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What You Can Do

 

 

  1. Remember you are a role model for your children.
    How you value your marriage, your spouse, and your children will influence all the future branches on your family tree.
  2. Institute family-friendly policies at work.
    Make strong marriages and active parenting a priority in your workplace. Troubles at home translate eventually to troubles at work.
  3. Celebrate marriage.
    Encourage anniversary celebrations at work, in addition to birthdays. Most of all continually grow in your own marriage relationship.
  4. Engage in civic outreach.
    Encourage civic organizations, places of worship, and other groups to learn about these issues.
  5. Redefine divorce as a last resort for you and for people with whom you have influence. If someone you know is considering divorce, encourage them to attend one of the local educational programs.
  6. Encourage and support the single parent families around you.
    Look for opportunities to provide appropriate assistance.
  7. Be an advocate for sexual purity.
    Talk frankly with your children about the perils of sex outside of marriage.
  8. Support the organizations in our community that are seeking to make a difference in the areas of marriage, out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and parenting.
  9. Encourage your place of worship to sign the Marriage Savers covenant.
    Encourage your place of worship to offer classes in parenting, strengthening marriage, and other helpful topics.
  10. Be informed.   Make a commitment to being informed about the problems that face our community and the solutions that really seem to work.
  11. Monitor the newspaper and respond on important issues.
    Write a letter to the editor about important issues.
  12. Contact your Congressman on important issues.
    You have unbelievable opportunities to make a difference on real issues.
  13. Educate and recruit others to join in a community-wide effort to renew, revitalize, and rebuild families.
  14. Donate to El Dorado Healthy Marriages Coalition (http://edhealthymarriages.org/contactus.aspx)

 

Neil Ulrich
http://www.firstthings.org/


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