Written by David Schel Like most people, I reached age 49 never experiencing a lotto win, surgery, or fighting in a war. I have, however, experienced the painful fallout of divorce throughout my entire life. When my wife and I got married, we had no family in our lives because of the devastation that occurred […]
Stop The Divorce Roller Coaster — I Want To Get Off! (A Child’s Plea)
December 21, 2012 2 Comments
Written by Lesli Doares I remember my 15th birthday like it was yesterday. You see, birthdays in my family had always been special occasions. The birthday child got to choose a special dinner menu and my mom would make the requested flavor of cake. But things didn’t quite go as usual on that September day […]
The Mouths of Babes
May 22, 2012 8 Comments
Written by Beverly Willett We have a tradition at the Episcopalian parish I attend. Every Sunday after mass, parishioners and visitors gather in the parish hall to greet one another and snack on refreshments provided by the Hospitality Guild. A few minutes into the get-together Father Cullen, our priest, rings a bell on the wall […]
Help Teens Learn To Build Relationships
October 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Mike McManus Although teen birth rates have fallen by a third over a decade, one in three U.S. teenage girls still get pregnant. And teenagers account for half of all first out-of-wedlock births. Few of those girls will ever marry, and only 30 percent of those who do are in their first […]
What Does Divorce Look Like from the Eyes of a Child?
September 12, 2011 4 Comments
Written by Lori Lowe Although I’ve been blogging about research-based marriage tips for nearly three years, I’ve never written about my personal experience as a child of divorce. When I was asked to write about it, I hesitated, because I don’t want to focus on a negative past or hurt my parents. But I […]
Is Divorce Literally Killing Our Nation’s Children?
September 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Beverly Willett People continue their outrage over the fact that Casey Anthony is a free woman. I wonder, though, if those screaming injustice know that for decades millions of parents have perhaps been contributing to the death of their own children. And, if they did, whether they’d shout as loudly, or instead […]
Not Counting Marriage and Divorce
August 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse The federal government has decided that it is too expensive to track marriage and divorce data; instead, it has turned its attention to tracking data about sexual activity, behavior, attraction, and identity of teens and adults. The marriage reports used to be detailed accounts (age of bride and […]
How Children Benefit from Strong Marriages
July 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Lori Lowe My last post shared benefits to the adults who choose to stay married. Even more plentiful are studies showing how children are positively affected—emotionally, sexually, mentally, and physically—when their parents are married as opposed to single or cohabiting. Research shows* that in the U.S. cohabitors resemble singles more than they […]
Divorce Lessons For Our Children
June 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Beverly Willett I got an e-mail the other day about upcoming summer concerts. Crosby Stills & Nash is coming to town in August. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of their hit single — “Teach Your Children.” It was also the 40th anniversary of the inception of our country’s no-fault divorce experiment. […]
Putting Children First
June 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Linda Chavez For the first time in history, less than half of Americans now live in married-couple households. The new finding by the Census Bureau reflects the most profound change in the nature of American society ever to have occurred, yet practically no one talks about it. Only 48 percent of American […]
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