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Online PowerPoint Presentations

• Skin Cancer: What You Should Know
• Generations: Connecting or Conflicting?

Marriage and Couples Relationships

• Couples Learning Together
• Helpers Supporting Couples

We are gathered here online to join together partners, friends and family, and family professionals with the latest information about how to create a happy and healthy life together.

"Having a happy marriage" is among the highest ranked goals of youth and adults on most opinion polls.

Yet two-thirds of those who marry today are expected to divorce. Teens and recently-divorced adults are increasingly pessimistic about the prospects of making marriage work.

Marriage can work--it just takes two committed people (supportive family and community help) learning together day-by-day. Like staying in shape, improving in a career, mastering golf or gardening, people tend to get out of marriage what they put into it. This site provides resources for that investment.

Strong marriages make a difference. Recent research finds that pair bonds.

• improve physical and mental health, wealth, success, and longevity
• provide a platform for emotional security, self-discipline, academic and economic success for children
• reduce public and private costs for medical, economic support, and remedial service.