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Marriage Education: what do we know? What should we do about it?
By Harry Benson
Bristol Community Family Trust - an example of this approach
Bristol Community Family Trust intends to apply these principles as follows (23):
- An ongoing media campaign is aimed at raising awareness of the benefits of marriage and commitment, as clearly identified by research (24). Compared to all categories of unmarried people, married people are (and become) happier, healthier, longer living, wealthier and safer to be around. Getting and staying married produces a long-term mindset that tends to change married peoples’ behaviour for the better.
- As Bristol couples pass certain key life events, they will be offered a course of relationship education – regardless of whether married or not. This will be offered when couples get married, have a baby and send a child to school. The key personnel involved in accessing couples are Registrars, church leaders, health visitors, midwives, GPs, and head-teachers.
- The educational course of choice is a short version of PREP. This is combined with follow-up sessions where the FOCCUS inventory is facilitated by ordinary “married mentor couples”. Both of these courses are ideally suited to a wide population, regardless of status or belief. Most importantly, both courses also have known track records in substantially reducing divorce rates and improving satisfaction.
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Copyright © 2001, Harry Benson.
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