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Does Divorce Damage Children?

Taken from EnidNews.com

Published: July 05,2008

Can divorce be a good thing

Divorce affects about one million children each year in the United States. An old saying is that parents should stay together for the kids, even if the parents are not happy.

Sixty-one percent of Oklahomans think that parents who don’t get along should divorce. Thirty percent think that couples who are not in love anymore should divorce.

Research has found when parents hurt each other through abuse or frequent arguing, a divorce can be better for the kids. But most marriages that end in divorce are not these high-conflict marriages.

Many U.S. divorces happen when couples feel they are not in love or are unhappy together. These couples believe they would be happier apart. Many parents do not want to model an unhappy marriage for their kids, so they choose divorce. However, the kids may not see the marriage as unhappy. They often are surprised by the divorce and do not understand why it happened.

Many couples experience tough times, but are able to turn their relationship around and find happiness together down the road.

An unexpected divorce can hurt kids in many ways:

• Acting out

• Teen pregnancy

• Health problems

• Low self-esteem

• Mental health problems as an adult

• Getting in trouble with the law

• Dropping out of school

• Low income

Information from www.okmarriage.org

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This was found at citizenlink.com - July 3, 2008

Texas Lawmaker Proposes Tougher Divorce Laws

Texas couples seeking a divorce would be required to either wait two years or take a class designed to save their marriage, under legislation proposed by state Rep. Warren Chisum, a Republican. It currently takes 60 days to finalize a divorce in Texas.

Chisum, who has been married for 50 years, attempted to pass similar legislation in 2007, but it was defeated in committee.

Glenn Stanton, director of family studies at Focus on the Family, applauded Chisum for his perseverance.

“Unfortunately, divorce is far easier in this nation than it should be,” he said. “So, asking couples to think more carefully about their relationship, to reflect on the process of divorce, to reflect on the incredible fallout that will come from that — not just for the children, but for husbands and wives — is a very serious issue and worth considering.”

Last year, Chisum authored a law that waves the $60 marriage license fee for couples who take an 8-hour premarital class.

“We’re going to attack it at both ends — marriage and divorce — in an effort to keep families together,” Chisum told the Austin American-Statesman. “If this just saves one marriage, it’ll be fine with me.”

Dave and I were privileged to have been able to see an early viewing of the movie “Fireproof”. The movie is set to come out in theaters September 26, 2008. It is a movie about a couple going through struggles in their marriage and how they overcome them. It is put out by the same church that made the movie “Facing the Giants”. It is an excellent movie and we recommend that everyone go to see it. If at all possible, go opening weekend. Get a group of friends together and go see the movie and do dinner or dessert! It will be an enjoyable evening. We would love to see more quality movies in the theaters and in the movie business it is based on how well the movie did the first few days it comes out. You can watch the movie trailer at fireproofmymarriage.com. Tell all your friends about the movie and promote the movie at your church. It is well worth seeing!

INSTALLING A HUSBAND

Dear Tech support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?

Signed,

Desperate.

Reply;
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and don’t forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5. Conversation 8.0 may work better if you are willing to add ESPN 4.5 along with it. Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother- In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.) Also do not attempt to reinstall Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. Many have found it helpful to run Marriage Retreat 6.2. You need to be careful if you do, as this may require you to also run Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,

Tech Support

We have been picking blackberries most evenings. Mary has preserved 3 batches of blackberry jam. If you are thinking of visiting and like berry-picking now would be a great time! Our neighbor Nadine has been our berry-picking guide. We have picked on both Fry Lake and Almosta Farm which is the farm Just to the west that is owned by Spider and Nadine.

Eric Garcia of AMFM is coming to Oklahoma to promote Fireproof here.

The meetings are for Church Leadership so make sure the Leaders at your church knows about this. The date is Thursday, June 26 and the times and locations are:

First Southern

6400 S. Sooner Rd.

Del City, OK

The meeting will be at 9:00 am.

Immanuel Baptist Church

1451 E. 45^th St.

Shawnee, OK

The meeting will be at 11:30 am

Broadway Baptist Church

1000 N. Adams Rd.

Sand Springs, OK 74063

The meeting will be at 3:00 pm

Two different church groups have contacted us in the last two weeks that need places to hold youth retreats. It would be nice to get the youth retreat facility here refurbished so that it can meet this need. It wouldn’t take anything major but the list of minor projects is long. Everything from cleaning to fiberglass canoe repairs.

We’ve been doing a lot of cleanup around Fry Lake. There is so much to do. George, Daniel and Dave were out burning some of the piles of wood that have been stacked as they mow. George did a lot of pulling weeds down near the lake. George and Dave have been mowing and brushogging practically non-stop. It is absolutely gorgeous back here - everything is so green. Come back and visit us!!!

Last week, Daniel and Stacie had several of their friends over for a big bonfire. They all seemed to enjoy it and the party didn’t start breaking up till 4 in the morning!!! They are hoping to do more of them. Never a short supply of wood around here! Come back and visit, see if you can build a bigger bonfire! It not only was fun for them, it helps cleanup around here. George(Julie’s dad), stacks the wood in piles as he cleans up and mows. Daniel took his truck and Dave’s trailer and piled the wood on to burn.