Makes a great “”Ice Breaker”” to get participants involved in group discussions. The Primary Colors Personality Tool is designed to help you discover how people are different when it comes to how they handle life and relationships. It can help you think about your own strengths and potential pitfalls with others. (Author abstract)
The Calming Skills audio CD is a great way to learn how to calm yourself down in stressfull situations, or in preparation for an important talk with your partner. PREP Trained Leaders can use this CD as an additional tool for their couples. Audio CD Contents 1. Basic Relaxation Exercise 11:22 2. Quick Relaxation Exercise […]
This proclamation by George W. Bush stated the importance of marriage, and declared the week of October 12 through October 18, 2003, as Marriage Protection Week.
The 3 Keys refrigerator magnet can be used as supplemental participant material with several of PREP, Inc.’s curricula including PREP 7.0, Withing Our Reach, and Strong Bonds. Set of 10 magnets.
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 […]
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. […]
This policy paper explores why radical feminists oppose President Bush’s new marriage initiative. A case is made that radical feminists seek to undermine the nuclear family of married father, mother, and children, which they label the patriarchal family. The paper reviews the emergence of radical feminism in the 1960s, core beliefs of its founders, and […]
All citizens, including policymakers, should do their part to uphold the institution of marriage, because it provides the best environment for raising children, who are the future of our society. Strengthening marriage creates a stronger foundation for the family, the basic social building block, and also produces a stronger nation that benefits many future generations. […]
This paper draws on three waves of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, and qualitative data collected for a subset of parents in the survey, to examine how low-income, unmarried parents’ likelihood of divorce affects whether or not they marry after having a child together. We examine hypotheses generated from a qualitative […]
This report describes how 18 states and 26 counties within those states responded to the family policy provisions of the 1996 welfare law. The report also offers explanations for why state and local efforts to move clients from welfare to work were greater than efforts to promote marriage and prevent nonmarital births; why abstinence-based efforts to achieve lower rates of teen pregnancy […]