Link: Did you miss the Smart Marriages 2009 Conference?
See clips from Keynote sessions from the 2009 Smart Marriages Conference. All 150+ sessions, 12 Plenary Keynote presentations, 2 Banquet Keynote presentations are available through iplayback.
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Using Search In Twitter
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- A gathering of like-minded and passionate people who see how the combination of marriage education, innovation and the leveraging of technology both on the global, national, and individual level is changing everything. At this session ALL OF US are the experts and have something of value to add to the conversation.
- We all have experiences to share we all can learn from. You will have the opportunity to share your own best practices and “in the field” insights.
- This session will be live video streamed. We are streaming everything on live video because we want to have people who were not able to make it physically to PARTICIPATE. People will also be able to watch or share the video session on-demand.
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Link: Do marriage education classes make a difference?
There’s some evidence that marriage education helps couples stick together. A study published in 2006 in the Journal of Family Psychology linked taking marriage education classes before tying the knot to higher satisfaction and commitment in marriage, less conflict and reduced chances of divorce, regardless of couples’ race, income or education. Researchers, led by the University of Denver’s Scott Stanley, acknowledged that couples who choose to take premarital education probably already have more of the social support, skills and commitment required for a satisfying marriage; that is, they’re a self-selecting group. However, the researchers controlled for a wide range of related variables in the random sample of 3,000 adults, and concluded the effects were too significant to be accounted for entirely by self-selection.
