Grace    is hurt…

                  is afraid…

                  is alone…

Together, we can change her world, and many others.

Every month, approximately over 109,500 marriages end in divorce here in the United States. In many instances it leaves children like Grace in a state of turmoil. In fact, for these children in this situation, the nightmare is far from being over – their problems are just beginning.

With Your Help, It Doesn’t Have to Be this Way

We need partners to help form healthy marriages and families.  Fragmented families are the  precursor for many of the social problems that currently confront America: child poverty, out-of-marriage births, abortion, teen drug and alcohol abuse, depression and suicide attempts, battered women, and the revolving door of poverty-addiction-crime- incarceration. One factor often related to all of these is the absence of a father. Investing in intact families is important for the nation because families play an irreplaceable role in shaping children and adults who can embody and pass on the personal and civic virtues that make a free society fruitful. As the family goes, so goes America. Adults in good marriages tend to be healthier, more productive, and more likely to have the financial resources, relationships and time to engage in the community. Healthy families are more likely to foster children who unfold their God-given capabilities and become productive citizens who give to the community, instead of becoming a burden to it. 

• Marriage is a union between man and woman for their mutual benefit, and a profound good in itself. 

• Marriage is the optimal foundation for families to raise children. 

• Children raised in families benefit from the formation of character, work habits and social skills. 

• Children from fragmented families, or families that fail to form, are much more likely to be raised in poverty. 

• Children from fragmented families are statistically more likely to engage in risky behavior, underperform academically, become sexually active early or abuse drugs or alcohol. Intact families tend to insulate youngsters against these behaviors. 

• The cost of fragmented families, and those that fail to form, is an increasing burden on the government and taxpayers. Going upstream from the problems is a prudent investment. 

• The family is the “vital cell of society,” the first school of civic interaction, and the first building block of civil society, with an irreplaceable value to children and communities. Sadly, fewer children are being born into intact families than ever in America. 

• Intact families benefit civil society, the private sector that counterbalances government and the economy. Rolling back the size of government necessitates strengthening civil society to balance the shift to the private sector.

• Free institutions cannot flourish in the absence of virtue. Free markets and free governments depend on the virtues fostered in families for their existence.

• Experiencing love in the covenantal context of marriage and family shapes the capacity of the human spirit to give and receive. Protecting marriage has transcendent merit.