This document presents early findings from the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) Demonstration Evaluation and provides an overview of the early implementation from the eight demonstration programs across the country providing SHM services. Services include healthy marriage and relationship education skills sessions and support services to over 6,000 low-income, married couples with children. (Author abstract)

Includes everything a leader needs to facilitate a couples group or class using Right Steps: Discovering a Better Marriage Workbook. Each couple in the group will need to order the Right Steps Workbook. Includes goals, handouts, schedules and detailed outlines for each session. (Author abstract)

This document presents early findings from the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) Demonstration Evaluation and provides an overview of the early implementation from the eight demonstration programs across the country providing SHM services. Services include healthy marriage and relationship education skills sessions and support services to over 6,000 low-income, married couples with children. (Author abstract)

Guidelines and exercises for facilitating a new Marriage Enrichment Group. Eight months of “”teach-out-of-the-box”” plans. Permission is granted to copy exercises only. (Author abstract)

This report examines changes in the likelihood, timing and stability of marriage among adults ages 25 to 59. The analysis utilizes the public use micro samples of the 1950 to 2000 Decennial Censuses and the companion 2008 American Community Survey (ACS). The 2008 ACS was the first Census Bureau enumeration to inquire if the respondent […]

David and Sarah Catron detail all the steps necessary to get a chapter of Better Marriages up and running in a community, congregation, or civic club. It includes practical information, which any group can use to get started. (Author abstract)

When family life is full of strife, what can a poor teen do? This book covers the basics of creating the civilized home–a place where people talk instead of yell, pick up after themselves, respect each other, and fight fair. And it’s not all about the traditional family. Tips also cover the blended, shaken, stirred, […]

What if dating were like football, where flags are thrown when the rules are broken? In this award-winning program, the Love Referee does just that, using his red flag system to stop the action when abusive dating situations develop. Play-by-play coverage of scenarios involving sexual pressure, manipulative and obsessive behavior, physical abuse, lying, and problem […]

Lt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it’s his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it’s another story. After a decade of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. […]

This workbook contains 68 reproducible worksheets, which provide instructors with a hands-on tool to help teens develop healthy relationships and prevent dating abuse and domestic violence. The six sections are: Evaluating Your Relationships, Understanding Abuse, Social Influences, Building Healthy Relationships, and Making Good Decisions and Review. (Author abstract modified)