10) £100bn cost of broken homes: Tory minister declares children whose parents split are NINE times more likely to commit crime
Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to commit a crime than those brought up in stable families, a senior Cabinet minister has warned says the Daily Mail (and The Daily Express, the Telegraph). Iain Duncan Smith said the collapse of marriage had brought soaring crime rates, doubled the chances of living in poverty and cost the country an astonishing £100billion a year.
The Work and Pensions Secretary accused Labour of undermining marriage and family life and said the country had paid a ‘heavy price’ in deeper poverty, high crime and poor life chances for the children of families that failed to stay together. Mr Duncan Smith’s speech to representatives of Relate was the strongest defence of marriage made by a major government figure in years….
(that was from UK Marriage News)
U.S. figures are here http://familyscholars.org/2008/04/15/the-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/
And The marriage platform http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-marriage-20101026,0,5838513.story
9) Huffington Post Launches Divorce Section: What's Good, What's Bad, What's Puzzling
The Atlantic
And http://www.aaml.org/library/publications/making-marriage-last
And The Effects of Divorce on Children | Health New for USA
By Author
When going through a divorce, parents make a lot of mistakes that can cause long-term damage to their children. Mainly when people who have.
And Honey, I'm Home…
Herald Sun
Source: Sunday Magazine Bad news for lawyers: divorce rates in Australia are at a 20-year low. Just 47000 divorces were granted in 2008 – almost 10 per cent ...
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Strike while the iron is hot” This idiom originated around the 13th century, and was used to describe the work of a blacksmith who would strike a piece.
And The Nassau Guardian
How should premarriage education programs work Premarriage education programs can be in two formats the group or personal format where the couple sees a ...
8) Children put at risk by failure to engage men in protection cases
Children & Young People Now
By Gabriella Jozwiak Social workers are endangering the lives of vulnerable children by failing to engage with men in child protection cases, the Fatherhood ...
And A Life Beyond Reason
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
This essay is from Papa, PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy, published this month by Rutgers University Press.
And from 1993 Finding time for fatherhood: The emotional ecology of adolescent ...
Descriptions of fatherhood from as recently as thirty-five years ago now strike ..... This means that fatherhood too is taking many diverse forms. In this ...
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And 12th Annual National Fathers and Families Conference: Celebrating Fatherhood, Celebrating Diversity
March 1-4, 2011
The Fathers & Families Coalition of America, Inc. http://azffc.org/Final2011FatherhoodConferenceProgram4.pdf
7) 7 Things I've Learned in 7 Years of Marriage
PsychCentral.com (blog)
By John M Grohol PsyD A little while ago, my wife and I celebrated seven years of marriage. While ours is a good, healthy relationship, it's also had its ...
And 7 Ways to Build Your Marriage | Blogs | NCRegister.com
Nothing builds a marriage like shared goals. Hopefully you and your spouse already ... goals are equally important parts of building a healthy marriage. ...
www.ncregister.com/blog/7-ways-to-build-your-marriage/
6) Author visits KMC to talk about languages of love
The chaplain also echoed Doctor Chapman's thoughts on the role a healthy marriage plays in a deployment. "Positive communication is absolutely key," ...
www.ramstein.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123228761
And http://thingsiwishbook.com/chapter-1/
And http://www.drbilldoherty.org/
And iMOM iSpecialist - Dr. Walt Larimore , M.D.
The Death-Defying Power of Healthy Marriage. The companionship, love, and support provided by marriage are associated with lower mortality for almost every ...
5) 5 Steps to Answering the Question “Should We Get Married?”
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Marriage gives you emotional and economic security. This is only true in a healthy marriage. The high rate of divorce in today's society shows that this is not true for all. Marriage benefits women more than men economically. ...
And SAMHSA's Dialogue Blog and http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/ and http://www.drugfactsweek.drugabuse.gov/
And finance money values « Marriage.com.au
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4) The El Paso Healthy Marriage Project
The El Paso Healthy Marriage Project is funded by a five year U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families grant ...
And San Diego Fatherhood Examiner - Family | Examiner.com
Get the latest news and information on San Diego Fatherhood, including local information on Family.
And Marriage Matters making a difference with local couples
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
In the past four years, Marriage Matters Jackson has worked to promote marriage, prepare couples for a healthy marriage and preserve already healthy ...
And Calendar - Yuba-Sutter Healthy Marriage Project
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And Pregnancy Care Center to host client reunion tomorrow
News-Leader.com
The course, offered in collaboration with Operation US through the Healthy Marriage Initiative, gives new parents education and tools to build and maintain ...
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Utah Healthy Marriages Initiative - Search for Utah Healthy Marriages Initiative and other wedding Officiants and Premarital Counseling on Salt Lake City.
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It's no secret that open, healthy communication and time spent together are good ways to strengthen your relationship. Marriage and relationship experts ...
And Rate of Black Unwed Mothers Soars to 72 Percent
She wants her babies born as healthy as possible, so Carroll spends time talking to the mothers about how they should care for themselves, what she expects them to do — and why they need to get married. Seventy-two percent of black ...
And 'No Wedding, No Womb'?
Chicago Sun-Times
There is a "Marry Your Baby Daddy Day," founded by a black woman who was left at the altar, and a Black Marriage Day," which aims "to make healthy marriages ...
And - Jay Black's blog
By Jay Black
"16 & Pregnant" tip: There's an inverse relationship between how meticulously he shaves numbers into his hair and his fitness for fatherhood.
And ProQuest Document View - African American marriage: Education ...
African American marriage: Education, equity, and marital satisfaction. by Williams, Maria Shantell, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE, 2010, ...
2) How I stopped nagging my husband
Telegraph.co.uk
'To have a healthy marriage you each have to appreciate the good things about each other and play to each other's strengths. We have family meetings where ...
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Carol is the emotional glue for her marriage and her extended family. To their credit, they have developed these tendencies into complementary strengths, ...
And BGSU :: National Center for Family & Marriage Research :: Marriage
Building us up stronger: Unmarried parents' experiences in a relationship and marriage education program. Poster presented at the Administration for ...
And FRC's Marriage and Religion Research Institute, led by Dr. Pat Fagan, is a premier venue for the understanding the contemporary American family. As Dr. Fagan notes, "The Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) organizes data in a form accessible to the lay reader. As the Institute makes clear, the overwhelming majority of social science data supports the premise that the intact married family that worships weekly is the greatest generator of human and social goods and the core strength of the United States, and a norm to be considered again, first for those who worship God, but also for all men and women of good will." Three times annually, MARRI offers a report on its research concerning the American family, which you can access by clicking here.
1) At Dad Camp, guys 'man up' or get the boot
Globe and Mail
In the other: New York psychologist and family therapist Jeff Gardere (“Dr. Jeff”), whose job is to transform them into grown-ups ready to face fatherhood. ...
And Fatherhood Involvement - Surgery :30 | Video Streaming
Children with involved, loving fathers are significantly more likely to do well in school, have heal.
And How To Get The Most From The NRFC Library | National Responsible ...
The NRFC Library supports the efforts of the Administration for Children and Families/Office of Family Assistance to promote responsible fatherhood as well ...
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And Get Buck Naked With, Or For, Your Spouse!
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In this latest E-book Buck Naked Marriage, Corey took the time to interview just over 1000 people about what the essentials are in a healthy relationship. The first part of the book covers the top 10 findings. ...