This fact sheet describes the federal Community Healthy Marriage Initiative, an initiative designed to help couples who choose marriage develop the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain healthy marriages. Eight essential characteristics of a healthy marriage are listed, an overview of marriage education is provided, and the benefits of marriage education are discussed.
This research project was conducted as part of the evaluation for the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative. In 1999 Governor Frank Keating announced the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, with the objective of reducing the divorce rate in Oklahoma by 1/3 by the year 2010. One aim of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative is to change the culture of support […]
The impact of welfare policies on discouraging or encouraging marriage has long been a topic of discussion. Welfare programs, by providing single parents with the economic means to support their children, are thought to discourage marriage by their nature. The negative economic effects of single motherhood are well-known. In 2000, the poverty rate for children […]
The Alabama Department of Human Resources is exploring ways to promote Healthy Marriage Initiatives in the State of Alabama. Endeavoring to fulfill this mission, Alabama sought and received assistance from the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network to send a representative from the Family Assistance Partnership in Alabama. With the support of Ramona Warren, Team […]
In this testimony before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the benefits of President Bush’s proposed Healthy Marriage Initiative are discussed. The important role of the federal government in supporting the formation and stability of healthy marriages is explained, as well as the link […]
In this testimony presented to the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on October 6, 2005, a case is made for the development of federal programs to promote marriage and for supporting a proposal by Senator Brownback for Marriage Development Accounts and for Pre-Marriage Development Accounts. It begins by summarizing […]
In this testimony before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the benefits of State and community healthy marriage initiatives are discussed. The testimony begins by describing the Bush Administration’s promotion of marriage and federal funding to support demonstration programs and research and evaluation projects on healthy […]
This report includes the proceedings of a hearing held before the before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means to discuss federal and State promotion of marriage. It begins with a discussion on the negative impact of single parenting on children, the appropriate role of the […]
In this testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, the benefits of the proposed Healthy Marriage Initiative are discussed. It begins by summarizing key provisions of the proposed initiative and noting research findings that indicate marriage skill education programs are effective in increasing couple […]
This series of bulletins shows the questions asked in the 1990 census and the answers that you, the American people, gave. Each bulletin focuses on a question or group of questions appearing on the 1990 census questionnaires. This bulletin provides responses to the 1990 United States census question concerning marital status. (Author abstract modified)