Study Shows Lasting Gains from Marriage Education
A large, multi-year, federally-funded study of South Florida couples shows significant improvements in relationship consensus, cohesion, satisfaction, and affection a…
Challenging Marriage Educators to Prove Impact
As the annual SmartMarriages conference begins in Orlando, a Psychology Today article takes aim at proponents of marriage education for…
Marriage and health
For more than 150 years, policy-makers and researchers have known there’s a direct connection between marriage and health. Today, studies…
Study offers hope for marriages, families, and jobs
A study by the nonprofit PAIRS Foundation found statistically significant, lasting improvements in marital satisfaction for men and women who…
Helping Parents Strengthen Marriages and Families
Marriage education helps couples with children strengthen their marriages and families. The percentage who never consider divorce doubled after just…
Answering the Call
A marriage educator considers how his life might be different if his own parents had participated and reflects on the…
Research Report: PAIRS Relationship Skills Training Helps Men Succeed as Husbands and Fathers
Research demonstrates that PAIRS relationship skills training, a behavioral/cognitive educational approach developed, evaluated, and refined over a quarter century, has…
Relationship Skills Training Can Dramatically Improve Quality of Life for Millions of Families and Children
Relationship skills training founded on emotional literacy, empathy and bonding has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life…