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10) What skills have you learned from the healthy marriage program ...
Francisco Robledo and Viviana Gil share how for the first time in their 20 year marriage they finally learned to really listen and communicate with ea.....

 

9) Give Thanks! Time's View of Marriage Is Obsolete

Human Events - Nancy Pearcey - ‎7 hours ago‎

Just in time for families to gather for Thanksgiving, Time magazine tells us that marriage is becoming “obsolete. ...

 

And Study: Marriage Could Become Obsolete 
CBS 3 News (Philly)

 

And Get Living Alerts
Huffington Post
A Google search for "Marriage is obsolete" renders over one million hits, thanks to a new study out from the Pew Research Center and Time which found that 4 ...
See all stories on this topic »

 

 

 

8) What is Intentional Marriage? « Marriage.com.au
By Michael Hanley
My emphasis here is on rituals, but a lot else goes into being intentional about marriage: attending marriage education experiences, building a community of support for one's marriage, setting boundaries with children. ...

 

 

7) Divorced From Reality
The traditional marriage lobby doesn't make the right arguments.

 

And Ina Garten's Google Recipes Missing Ingredient « Fatherhood ...
By Fatherhood Channel
Fatherhood Channel — Marriage, Parenting and Family Relationships · Home · Ina Garten's Google Recipes Missing Ingredient. November 23, 2010. Ina Garten Google Recipes. Missing ingredient in Ina Garten's Thanksgiving recipes ...

 

And http://www.changingfatherhood.com/

 

And A Beginner's Guide to Twitter for Dads | Tips on Using Twitter for ...
By PJ Mullen
And while it can be a great place to share content you've created, you don't need a blog to make good use of it. All it really takes is an interest in finding other like-minded dads to talk about anything from fatherhood to sports to ...

 

 

6) The Reality of Teen Pregnancy: $156 Million Price Tag (in SC)

http://www2.counton2.com/news/2010/nov/23/reality-teen-pregnancy-156-million-price-tag-ar-1126150/

 

And http://familyscholars.org/2008/04/15/the-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/

 

 

 

5) To help you create a family health history, go to https://familyhistory.hhs.gov, for "My Family Health Portrait," a tool on the Surgeon General's family health history website.  You can then share the document with your family and with your doctor.

 

 

4) Mixing marriage and the Marine Corps
DVIDS
The Marine Corps and marriage are life-changing commitments, but they can coexist, and at Cherry Point the Marine Corps provides several resources to help ...

 

 

3) Patience: Key to a Lasting Marriage « For Your Marriage
By sgarcia
In addition to being patient with each other, couples need to be patient with the marriage itself. Healthy marriages grow and change. Social scientists point out that a couple can go through seven or more stages of marriage throughout a ...

 

And http://foryourmarriage.org/is-love-a-flimsy-foundation-for-marriage/

 

 

 

2) The 'O' Word
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/books/review/Blount-t.html?src=me

 

And http://www.plainlanguage.gov/index.cfm and http://apps.usa.gov/va-mobile-2/ and HHS Exec Director of Innovation

 

And Open Government Keynote: U.S. Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin discusses the Administration's role in open government.

 

 

 

1)http://umterps.cstvauctions.com/gallery.cfm  and http://appliedsportpsych.org/resource-center/parents

 

And one-stop Thanksgiving page

http://nyti.ms/ezcjjK

 

And a comment on The Parent of All Virtues from Michael Constantine

November 23, 2010 9:45am

I wrote these words in my thanksgiving message this year: "Live your life so that people will say,"Thank God he lived!" not, "Thank God he's gone!" It is wonderful when we can be the reason other people thank God. We can thank Him for making us a blessing. I know an 87 year old man who cares for his 65 year old wife who has Parkinson's. Fifty times a day she calls out to him, and fifty times he answers without complaint. Thank God for his life, and thank God he is my father-in-law.

 

 

 

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/)

 

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