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101 Ideas from David Blankenhorn & Linda Malone-Coln
Ideas taken for full report of The Marriage Index.
1.Make the issue of reuniting fathers and children a top priority through programs of advocacy, family reconciliation, and community mobilization.
2.Create a council in your community that seeks to strengthen marriage and family life.
3.Make raising children who succeed in marriage at least as important a goal as raising children who succeed in careers.
4.If your marriage has recovered from serious trouble, consider volunteering in (or starting!) a marriage mentoring program in your community.
5.Write to your local officials and ask them to create a vision statement for your community about how to strengthen marriage and increase the proportion of children who live with their own married parents.
6.Be intentional about talking to your teenagers about marriage.
7.Encourage young people to see dating within the context of courtship, where courtship is defined as finding and winning the right person for marriage.
8.Recognize that older adults, including parents, teachers, college professors and administrators, should have important roles in adult children to make the commitment of marriage to the loves of their lives assuming that the partners are mature and responsible.
10. If your children do get married, offer to help support them while they get settled.
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