HM Links & Clips (10/4/10) #121

10) Smart Marriages®: Slideshow / Searching - 10/1/10
By Diane
You can download the Healthy Marriage Slideshow by going to http://www.camarriage.com/research/index.ashx?nv=8&pg=30 It is set up on the download so the Slideshow will advance automatically through all the different topics--Healthy ...

 

      California Healthy Marriages Coalition - Research - Healthy ...
       Is marriage a bad idea for women? Healthy Marriages, Healthy Women and Girls shows the       research that women in a healthy marriage and girls raised in a ...

 

And California Healthy Marriages Coalition - Research - Healthy ...
And it's all featured in Healthy Marriages, Healthy Children. Healthy Marriages, Healthy Children is available in print (as booklets), digital (PowerPoint, ...

 

And California Healthy Marriages Coalition - Research - Healthy ...
Research shows that a healthy marriage benefits kids, adults, communities, and society as a whole. And the profound benefits are physical, emotional, ...

 

 

9) Goal Setting
Are marriage education classes right for us and how will our relationship ... However, VOW's marriage education classes will provide you both with knowledge ...

 

And Indiana Healthy Marriage and Family Coalition » Classes
(c) 2010 Indiana Healthy Marriage and Family Coalition, Indianapolis , Indiana. All rights reserved. 317.927.9558 ph | 317.927.9557 fax | info@ihmfc.org ...

 

And Relationship Education
So the Air Force had The Granato Group create and administer a “train the trainer” program in marriage education called FIT Relationships. ...

 

And Center for Relationship Education - Couples Marriage
The Colorado Healthy Marriage Project (CHMP) is a 5-year Federal grant project, administered through the US Department of Health and Human Services, ...

 

 

 

8) Make it Last: Challenge is to be best spouse you can
Evansville Courier & Press
Taking time every year to learn new things about your relationship is essential to a healthy marriage. Many times women tell me that they would love to ...

 

And Operation Us | Do Shoes Really Make the Player?
Finally, preliminary research shows that marriage education workshops can make a real difference in helping married couples stay together and in encouraging ...

 

And A Guide to Promoting Resilience in Children: Strengthening the Human Spirit

http://www.leedsinitiative.org/uploadedFiles/Children_Leeds/Content/Standard_Pages/Levels_of_Need/Resiliance_new.pdf

 

 

 

 

7) New group helps men pay child support
Burlington Times News
To help men meet these obligations, the nonprofit Men's Empowering Resource Center has introduced a Responsible Fatherhood Program, which will begin its ...

 

And Most Parents Will Pay More Under New Child Support Guidelines

 

And Birmingham Fatherhood Initiative gains funding for 2011
UAB News
The Birmingham Fatherhood Initiative, an outreach program of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC), ...

 

 

 

 

6) Job loss doesn't have to ruin a marriage
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
What seems to be adding a lot more stress to marriage and ultimately to the family, since stress "filters down" to the children, is the fact that in this ...

 

AndMarriage and divorce disparities on the rise
Huffington Post
Social scientists have been talking about a "retreat from marriage" for at least 20 years. The overall pattern is a decline in marriage and rise in ...

 

And It's the Marriage Rate, Stupid
Mona Charen, Real Clear Politics, 10/1/10

 

And POSTEROUS_MORE

-2971">http://familyscholars.org/2010/10/01/love-and-economics-does-the-recession-de...-2971

 

 

 

 

5) Long Distance Couples: An Activities Handbook for Strengthening ...
By admin
I am a graduate student in Marriage and Family Relations. In one of my classes we just learned that for relationships to stay healthy the couple needs to have 5 positive interactions for every negative interaction. ...

 

And The Early Years of Marriage: Two Books « For Your Marriage
By sgarcia
Once the honeymoon is over, “the sobering reality of making a relationship work” sets in for newly married couples, Roy Petitfils writes in “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About the First Five Years of Marriage.” Marriages are “most at ...

 

And http://www.whathappycouplesdo.com/

 

 

 

 

 

4) Argument Style Ups Divorce Risk
Couples who do this during an argument can damage their
marriage. One type of strategy, however, has the opposite effect.

 

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CBC News - Canada - 40% of marriages end in divorce: report

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Anthony King The case for marriage | News for Dallas Texas ...
The case for marriage seems to have been wellmade for everyone – men women and children all do better in healthy marriages – and it would be good for many ...

 

And Why Knot Marriage - Healthy Marriage- Eventbrite
Marriage Nectar presents Why Knot Marriage -- Sunday, November 07, 2010 -- Camp Springs , MD.

 

 

 

 

2) idealist.org - Healthy Relationship Program Educator/Trainer
OIC of America, Inc. seeks a dynamic and organized individual for its National Healthy Marriage Education Project. The Healthy Relationship Program ...

 

And http://www.nflgonline.org/

 

 

 

1) Divorce law shift brings new costs for couples who split
SILive.com
STATEN ISLAND, NY -- The new no-fault divorce law will make some spouses dig deeper into their pockets. When the statute takes effect next week, ...

 

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Volume 125 · Number 1 · Spring 2010
Religion, Divorce, and the Missing Culture War in America

pp. 57-86

 

MARK A. SMITH explains why divorce, an issue that sparked heated controversy earlier in American history, is now absent from the culture war. He shows that religious groups gradually accommodated rising rates of marital breakup by changing their biblical interpretations and deemphasizing divorce as a political issue.

 

 

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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