The Healthy Marriage Initiative was launched under the Bush administration to help low-income couples strengthen their marriages and persuade unmarried couples to tie the knot. Seven years later, The Department of Health and Human Services has some bad news to report: the program has “produced precisely zero impact on the quality of the [unmarried] couples’ relationships, rates of domestic violence, or the involvement of fathers with their children.” Married couples did see a slight upswing in their marriage after taking the government’s course, but at a minimum of $7,000 in taxpayer money per couple.Read the entire article here: Is $7,00 Too Much for the Government To Spend on Improving a Marriage?
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