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Marriage & Family Builders offers workshops for marriage, singles, and couples education. These workshops use a research-based approach to teach couples and singles how to recognize common danger signs, manage and resolve problems as a team, have open and effective communication and preserve and enhance passion, commitment, fun and friendship. Workships are available in English and Spanish.
National Marriage Week USA, February 7-14, 2010
New research reports that the percentage of United States' adults who are married has dropped from 78 percent in 1970 to 57 percent in 2008, according to the recently released report, "The Marriage Index." Even more concerning, 40 percent of all American children today are born out-of-wedlock and 71 percent of African American children are born without married parents.
Research also shows that single mothers have only one-third the financial assets as married mothers. Children not brought up by both a mother and father have lower graduation rates, higher incidence of incarceration, and lower performance in school.
The church has a unique role to play in the revitalization of marriage. National Marriage Week USA (February 7th to 14th) offers a great way for the church to reach out beyond its own doors into the needs of its community.
(www.nationalmarriageweekUSA.org)
