• Matrimania, A Cultural Phenomenon

• Effects of September 11th on Rate of Marriage and Divorce in the USA

Not only are couples delaying divorce, quite a few are tying the knot. In Fayetteville, North Carolina chapels in the Fort Bragg area are filling with couples who want to forgo long engagements and get married. For many of them tragedy, grief, and good intentions may not be enough. They need to learn skills especially if they are children of divorce themselves. These high risk couples may need extra help as they navigate their relationships. Adult Children of Divorced Parents offers to teach them the skills they need to overcome the odds against them.
 

• Bush’s $300 Million Dollar Marriage Initiative to Strengthen Marriages and Reduce Divorce

Strengthening marriages, promoting counseling, skills training, and marriage education seems like a good idea for everyone, especially children a nd adults who have suffered through the divorce of their parents.  Some fifty-percent of today's boomer generation struggled through the dissolution of their immediate families and are high risk for divorce themselves. These marriage hopefuls will need help in overcoming the obstacles laid before them by their parent’s generation. Adult Children of Divorced Parents offers practical, hands-on tools that can aid this population in building successful marriages.

• Arguments Over Whether Divorce is Really a Problem Later in Life

2. What are the most common fears and/or insecurities for adult children of divorced parents?

3. What kinds of techniques do you teach couples in order to improve their communication?

4. If your parent’s are divorced does it mean that your marriage will fail too?

5. What kinds of exercises do you suggest couples do to find out how their parents’ divorce effects their relationships today?

6. How important is forgiveness in having a successful marriage?
 

• “Therapists write the ultimate recovery book for adult children of divorce.”—Don Harting, Marriage and Divorce E-Newsletter

• “I highly endorse both the speaking and writing of Beverly and Tom Rodgers.”—Dr Les Parrott, author of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

1.  “Divorce may liberate parents but it traps their sons and daughters for years.” — Judith Wallerstein Ph.D., The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce (Hyperion, 2000)

2. “Critics have overestimated the negative effects of divorce on children. At the end of my study only a fair amount of adult children described themselves as ‘permanently scarred’.” — Mavis Hetherington Ph.D., For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered (Norton, 2001)

3. “For concerned parents contemplating divorce, the news that 20 years later one-forth of kids are seriously dysfunctional surely cannot be treated as good news. There is one truth that both sides can agree on — Divorce hurts children.” — Maggie Gallagher, A Case for Marriage.

4. “Half of today’s 20 and 30 year-olds have suffered from their parents’ divorce yet our culture and our churches have asked very few questions about the experience of children of divorce. We have failed to recognize that a parent’s divorce shapes the spiritual journey of the child throughout their lives.” — Elizabeth Marquardt, Christian Century Magazine; Institute for American Values.