American Leadership Conference
Free teens
Parents’ Days Council
Marriage Links (In alphabetical order)
Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education
CMFCE is an interest group whose members are convinced that family breakdown can be reduced through education and information. The Coalition serves as a clearinghouse to help people find the information they need to strengthen marriages and families - their own or those in their community.
Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, & Culture
The Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, and Culture is a non-partisan Canadian association for research and study of current trends and developments in marriage and family.
LoveSmarts
To support the creation of a positive youth culture in the U.S. that honors self-reliance, respectful relations between the sexes, marriage and parenthood, and service to others.
Maggie Gallagher
More opinion and analysis from Maggie Gallagher, editor of www.MarriageDebate.com.
The Marriage Doctor
“I expected to find the group setting an impediment, but it turned out to be one of the biggest positives. I learned much from the other couples.” - Dr. Rita DeMaria
www.MarriageMovement.org
Home of the Family Scholars Blog, which discusses new research articles, and findings about marriage and the family.
Marriage Watch
www.MarriageWatch.org is a service of the Marriage Law Project. The Marriage Law Project is a public interest legal research project which seeks to reaffirm marriage through 1) participating in key court cases, 2) sponsoring research, conferences and publications, and 3) offering hands-on assistance to interested policymakers and organizations.
National Marriage Project
The mission of the National Marriage Project is to provide research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing
The Philadelphia Area Marriage Resource Center
PAMRC is a web-based resource that has been created to help couples in the Delaware Valley strengthen their relationships.
January 10th, 2008
For Love and Money:
The Impact of Marriage on Economic Well-Being
November 2007
report by the Heritage Foundation
- Married men tend to have greater earnings than men in cohabiting relationships. full details
- Married individuals are more likely to own homes and stocks than peers who are single or divorced. full details
- Marriage is associated with greater likelihood of attaining affluence. full details
- Among individuals nearing retirement age, being married is associated with maintaining household wealth. full details
- Among individuals who rent, married individuals are more likely to apply for mortgages than peers who are single. full details
- Married-couple households are more likely to hold savings, checking, or money accounts than households headed by peers who are single. full details
- Among low-income households, married households are more likely to accumulate savings than non-married households. full details
- Among children of divorced parents, those whose mothers remarried are the least likely to experience poverty. full details
- Married individuals are less likely to default on debt than peers who are divorced. full details
- Marriage appears to offset the negative effects of a disadvantaged family background on economic well-being for women. full details
January 2nd, 2008
