With all of the worthy causes in our Community, why should you consider spending budget resources to help strengthen marriage? Cicero gave the answer some 2000 years ago when he said, “ The first bond of society is marriage”.

Marriage is the foundation of the family, and the family is the foundation of society. If we strengthen marriage, we strengthen the family, we strengthen the children and we strengthen the community.

We have a powerful need and desire for coupling that drives us into and out of relationships.

In recent times we seem to have developed a "need" to be happy and the decreasing tolerance for delayed gratification. When we are single, we want to be in a relationship. When we are in an unhappy relationship most of us attempt to improve it and eventually leave if it doesn't get better.

A generation or two ago, men and women dated, married, had families, and rarely divorced. Everyone seemed to know the rules and followed them. "Fulfillment" was not a priority and unhappiness was not cause for divorce. Then our society changed, the rules changed, life and relationships became much more complex. We want to be happy, but we don't know how. We are traveling to a vague destination without a map or compass, and are not aware of what is causing us to be off track.

Do you know someone who is divorced or unhappily married? National Marriage Centers in association with the National PreMarital Institute can save relationships, prevent divorce and maintain an intact family.

National Marriage Centers, founded in 2000, is an independent, non-partisan, non- sectarian, Non-Profit, Registered 501 (c) (3)organization focused on strengthening marriage and reducing family breakdown through, couple empowering education and ongoing couple coaching.

Support for marriage does not require turning back the clock on desirable social change, promoting male tyranny, or tolerating domestic violence. We seek to bring hope and support to the nine out of ten Americans who at some point in their lives choose marriage as a vessel for their dream of a lasting, loving family bond.

The decline of marriage is not inevitable. Social recovery is possible and desirable. The goal of our organization is not perfection, but progress; not to eliminate divorce or unwed childbearing, but to reduce it further; not to make every marriage last, but to help more marriages succeed.

What can we do to strengthen marriage?

We can come together to support and energize this emerging effort to renew marriage and the marriage vision. You can join with the National Marriage Centers to help more men and woman achieve a caring, collaborative, and committed bond in their relationship.

You can join with us to reduce divorce and unmarried child rearing, so that each year more children will grow up protected by their own two happily married parents, and so that each year more adults’ marriage dreams will come true.

National Marriage Centers is at the stage of development where it is in need of financial assistance. Your generous contribution to this Not-for-Profit, Registered 501 (c) (3) organization will allow the program to reach our community and provide services to all.

Our educational program is in need of instructional scholarships, materials for our couples, video equipment, computers’, brochures, and nationwide advertising describing the program and services. Your donation will help provide these items and insure the success of the program.

We are in need of these funds to insure that this year marrying couples have the education and tools needed to have a successful and satisfying marriage.

All concerned citizens have a stake in the preservation of the family. Our program is exactly what is needed to attain that goal.

For your convenience, you can log on to our on-line donation page and make your contribution. All donations are tax deductible. Documentation will be sent to you for your records.

You can also mail you donation to:

National Marriage Centers,

P.O. Box 205

Babylon, New York 11702

Make your Check payable to: N P M I

Thank you for your kindness and attention in this matter.

Sincerely,

Sal Frasca

Executive Director