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Affirmative -- General

Contemporary Families, Poverty, and Public Policy

Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants

Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence that Marriage Education Works

Marriage Promotion and Low-Income Communities

Marriage: The Safest Place for Women and Children

Reducing Domestic Violence: How the Healthy Marriage Initiative Can Help

Reducing Poverty by Revitalizing Marriage in Low-Income Communities: A Memo to President-elect Obama

Strenthening Couples and Marriage in Low-Income Communities

The Decline in Marriage: What To Do - Brookings Institution

Understanding the President's Healthy Marriage Initiative

Unusual Contradictions in Marriage Promotion: How the Marriage Movement May Lead to the Acceptance of Same-Sex Marriages

Hamrs -- Single Parenting Creates Problems

Beyond Single Mothers; Marriage and the Constitution

Decline of marriage is destroying our pupils, say teachers | Mail Online

Defending Marriage: A Memo to President-elect Obama

Father Absence and Youth Incarceration

Single Parent Children and Alcohol Abuse

Single parenthood disadvantages U.S. children more than others in math and science

Violent Crime and Fatherlessness

Harms -- Poverty

Let Them Eat Their Words ? Marriage Reduces Poverty

Official Statement on Poverty & the Family

Penalizing poor women: welfare policies in the United States penalize larger families while denying the means to plan for smaller ones | Conscience | Find Articles at BNET

Poverty and Inequality, Marriage and Brains

Poverty Rises Among Single Parent Families

The Effects of Marriage and Maternal Education in Reducing Child Poverty

Inherency

"Marriage Plus": Sabotaging the President's Efforts to Promote Healthy Marriage

Divorce declining, but so is marriage

Federal Government Launches Underfunded Media Campaign to Encourage Marriage on EthicsDaily.com

Government's Marriage Promotion Policies Likely To Fall Short

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Government Mandates for Marriage Promotion

Legalized Discrimination: The Rise of the Marriage Promotion Industry

Marriage and the Economic Well-Being of Families with Children: A Review of the Literature

Marrying Absurd: The Bush Administration's attempts to encourage marriage

Why the Now Legal Defense Fund Opposes the Marriage Initiative

Will marriage promotion work?