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• Programs try down-to-earth aid for marriages | Over the last decade, marriage education has mushroomed, in churches, community centers, colleges and even high schools (The New York Times)
  
  
• Should this marriage be saved? | Conservatives just don't like the message being communicated, which is this: We don't want to get married (Laura Kipnis, The New York Times)
  
  
• The power of the ring thing | Abstinence programs, and the organizations that promote them, are gaining momentum in the United States. An increasing number of teenagers are pledging themselves to no sex before marriage (BBC)
  
  

Family:

• The strange rebirth of the family | The new fashion for making babies in fact upholds traditional values (Mary Kenny, The Guardian)
  
  
• Do children need fathers? | As family life becomes ever more complex, Louisa Young and John Baker debate who are the best people to parent (The Guardian, London)
  
  

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