did you know

• Marital happiness contributes far more to global happiness than any other variable, including satisfaction with work and friendship.  (U.S. Researchers on Marriage & Health)
  
  
• On average, marriage seems to produce substantial benefits for men and women in the form of better health, longer life, more and better sex, greater earnings (at least for men), greater wealth and better outcomes for children.  (Waite 1995)
  
  
• Marriage enhances the well being of men and women equally.  (Stack & Eschleman 1998)
  
  
• Statistics show that being married (rather than single, separated or even remarried) had a more powerful impact on well being than income or employment.  (ACCORD Interim Report P. 12)
  
  
• The divorce culture – the steady displacement of a marriage culture by a culture of divorce and unwed parenthood – has failed.   It has created terrible hardships for children, incurred insupportable social costs, and failed to deliver on its promise of greater adult happiness.
  
  
• The weight of evidence points to a most disturbing reality.   Child well being is deteriorating.   Almost all of the key indicators point towards this conclusion; rates of delinquency and crime; drug and alcohol abuse; suicide, depression, the growing number of children in poverty and others.   Some experts have suggested that the current generation of children and youth is the first in our nation's (U.S.A.) history to be less well off – psychologically, socially, economically, and morally – than their parents were at the same age.  (Marriage Enrichment by Richard A. Hunt, Larry Hoff, Rita deMaria)