NPR profiles marriage and the federal government’s Healthy Families Initiative with a series of stories on:
Teaching Marriage to Welfare Moms (Oklahoma program for women on welfare)
‘The Four Horsemen’: Why Marriages Fail (four key problems that lead to divorce: criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling)
SmartMarriages: Devoted to Saving Couples (people devoting their careers to teaching people how to have a successful marriage)
Debating Marriage’s Effect on Poverty (the relationship between the decision not to marry and poverty)