HM Links & Clips (11/29/10) #148

10) Relationship Skills Education and Child Support: Evidence from the ...
Relationship Skills Education and Child. Support: Evidence from the Building. Strong Families Program in Texas. Robert Santillano ●Robert G. Wood ...
www.nawrs.org/LA2010/Papers/w1a2.pdf

 

And Building Strong Families Project | PDF Finder | PDF Search Engine
Building Strong Families An In-Depth Report on a Preliminary Survey on What Parents Need to Succeed ... Project Team Project Director Eugene C. ...

 

 

9) http://familyscholars.org/2010/11/27/marriage-is-alive-and-well/ and http://familyscholars.org/2010/11/27/glenn-stanton-on-the-new-timepew-study/

 

And Is Marriage Just Evolving? - By David and Amber Lapp - The Corner ...
David and Amber Lapp writes on NRO: Are the headlines right? Do Americans really think marriage is becoming obsolete? And does this trend simply show how ...

And Marriage is never ‘obsolete’ November 25, 2010, by jwooten (AJC) A story based on a Pew Research Center survey asks the question: Is marriage becoming obsolete? Only 52 percent of adults 18 and over are married, an all-time low. In the survey, 39 percent find the institution “obsolete,” compared to 28 percent in 1978. We might as well ask if honesty or personal responsibility is obsolete. Middle-class self-indulgence in lifestyle choices creates missing-parent voids in the lives of their children and tragedy when mimicked by the poor and uneducated. Marriage is never “obsolete” for children.

And Wedding Bells for America: Marriage Not Obsolete | Ethika Politika
By Margaret Datiles
Studies like the CDC's consistently establish that, although a person is free to have sex and bear children out of wedlock, marriage is crucial to children's well-being and is the bedrock of a healthy family life. ...

And First in Print: Who needs marriage?
Coldwater Daily Reporter
Since 1970, 43 million people have experienced their parent's divorce. “The Buster Generation, children of Baby Boomers, have lived the horrors of divorce ...

 

And Skepticism About Marriage Bodes Ill for Future
Richmond Times Dispatch
Just how healthy are these evolving attitudes toward marriage -- for families in general and children specifically? Despite the claims of TV shows, ...

 

And http://familyscholars.org/2010/11/29/brookingsprinceton-blog-who-needs-marriage-children-do/

 

 

 

 

8) NMSU: FamilyWellnessProgram
Some of the topics discussed including dealing with in-laws, communication, effective parenting and building strong families able to deal with life ...

 

And Texas Coalition For Healthy Families Texas healthy families ... Our Purpose. TCHF is a member supported organization founded by Marriage and Relationship Education leaders who are passionate about providing Texas families ...

 

And I Am ME: Patricia Merrill, Tucson, Arizona
The Fatherhood Channel
I was familiar with the PAIRS curriculum and when we had the opportunity to include it in our Healthy Marriage grant, we quickly did. ...

 

And Healthy Marriage Program Offers Couples Tips to Help Survive the Holidays
Gant Daily
To help couples strengthen their marriage through the holidays, the Healthy Marriage Program is offering a free 8-hour workshop on Saturday, December 11 th ...

And Driving down the divorce rate, one couple at a time
Victorville Daily Press
HESPERIA • With a goal of driving down the divorce rate countywide, the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino is hosting nonreligious relationship workshops ...

 

 

 

 

7) Disease Prevention Could Save U.S. Billions of Dollars Annually  (And so could divorce prevention –BC)
BusinessWeek
"Our estimate that $24.7 billion in excess medical spending would be avoided annually if primary prevention were able to achieve a 5 percent reduction in ...

 

And Divorce -- When Parenting Dies
Huffington Post (blog)
Frequently during the process of divorce long hidden brutal character traits are revealed. Suppressed resentments, hurts, and fears are evidenced. ...

 

And “I Remember Nothing” (from NYT Book Review)

…In “The D Word,” Ephron tells us she can’t think of anything good about divorce from the children’s perspective. “You can’t kid yourself about that,” she argues, “although many people do. They say things like, It’s better for the children not to grow up with their parents in an unhappy marriage. But unless the parents are beating each other up, or abusing the children, kids are better off if their parents are together. Children are much too young to shuttle between houses. They’re too young to handle the idea that the two people they love most in the world don’t love each other any more, if they ever did.” …

And http://www.redroom.com/blog/kevin-arnold/nora-ephron-dishes-divorce

 

And http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-hafner/qa-with-judith-wallerstein_b_778579.html

 

 

 

6)  Marriage should diminish crime Sherwood Park News Alberta CA
Marriage is a way of including men in families and ensuring they act as fathers We should all promote marriage through education women most of all ...

And Intimate 1 - Marriage Education
Intimate 1. ABOUT THE COURSE Intimate I is a smaller group course, where in addition to the topics covered in the Becoming One course, each couple works ...

 

And AFRC alert November 2010 - Australian Family Relationships ...
The SHM model is for low-income married couples and includes three components: relationship and marriage education workshops, supplemental activities that ...

 

 

 

5) http://www.themarriagelibrary.com/ and http://www.bettermarriages.org/?relationrips

 

And For better or for worse, happiness is linked to marriage
Vancouver Sun
By Derek Abma, Postmedia News November 27, 2010 A study led by a University of BC researcher proves husbands and wives' moods are closely linked. ...

 

And Web-Based Marriage Skills Training is Affordable & Private ...
When Jesse explored the industry and attended a marriage education convention, he realized that most of the couples he knew getting married were of a ...

 

 

 

 

4) http://www.changingfatherhood.com/

 

And Involved dads give kids a much better shot at success
Indianapolis Star
Darren King, getting his GED certificate, graduated this month from the fatherhood development class offered by the Fathers and Families Center. ...

 

And Up Center encourages responsible fathers
Suffolk News-Herald
The Up Center is offering three 13-week “Responsible Fatherhood” courses for custodial and non-custodial fathers, ages 16-30, in Western Tidewater. ...

 

And Quality time
York News-Times
As part of Head Start's Fatherhood Initiative, the Tailgate with Dad event was a time for students to bring in their dads or any important male figure in ...

 

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fatherhood program (16-25) - new york trades & labor jobs ...
Manhattan. manhattan. fatherhood program (16-25) ... And subject fatherhood program to this email i will contact you asap. Shift: Days ...

 

 

 

 

 

3) Stories from Oklahoma Marriage Initiative - National Healthy ...  And http://www.everymarriagematters.org/

 

and www.WalkTogetherMagazine.com and http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/ech/stakeholder_guide.htm and

 

 

Free download pdf: healthy marriage

 

 

 

 

 

2) You can join the Marriage and Family Counseling Collaborative Network by going to the following link and registering in the middle of the page: http://www.deploymentpsych.org/resources/copy_of_marriage-family

 

And The Progress News Healthy Marriage staffers offers tips for the ...
The Healthy Marriage staff would like to offer some tips to keep your relationship strong throughout the stress of the holidays ...

 

And A & M
A&M Partnership. Inspiring Hope - Abstinence & Marriage Education Partnership. Home · Our Story · The Beginning · Hope for Tomorrow ...

 

 

 

 

1) http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/127639-new-members-guide-2010 and http://www.drjoshuacoleman.com/forum/

 

And The Top 10 Marriage Blog Finalists of 2010
By Stu Gray
The 44 Marriage Blog Finalists – voted by the Readers of TheMarryBlogger.com. Vote for your favorite to make the Top 10 Marriage Blog List!

 

 

Bill Coffin

Special Assistant for Marriage Education

…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/)

 

Why Marriage Matters: 26 Conclusions from the Social Sciences
Our