The marriage rate has plunged 50% since 1970.  >  Half of all new marriages end in divorce.  >  Cohabitation diverts tens of millions of the marriage eligible from ever marrying.  >  Those who marry after living together are 50% more likely to divorce.  >  More than 5.4 million couples live together outside of marriage.  >  40% of children are born out-of-wedlock.  They are 5 times more likely to live in poverty than those in intact homes and 4 times more likely to be expelled from school or jailed.  >  Only 45% of teenagers live with their married mother and father.  >  Every divorce destroys a tiny civilization  >  AIMING FOR THE BEST: Preparing a man and a woman for a lifetime of successful marriage.
Home || News | Resources | CMP Map | Success Stories | FAQs || Learn How To Start a CMP || Contact || Support
Ready to Start a Community Marriage Policy in Your Community? Marriage Savers Can Show You How. Click here.
CMP News From Coast-to-Coast CMP's Work...
Across the United States CMPs are Improving the Quality of Marriages Watch the ABC News feature on Community Marriage Policies. There's a different kind of good neighbor policy, a new movement of saving marriages by turning to the power of church and community.  We have looked for the "Keys to Success," simple solutions for some of the country's bigest challenges.  For Better For Worse.  Is there a secret for a successful marriage? Yes, but you have to look outside the marriage and look to the community.  Those involved say they are seeing real results.   See an interview with the one of the key leaders in Elkton, Maryland's recent CMP efforts.   Marriage Save coming to town / Times-Mail, Bedford, Indiana   Group aims to help area singles find lasting love / Gazette.Net   Marriage reform proposed to lower divorce rate by half / Catholic News Agency
Community Marriage Policy Sponsored by Marriage Savers http://www.marriagesavers.org ©2008 CMP http://www.communitymarriagepolicy.org Contact us via Email Page updated on 03/24/2008 . . . .