For more on Healthy Marriages, check out these ministries and organizations:
Focus on the Family – Marriage – http://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage.aspx
Love and Respect – www.loveandrespect.com
His Needs, Her Needs - http://www.marriagebuilders.com
The 5 Love Languages – www.5lovelanguages.com
Family Life – http://www.familylife.com
Sacred Marriage – http://www.garythomas.com/home
Fireproof – http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/
Laugh Your Way – http://www.laughyourway.com/
The Ruth Institute – http://www.ruthinstitute.org
National Organization for Marriage - http://www.nationformarriage.org
Association of Marriage and Family Ministries - http://amfmonline.com/
HomeWord Center for Youth and Family – http://www.homeword.com/
Here are other specific resources…books, DVDs, movies, etc. to encourage and help you in your marriage and/or your efforts to help others in theirs:
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There is a plethora of research on marriage and divorce. A few publications are listed below. This site will continue to add updates with recent data and publications.
Why Marriage Matters: 30 Conclusions from the Social Sciences
Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition comes from a team of family scholars chaired by W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia, William Doherty of the University of Minnesota, Norval Glenn of the University of Texas, and Linda Waite of the University of Chicago. The project is sponsored by the Institute for American Values.
*2011, Institute for American Values
The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce: First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and for All Fifty States
Most of the public debate over marriage focuses on the role of marriage as a social, moral, or religious institution. But marriage is also an economic institution, a powerful creator of human and social capital. Increases in divorce and unwed childbearing have broad economic implications, including larger expenditures for the federal and state governments. This is the first-ever report that attempts to measure the taxpayer costs of family fragmentation for U.S. taxpayers in all fifty states. Among its findings: Even programs that result in very small decreases in divorce and unwed childbearing could yield big savings for taxpayers.
Copies of the Executive Summary can be printed from http://center.americanvalues.org. A PDF file of the entire report (1,411kb, 44 pages) is also available for download.
