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Effective Marketing and Recruitment Strategies for Relationship Education Programs Serving Native Americans

Presented by the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center on August 18, 2009, this 1 hour, 30 minutes webinar focuses on strategies for advertising family preservation programs to Native Americans, keeping enrollment strong in programs, and retaining program participants through the end of the course series. The first presentation by Ms. Jenna Umiamaka of the Keiki […]

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Delivering Relationship Education to Singles: Programming and Marketing Issues

Presented by the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center on July 31, 2009, this 1 hour, 30 minutes webinar focuses on providing effective strategies for tailoring relationship education content to meet the needs of young adults and how marriage and relationship education programs can effectively market to singles. The first presentation by Dr. John Van Epp, […]

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Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for November 2008

Data shown here are provisional and include only events occurring within the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia). Provisional birth, death, and infant death data in this report are based on a combination of counts of events provided by each reporting area and registered vital events processed into National Center for Health […]

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Strengthening Healthy Marriages: A Compendium of Approaches. DRAFT August 2002

An overwhelming majority of Americans still aspire to be happily married, yet more than three decades of high divorce rates, changes in social norms, and changes in the structure and organization of families make this goal seem difficult for many to achieve. In the wake of these changes, a new consensus is emerging among academic […]

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Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: Fall 1996

Evolving patterns of marriage and divorce are at the core of studying changes in family composition and living arrangements. The timing of the age at entry into first marriage often reflects the period when people enter adulthood, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s or the economic prosperity of the post-World War II era. […]

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Testimony of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Ph. D, Co-Director, National Marriage Project Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families, U.S. Senate

In this testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families, Dr. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, the Co-Director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, discusses the benefits of marriage. She begins by exploring the reasons for marriage and then describes the economic, educational, and emotional benefits of marriage […]

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Marriage Promotion and Welfare Policy: Not a Perfect Match

The Bush Administration has proposed to include new goals and funding in the federal welfare law for states to promote marriage among welfare recipients. The proposal is based on the assertion that the absence of marriage causes poverty and that marriage, per se, is good for children and for the country. But the proposal raises […]

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Depression and Marriage

This brief describes how depression can negatively affect both partners in a marriage, offers statistics on the incidence of depression, and discusses different types of depression. Common signs of depression in men and in women are identified, and possible reasons for depression are explained. Finally, treatment options are reviewed. 7 references.

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Cohabitation: Defining the Differences

This federally funded brief discusses how the rise in the popularity of cohabiting is linked to other important shifts in family patterns in the United States, and provides information on the number of cohabiting couples with children, different types of cohabitation, and research findings on cohabitation. Evidence is cited that indicates cohabiting before marriage is […]

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Clergy and Marriage Education Research Brief

This Research Brief examines the training/preparation available to leaders of the faith community, with an emphasis on Christian clergy, formally trained through a seminary or other organized system. Most of the scholarly literature available exploring the preparation for and practice of marriage education/preparation among clergy is in the form of unpublished doctoral dissertations. (Author abstract)

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