Leonard Cohen's Song of Holy Matrimony

Dance Me to the End of Love

Thanks to Mothers who Work to Keep their Families Together!

Divorce is Killing Our Children

Here is the pithiest section of Dr. Fitzgibbons' article outlining the "cost" of divorce to children and adults:

...research on the children of divorce provide overwhelming evidence to disprove the myth that divorce does not harm children. In fact, the divorce epidemic has contributed to the serious and growing psychopathology in American youth. One example is the first major study of American adolescent psychopathology published in 2010 (Merikangas et al.): 49 percent of the 10,000 teenagers studied met the criteria for one psychiatric disorder and 40 percent met the criteria for two disorders. 

Taylor Marshall Offers 10 Radical Ways Catholics Can Save Marriage!

I love the first:

Always use the term "holy matrimony" for authentic marriage. What a beautiful term. My husband Larry will celebrate 46 years of "holy matrimony" this October. What a reminder of the sacramental nature of our union. We didn't "hook up" on our wedding day or promise to stay married "as long as we both shall (mush) love." No! We vowed to become one flesh "til death do us part."

I like Marshall's number 7 a lot too: