The Coalition for Marriage Family and Couples
Education
Third Annual Conference
Smart Marriages®
July 1-4, 1999/Washington, DC
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Release:
The Good News: On April 29, 1999,
The Wall Street Journal reported that a
long-term first marriage is a new
status symbol.
The Bad News: It's reached this
status because it's seen as nearly impossible
to achieve. We’ve had a 50% divorce
rate for 30 years!
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The Good News: All the surveys report
that Americans still say that a happy
marriage is their number-one goal and that
85-90% of us are still getting married.....
at least once. In spite of the horrible
odds.
The Bad News: The divorce rate for
those marrying for the first time in 1999 is
STILL predicted
to be 50%. Some say it will be even higher
because
children-of-divorce are themselves more
likely to divorce. And, sadly, the break-up
rate is at least 10% higher for
remarriages. We don’t learn from our mistakes.
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The Good News: Research shows that
marriage benefits everyone involved - men,
women, children, and society. The
married are healthier, wealthier, more successful
on all measures, and even have better
sex.
The Bad News: We’re still operating
on the mythology perpetrated in the '70s that
marriage is good for men but not for
women. That children do just as well in
divorced, single parent, and step-families as
they do in intact first marriages. This is
simply not true.
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The Good News: New research has
established what it takes to have a satisfying,
successful marriage. Even better, a
whole new "educational" approach translates this
research into courses that teach
couples how to divorce-proof their marriages.
The Bad News: Almost no one is
aware of this research -- or the effective, affordable
new courses.
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The Good News: The annual Smart
Marriages conference gathers top
marriage experts --
researchers, policy makers, and educators -- from across the
country and around the
world to present the radical new, optimistic
approaches which can help couples achieve
the satisfying "status symbol" marriage of
their dreams.
The Bad News: If enough
journalists join us, this should be the beginning of the end
of the bad news!
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