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82 Percent of Americans Cannot Solve Basic Math Problems!  Are You & Your Family Math Illiterate?
20June

82 Percent of Americans Cannot Solve Basic Math Problems!...

Should American parents of teens and young adults be stressed out by the climbing numbers in our populace that cannot understand and solve basic math problems? Many of us have gone to great measures to insure that are...

Is The Transformation Of American Families Changing The Nature Of Home Life?
20June

Is The Transformation Of American Families Changing The...

It's no secret that what is considered the normal American family has been changing dramatically over the past several decades. Many people can remember when a family meant a married man and woman who were the same race and religion Some...

The Surprising Results of a 75-Year-Long Study on Mental Health: Family Matters
20June

The Surprising Results of a 75-Year-Long Study on Mental...

75 Years is a long time. A good amount of people don’t even live that long. A recent study that started in the 1930s identified those factors that contribute to men's happiness has been published - and the results are surprising to...

Online Addiction Toolkit For Families Impacted By Opiate Epidemic
20June

Online Addiction Toolkit For Families Impacted By Opiate...

The bipartisan task force's online toolkit offers links for prevention, treatment, recovery and an online course for medicine safety.   Task force offers addiction resources for Families impacted by the opiate...

Effective Families Are Built From the Ground Up
20June

Effective Families Are Built From the Ground Up

Everbody knows what it feels like to try and get a job done when your hearts not in it. Some mindless task, it could be digging a hole, it could be doing your taxes, but whatever it is, it feels like it takes a billion hours to finish....

Build A Stronger, Healthier, Family Foundation
20June

Build A Stronger, Healthier, Family Foundation

Communcation is the key! Ditch the fear I’ve seen it a thousand times over: parents are afraid to talk to their kids. Afraid to speak openly about real life issues such as sex, or drugs, or whatever. Afraid that they may look...

Are PG-13 Movies Exposing Children To Adult Themes
20June

Are PG-13 Movies Exposing Children To Adult Themes

It's no secret to anyone attending the movies regularly that PG-13 doesn't mean what it once did. In the past, this rating would have suggested that a movie had mild adult content at most and wouldn't expose a young teen to anything very...

Are Children Being Bullied Into Obesity?
20June

Are Children Being Bullied Into Obesity?

If you remember P.E. class from school, then you can probably think of time when you saw the less physically fit students bullied by their peers. This happens every day in schools across the country and is often dismissed as just kids...

6 Reasons Public Schools Are Failing Our Children
20June

6 Reasons Public Schools Are Failing Our Children

It's no secret that public schools in many areas of our country are struggling. There are a number reasons for this failure, but for anything to be done more people need access to the right information about this situation. This list is...