Thursday, September 9, 2010

Healthy Relationships & Benefits of Marriage

Children fare much better when both biological parents are involved in their lives.  Fatherhood programs work with fathers and mothers to develop healthy co-parenting relationships at minimum.  Fatherhood programs also work with fathers to develop an understanding and skills to form healthy, safe and loving relationships with their significant other, fiancee or spouse.  When marriage is an option, programs provide information about the benefits of marriage.

 

 

Healthy Relationships & Benefits of Marriage

How marriage can benefit your children:

Kids that are raised by parents in healthy marriages are:

  • More likely to do well in school and go on to college
  • Physically and emotionally healthier
  • Less likely to be raised in poverty
  • Less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol
  • Less likely to commit delinquent behaviors
  • Less likely to be a victim of physical or sexual abuse
  • More likely to have a better relationship with their parents
  • Less likely to divorce when they get married
  • Less likely to have a child as a teenager
  • More likely to receive moral, spiritual and physical support