Here’s what Barack Obama wrote in 2006. Hopefully, he’ll promote Marriage Education during his presidency:
…Finally, preliminary research shows that marriage education workshops can make a real difference in helping married couples stay together and in encouraging unmarried couples who are living together to form a more lasting bond. Expanding access to such services to low income couples, perhaps in concert with job training and placement, medical coverage, and other services already available, should be something everybody can agree on.”
From his book, Audacity of Hope, 2006, p. 334
Healthy marriages don’t just “happen”, just as being a competent driver or a good golfer doesn’t just “happen” — there are skills involved, and regular practice, practice, practice so that the skills become second-nature. Hopefully President Obama will recognize the value of promoting skills-based marriage and relationship education during his presidency so that healthy marriages and families truly “happen” throughout America which would have far-reaching social, economic, cultural and other benefits!