Designed to inform social workers, this fact sheet summarizes the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative. It begins by providing background information on President Bush’s goal of increasing healthy marriages by focusing attention and action on strengthening marriages and preparing couples for a healthy marriage. The specific goals of the Healthy Marriage Initiative are outlined, the controversy […]

This conference was to educate, inform, and assist stakeholders from across Alabama about ACF’s priority initiatives, to aggressively incorporate the initiatives throughout ACF programs and communities to strengthen families. The focus was on the importance of partnering faith- and community based programs with ACF at the State and local levels to bring fatherhood, healthy marriages, […]

This article describes Fit 2-B FATHERS, a social and parenting skills program for males in the corrections system that has been found to improve participants attitudes about themselves, their role as fathers, and their understanding of positive parenting practices. The program is designed to help participants become less of a security risk during the remainder […]

To provide our readers with a context for understanding the debate over marriage, we selected several central topics and invited some of the country’s leading scholars to share their expertise. Two authors were asked to examine recent economic, demographic, and social developments that have affected marriage and to comment on the causes and consequences of […]

The Healthy Marriage Self Assessment Tool was created for FRIENDS, the National Resource Center for Community Based Child Abuse Prevention programs. (CBCAP). This tool is to be used on a voluntary basis. The purpose of this self-assessment tool is to help state lead agencies and their networks of programs strengthen their work regarding healthy marriages […]

Evidence of public and private interest in programs designed to strengthen the institution of marriage and reduce the number of children growing up without both their parents is growing. Robin Dion addresses the question of whether such programs can be effective, especially among disadvantaged populations. She begins by describing a variety of marriage education programs. […]

For the last 30 years, encouraging employment has been the primary focus of U.S. anti-poverty policies. More recently, however, promoting the formation and maintenance of “”healthy marriages”” has emerged as a central feature of domestic social policy in the United States, with proposals pending that would allocate up to $1.5 billion to undertake and evaluate […]