Coffin Corner

10) Examining the Relationship Between Marriage and Health in African American Communities (Part 2) http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/31/9.toc Journal of Family Issues (Sage---see attachment---BC). (This was an AAHMI/ASPE project)

9) Young, single, childless women out-earn male counterparts
USA Today
The increase in twentysomething women earning decent paychecks while skipping or delaying marriage and motherhood has big implications for society and for ...

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8) Does Marriage Make Us More Alike?
ABC News
By LEE DYE If you live with your mate long enough, eventually you will look like each other, think like each other, and become so similar your friends will ...
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7) War toll is heaviest in poor, rural areas
The Augusta Chronicle
Barely out of his teens and already tied down by the responsibilities of fatherhood, he tried in vain to find work at Savannah River Site and the textile ...

6) Welfare, Tax Policy and Child Support Enforcement: Effects on Family Formation

and NEW TIP SHEET - Relationship Education and Pregnancy Prevention: What's the Connection?

5) You going? http://rom.thepmrc.org/ (I love the tagline—BC)

4) http://familyscholars.org/2010/08/31/wsj-blog-divorce-and-infidelity-down-in-downturn/

3) http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Education.aspx

2) http://themarriagelegacy.com/posts/marriage-enrichment-group/

1) Coffin Corner - Healthy Marriage
... mom and dad to be in a flourishing relationship, even if they live apart? – BC) ... that fathers and mothers have good relationships with their children. ...
billcoffin.org/

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