlson gets to the heart of the matter: ...

And from UK Weekly Update …Westminster Council puts price on 'typical unruly family'

A "typical unruly family" costs taxpayers almost £275,000 a year, Westminster Council has said reports CYPNow. Costs included those incurred by police, the NHS and the council, as well as welfare benefits and the cost of associated problems like drug abuse and truancy. The annual figure of £273,781 includes a year's foster care at £900 per week, £24,000 to tackle the risk of a young prolific offender and £23,200 to deal with domestic violence in each nuisance family. There are also costs for eviction, temporary accommodation post-eviction and money to tackle substance misuse as well as issuing antisocial behaviour orders.

5) http://www.familyminute.com/article/five-traits-of-a-good-marriage

AndMarital Conflict – Five Tips For Dealing With Marital Conflict
It is about humility and promoting humility within the marriage and on a person level. Do You Have a Healthy Marriage? Do You Have a Healthy Marital ...

4) Meeting the Needs of Veterans & Military Families: A Summit for Health & Human Services Professionals
November 12, 2010
Columbia, MO
This Summit will be addressing two key components: Increasing awareness of behavioral health, health, and family support needs of veterans and military families; and Identifying service integration to improve the deployment cycle, transition, and reintegration of service members and their families. Click here for more information on participating in this event.

3) http://www.milwaukeefatherhood.com/ and http://earlingramjr.com/2010/10/14/video-the-milwaukee-fatherhood-initiative/

2) UT News » Conference to encourage father involvement in children's ...
By Samantha Pixler
He previously was featured in The Blade as a panelist for the Second Annual Lucas County Children Services Fatherhood Summit in downtown Toledo. “Sharing one's story helps someone else who went through the same thing as you find support ...

And http://www.fathersincorporated.com/

1) Marriage Spotlight: Hardwired to Connect - iContact Community
For more information on the Twogether in Texas marriage education program, visit www.twogetherintexas.com and www.luvlasts.com. Hardwired to Connect Part ...

And Tell me what is the foundation for your healthy marriage
I will be writing a book soon and I would like the facts from men and women regarding what it takes to have a healthy, happy marriage that will last. ...

GO Giants!

Bill Coffin

Special Assistant for Marriage Education

ACF/HHS

370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW Washington, DC  20447

(202)260-1550(o);

Bill.Coffin@acf.hhs.gov

…We, Government Leaders, invite colleagues and citizens from every political party to engage in renewed

efforts to pursue laws and public policies that promote the well-being of marriages and families…(Excerpt from http://www.hamptonu.edu/ncaamp/proclamation/)

A Guide to Low-Cost Curricula and Resources: Marriage and Relationship, Fatherhood and Parenting,
and Financial Education available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/pdf/curricula_resources_guide_121509.pdf

 http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage 

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/doc/ACF_Curriculum_Assessment_Guide.doc

http://learning.hhs.gov/elearning/cop.asp

Why Marriage Matters, 26 Conclusions from the Social Sciences

#1 Marriage increases the likelihood that fathers and mothers have good relationships with their children.

#26 A child who is not living with his or her own two married parents is at greater risk for child abuse.

http://center.americanvalues.org/?p=7

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