From: Center for Action and Contemplation <cac@cacradicalgrace.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:06 AM
Subject: Daily Meditation: Discovering Your True Self Through Prayer -- St. Valentine's Day -- Feb. 14, 2012
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From: Healthy Relationships California <info@relationshipsca.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Subject: Valentine's Day for Everyone Edition
To: Bill <billcoffin68@gmail.com>
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From: Council for Relationships <tip@councilforrelationships.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:49 AM
Subject: This Week's Relationship Tip
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From: Better Marriages (ACME) <huntpriscilla53@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Valentine's Day - Are You Ready?
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From: Joanne Bauer joanneb@dioceseoffresno.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:02 PM
Subject: family life -diocesan-recognized organizations
To: Bill Coffin billcoffin68@gmail.com>
You may be interested in looking at the website of St. Anthony Retreat Center: http://stanthonyretreatcenter.homestead.com/2009retreats.html
Blessings and much gratitude,
Sr. Joanne
Sr. Joanne Bauer, CSC
Family Life Coordinator
Office of Ministries
1550 N. Fresno St.
Fresno, CA 93703
From: National Marriage Week USA <sheila@nationalmarriageweekusa.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Look what's happening with National Marriage Week USA (This is the week!)
To: billcoffin68@gmail.com

Good News!
National Marriage Week USA is raising the tide to floats all boats--including yours!
Take a look at what is happening for National Marriage Week USA (This is the week!)
In PUBLIC POLICY, THE MEDIA, EVENTS and BENEFITS TO LOCAL PROVIDERS!
Like us on Facebook, and help build social media by forwarding the items down below!
IN PUBLIC POLICY!
U.S. Congressmen made floor statements from the U.S. House of Representatives on behalf of National Marriage Week USA (Feb. 7-14) .
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/news-room/us-congress-comments
An Inaugural Reception at the U.S. Capital. Check out the photo gallery.
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/news-room/photos-of-congressional-meeting
Governors' Proclamations in 2012
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/news-room/proclamations
Oklahoma lawmakers declare Marriage Week
http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/oklahoma-lawmakers-declare-week-marri...
IN MEDIA!
Help increase Social Media for marriage at Sheila Weber's FOX NEWS commentary, which was number 4 and 5 on Google news this week! Click comment and share at "A New Path to Upward Mobility--Get Married and Stay Married"
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/02/07/new-path-to-upward-mobilityget-marr...
A great overview story in The Washington Times. Feb. 5, 2012: "The third annual National Marriage Week USA begins Tuesday amid a tumultuous state of the union..."
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/5/us-marriage-rate-continues-decli...
In The Atlantic: "The Death (and Life) of Marriage in America"
"National Marriage Week USA kicks off today, and for many people, a national booster movement for marriage could not come any sooner..."
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/the-death-and-life-of-mar...
KLOVE Radio News Story
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/news-room/13-newsroom/105-news20120209a
The Christian Post: "What Can Christians Do to Strengthen their Marriage?" Feb. 8, 2012
http://www.zimdiaspora.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...:what-can-christians-do-to-strengthen-their-marriage&catid=73:music&Itemid=299
The Christian Post: "162 Reasons to Marry," Feb. 10, 2012
http://www.christianpost.com/news/new-frc-report-finds-162-reasons-to-marry-6...
Examiner: "It's National Marriage Week this week: What have you done about it?"
http://www.examiner.com/ex-offender-re-entry-in-washington-dc/national-marria...
USCCB--An initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
http://www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/2012/02/07/national-marriage-week-cel...
EVENTS!
The Date Night Challenge is now in 850 churches! Created in partnership with National Marriage Week USA, and it's still growing! Get info about this 2-hour webcast with Dr. Greg Smalley and comedian Jeff Allan at www.focusonthefamily.com/datenight
CAMPUS OUTREACH: Five ads for a College POSTER Campaign were created and used during National Marriage Week USA, at 19 universities (including 5 Ivy League). At least 5000 posters placed.
View them and use them at http://loveandfidelity.org/default.aspx?ID=9
Campus events listing during National Marriage Week USA through our partnership with the Love and Fidelity Network
http://loveandfidelity.org/default.aspx?ID=10
Our NATIONAL CALENDAR is burgeoning and growing! Thank you for posting your events and being a part of a national movement of marriage education to sweep the country!
Post your event or Locate an event near you.
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/find-events-in-your-area
BENEFITS TO LOCAL PROVIDERS!
Below is only a small sampling of friends who got media using National Marriage Week USA!
TV News Coverage in Boston:
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/news-room/13-newsroom/112-news20120209f
A story about National Marriage Week USA working at the local level. Generate your own story--create celebrations in towns all across America! A local group creates and publicizes a National Marriage Week USA Celebration!
http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/020712-marriage-week-column--3771660
Your TANGO experts say "I Do" to National Marriage Week!
http://www.yourtango.com/experts/yourtango-expert-s-team/yourtango-says-i-do-...
Marriage Works celebrates National Marriage Week USA
http://mymarriageworks.org/national-marriage-week-2012/
Build your own National Marriage Week USA campaign!
Grab our BANNER AD here and post it on your site. Or our LOGO!
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/free-campaign-materials/banner-ads
Help spread the word! Let's Strengthen Marriage!
Sheila Weber
Executive Director, National Marriage Week USA
www.NationalMarriageWeekUSA.org
sheila@nationalmarriageweekUSA.org
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From: Sheila Weber <sheila@nationalmarriageweekusa.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Subject: Nicholas Kristoff in today's NYT about marriage
To: Cpstetson <cpstetson@aol.com>, Jeff Kemp <jeff.kemp@strongerfamilies.org>, Bill Coffin <billcoffin68@gmail.com>
Nicholas Kristoff in today’s New York Times, entitled “The White Underclass.” Aside from highlighting other social issues, Kristoff writes about marriage:
Persistent poverty is America’s great moral challenge, but it’s far more than that.
As a practical matter, we can’t solve educational problems, health care costs, government spending or economic competitiveness so long as a chunk of our population is locked in an underclass. Historically, “underclass” has often been considered to be a euphemism for race, but increasingly it includes elements of the white working class as well……
…..Then there’s the eclipse of traditional family patterns. Among white American women with only a high school education, 44 percent of births are out of wedlock, up from 6 percent in 1970, according to Murray.
Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage. Over time, my reporting on poverty has led me to disagree: Solid marriages have a huge beneficial impact on the lives of the poor (more so than in the lives of the middle class, who have more cushion when things go wrong).
One study of low-income delinquent young men in Boston found that one of the factors that had the greatest impact in turning them away from crime was marrying women they cared about. As Steven Pinker notes in his recent book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature”: “The idea that young men are civilized by women and marriage may seem as corny as Kansas in August, but it has become a commonplace of modern criminology….”
….. The pathologies are achingly real. But the solution isn’t finger-wagging, or averting our eyes — but opportunity.
Calling for a national movement of marriage education,
Yours for marriage,
Sheila Weber
Executive Director, National Marriage Week USA
www.NationalMarriageWeekUSA.org
sheila@nationalmarriageweekUSA.org