What Next for the Marriage Movement?
December 16, 2025 |
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We come together
at a time of crisis and opportunity to declare our intention to
lead a marriage renaissance in the United States. Since
our first statement of principles in 2000, the marriage movement
has learned much and grown stronger. Now, four years later, we see
new opportunites and emerging crises for those who wish to recreate
a marriage culture...More. |
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Why We Support the Administration's Healthy Marriage
Initiative
February 17, 2026 |
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| We are marriage educators, scholars, civic leaders
and others who support the Administration’s marriage initiative.
We come together today to voice this support to our fellow citizens
and to seek to correct misconceptions about the initiative that have
arisen recently in the public discussion...More.
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Media Coverage of the Administration's Healthy
Marriage Initiative, 1/14/04 - 2/9/04
February 17, 2026 |
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| This backgrounder reviews media coverage of the Bush
administration’s “Healthy Marriage Initiative” during
the roughly four weeks of January 14 through February 9, 2004. The
sudden burst of press attention during this period has largely framed
the public’s current understanding of this policy issue. We
divide this review into two main parts. First, we review journalists’
political analysis of the marriage initiative. And second, we review
their substantive (or programmatic) analysis of the initiative...More.
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Can Government Strengthen Marriage? Evidence from
the Social Sciences
February 17, 2026 |
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| This report reviews existing research to find ways
that public policy can strengthen marriage and reduce divorce and
unmarried childbearing. Three key questions are addressed. First,
why should the law and public policy support marriage? Second, what
are the principles of successful marriage policy? Third, what can
government do? What strategies correspond to the best current evidence
from the social sciences? |
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The Marriage Movement: A Statement of Principles
Released June 2000 |
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| We come together as supporters
of something new - a grass-roots movement to strengthen marriage.
We come together to give public voice and direction to this new movement
- to explain our intentions, specify our goals, and seek the support
of our fellow citizens...More. |
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Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-One Conclusions from
the Social Sciences
Released October 2003 |
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| What do we know about the importance of marriage
for children, for adults and for society? There has been a sharp
increase over the last two generations in the proportion of American
children who do not live with their own two married parents, spurred
first largely by increases in divorce, and more recently by large
jumps in unmarried or cohabited childbearing.
This report is an attempt to summarize this large body of scientific
research into a succinct form useful to Americans on all sides of
ongoing family debates - to report what we know about the importance
of marriage in our family and social system...More. |
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Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black
America
Released June 1999 |
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| Father Absence is not a
uniquely African American problem. It is an American problem that
crosses racial, ethnic, and class lines. All across the United States,
fathers are quietly disappearing from the lives of children. For many
years, this subtle and growing form of child neglect has been tolerated
in communities throughout the county, among rich, poor, and middle
class alike, and in nearly every ethnic group. Driven by growing rates
of out-of-wedlock births, separation, and divorce, this trend is robbing
millions of our nation's children of the spiritual, emotional, and
material support of their fathers. |
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