Poverty is caused by marriage-absence
Marriage-absence is the primary predictor of poverty. The 1996 welfare reforms were not a success. Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and demand social spending grew greatly since 1996. We must finish welfare reform to rebuild marriage and re-establish the proven pathway to upward mobility for most lower-income Americans.
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For Strong Education and Economy, Legislators Must Strengthen Marriage
Teachers cannot produce high test scores when they must parent half the class before education is possible. Marriage Economic Policy is necessary to make America competitive in the global economy.
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Your Choice: Marriage or Bankrupt Big Government?
America is at a pivotal precipice. Marriage-absence drives our greatest economic and social problems. Shuffling the costs around for decades brought about an unavoidable trajectory of national bankruptcy. Cutting budgets and ignoring this critical structural liability do not restore marriage. We must choose Marriage Values socioeconomic reconstruction policy or face political and economic collapse.
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Strengthening Marriage Through Better Laws
Laws that address the consequences of problems never work. This article shows how many marriages will be saved, and government budgets balanced, by helping spouses leverage a substance-abusing spouse into substance-abuse treatment.
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Reconstruction
For Strong Education and Economy, Legislators Must Strengthen Marriage
Teachers cannot produce high test scores when they must parent half the class before education is possible. Marriage Economic Policy is necessary to make America competitive in the global economy.
Marriage Economics
Marriage: America’s Greatest Fiscal Issue
Marriage is America’s leading fiscal issue. Marriage is a necessary economic structural component of every successful society. A very substantial portion of spending on welfare, health care, remedial education, teen pregnancy, incarceration, personal and small business bankruptcy, and home loan foreclosures arise because of marriage-absence.
Marriage Policy
The 10 Marriage Economic Policies to Rebuild America
The 10 Marriage Values policies will resolve the greatest problems of women, children, men, the taxpayer, and naturally balance budgets by stimulating marriage
Recent Events
The Founding of the Center for Marriage Policy
See the founding of the Center for Marriage Policy, hosted by the Concerned Women for America Missouri. Phyllis Schlafly, Janice Shaw Crouse, and Mike McManus are some of the speakers.
Recent Articles
Heartland: For Strong Education and Economy, Legislators Must Strengthen Marriage
Our latest article published by Heartland proves that marriage restoration is necessary to raise student test scores. Teachers cannot raise the classroom and then teach it.
Why Same-sex marriage is unconstitutional
Same-sex marriage is unconstitutional for two reasons. It will establish three different classes of marriage with vastly different rights and responsibilities. It is automatically a three-party marriage with government being the third party entitling legalized serial polygyny in any marriage involving women who have children conceived outside the marriage.
The Founding of the Center for Marriage Policy
See the founding of the Center for Marriage Policy, hosted by the Concerned Women for America Missouri. Phyllis Schlafly, Janice Shaw Crouse, and Mike McManus are some of the speakers.
Marriage: The Replacement For Welfare
A necessary component of America’s forthcoming reconstruction is the replacement of welfare and national health care with marriage. Marriage is revenue-positive and builds naturally-sustainable communities. Marriage is a positive issue for voters. A very significant portion of federal and state deficit spending problems structurally arise because the ratio of married families to single-head-of-household families is precipitously low.
ACU: Marriage Intervention
Our article published by the ACU demonstrates the need for wise policies giving spouses power tools to heal the common problem of substance abuse in the family to improve marriage rates, reduce divorce rates, decrease domestic violence, and reduce traffic fatalities.
Marriage: America’s Greatest Fiscal Issue
Marriage is America’s leading fiscal issue. Marriage is a necessary economic structural component of every successful society. A very substantial portion of spending on welfare, health care, remedial education, teen pregnancy, incarceration, personal and small business bankruptcy, and home loan foreclosures arise because of marriage-absence.
Marriage-Absence: America’s Greatest Problem
In his article “Marriage-absence: America’s greatest problem“, CFMP President David R. Usher discusses why marriage-absence is America’s greatest economic and social problem, and why “Marriage Values” policy will pull America out of deficit spending.
Marriage and Health Care Coverage
In “Doubling the size of the welfare state“, published on World Net Daily, David R. Usher points out that health care coverage would not be a major problem if marriage were the social norm. Marriage Values policy is required to structurally end this problem.
Saving marriage by impacting substance abuse in the family
“Marriage Intervention“, by David R. Usher and Rep. Cynthia Davis, published by the American Conservative Union, discusses tangible policy to positively impact substance abuse problems that lead to costly divorce and relationship break-up.
Reducing widespread black poverty
In its paper “Marriage: A social justice issue“, The Acton Institute proves that lifting black communities out of poverty and social bedlam rests definitively on restoring marriage as the social norm.
Why the Marriage Gap Is Bad For America
In her article “Why the marriage gap is bad for America“, retired Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears discusses why marriage is a necessary institution for maintaining or restoring the American middle class.
