Healthy Parental Relationships

Establishing and maintaining healthy relationships between parents and children is important. Researchers have found that there are significant benefits for children and youth who are raised by parents who are in healthy marriages. Children in single-parent families comprise 27% of all American children, yet they account for 62% of all poor children. Children are more likely to succeed academically when they are raised in two parent families that are in a healthy marriage. They are also physically and emotionally healthier than children, who are raised in unhealthy marriages. A healthy relationship between parents is key to raising productive and well-adjusted children.

According to the US Census Bureau 90% of the US population will marry. The vast majority of those who marry desire a lifelong healthy marriage. Research shows that those that are in healthy marriages enjoy a more satisfying marital relationship, have a greater likelihood of being more emotionally and physically healthy, having greater sexual satisfaction, more economically secure and, more importantly, have a better relationship with their children.

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“This video was produced by the Relationship Research Institute, through subcontract with Mathematica Policy Research, under contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. The information and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Department of Health and Human Services or the Administration for Children and Families.”

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