HM Links & Clips (12/27/10) #159 (same # as 2008)

 

10) http://www.assets4families.org/index.html and Register Now - Region VI Family Strengthening Summit

 

 

9) Marriage keeps you healthy: study - Silobreaker
Marriage keeps you healthy, even though it can make men fat, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday. Married people are less likely to smoke, ...

 

And The Middle Class Constantly Seeks Stability
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, New York Times “Room for Debate” blog, 12/23/10

 

 

 

8) 2010-12 Winter Newsletter
At Healthy Marriages, you can find opportunities to reach out and help another .... If you would like to host a Healthy Marriage event, give us a call! ...

 

And Effective Family Strengthening Interventions | PDFChaser | Best ...
The focus of OJJDP's Family Strengthening Series is to provide assistance to ongoing ... to repli-cate these findings and to further explore the elements of ...

 

 

 

7) Give kids happy, healthy marriage
Monroe News Star
Say you don't have a healthy marriage? Do something in 2011 to change that. Attend a marriage retreat. Read a marriage book. There are dozens of excellent ...

 

And The B.E.S.T. (Building and Enriching Stronger Tennessee) Families ...
implementing the marriage education program. From this information, the .... respondents felt people should be required to take a marriage education course ...

 

 

 

6) New Webinar: Planning and Applying for Fatherhood Funding | Alliance1
This webinar is in response to the federal government's recent authorization of $75 million for fatherhood programming in the 2011 fiscal year. ...

 

And National Partnership for Community Leadership (NPCL)
Purchase copies of The Fatherhood Development Curriculum at reduced rates. ... The NPCL Fatherhood Development Curriculum has the distinction of being the ...

 

And Integrating Healthy Marriage Skills in Responsible Fatherhood Programs

 

 

5) Healthy Relationship | PDF Finder | PDF Search Engine
Appealing to Teens to Participate in Healthy Marriage/ Relationship Education Appealing to Teens to Participate in Healthy Marriage/Relationship Education ...

 

And NIHMP BROCHURE - gt I Nbrak
American communities about the value of healthy marriages ... l would like to introduce the Nebraska Indian Healthy Marriage. Project and the NIH MP Staff. ...

 

 

 

4)  Michele Weiner-Davis: Terri, Thanks for writing such a thoughtful ...
But good marriage therapy and marriage education can radically change a marriage . Seeking help rather than an affair partner, is my preferred solution. ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../the-state-of-affairs_b_795993_71...

 

And Google Answers: Granular statistics on US divorce rate.

 

 

 

 

3) High Plains Coalition: Get Involved
Attend a Marriage Education or Relationship Skills class, and tell your friends ... Receive training to become a facilitator of a Marriage Education or ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) About 7000 more Iowans to qualify for food assistance
Radio Iowa
The flyer cites a variety of statistics, noting that spouses in a healthy marriage are less likely to drink heavily or use marijuana and their children ...

 

And Should Parents Fight In Front Of Kids?
WDSU New Orleans
Fights meant divorce in my mind. My parents generally argued over money and the stress associated with it, along with daily issues such as the laundry and ...

 

 

 

1) Smart Marriages®: Time and Hax / Worst Relationship Songs / Famili ...
By Diane
Fatherhood and Marriage Leadership Institute ----------------------------------- -------- - FOR INFORMATION about how to post to the Smart Marriages® newslist; subscribe or UNSUBSCRIBE, or an archive of all past posts: ...

 

And Smart Marriages®: Without Daddy/ Cast in America/ Top 10 / Eclipse ...
By Diane
Doing Without/ You Saved Me · Invitation to be Part Marriage Education history . .. FAQs / Twilight Toll on Marriage (really?) / Child... NPR Link / Innovations in divorce prevention / NYS... On NPR today / Fundraising and Partnerships ...

 

Bill Coffin

Special Assistant for Marriage Education

ACF/HHS

370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW Washington, DC  20447

(202)260-1550(o);

 Billcoffin68@gmail.com (new email address starting in Jan)

 

For previous editions of HM Links & Clips see http://billcoffin.org

HM Links & Clips (12/14/10) #151 - Coffin Corner
4) Links - Mississippi Healthy Marriage Initiative ... Another seeming contradiction to working at a healthy marriage nonprofit is that I am the product of ...

 

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National Marriage Project Newsletter

National Marriage Project Update                    December, 2010

Mission
The National Marriage

Project (NMP) is a

nonpartisan,

nonsectarian,

and interdisciplinary

initiative located at

the University of

Virginia. The Project's

mission is to provide

research and analysis on

the health of marriage in

America, to analyze the

social and cultural forces

shaping contemporary

marriage, and to identify

strategies to increase

marital quality and

stability.
 
 
 

New Research:

When Marriage Disappears
On Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values released the latest edition of The State of Our Unions. This year's edition offers an essay entitled, "When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America." The report chronicles the waning fortunes of marriage in Middle America, as well as the cultural, economic, and religious roots of the retreat from marriage in Middle America. It also explains why marriage is getting stronger among highly educated and affluent Americans. http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/ -->
In the News:

The National Marriage Project was featured in a recent New York Times "Room for Debate" roundtable on cohabitation and remarriage:
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