Statewide Chair
Mary
McLellan
Heritage Community Services
Regional
Chairs
Mariscia
Cooper
(Pee Dee)
Charlie Lybrand
(Lowcountry)
Lenna Neill
(Upstate)
Rev. Randy Riddle
(Grand Strand)
Dr. Roger Rollins
(CSRA)
Charlotte Valentine-Green
(Ace Basin)
Advisory Council
Eugene Bacote
Darlington School District
Dr. Vera Bailey
Hilton Head Preg. Care Center
Pamela Berry
Colleton Fire and Rescue
Dr. Vonda Calcutt
Lowcountry Ctr. Diabetes
Sen. Chip Campsen
Charleston/Berkeley
Rev. Chuck Coward
Charleston Outreach
Robin
Crosby
Colleton County
Ligure Ellington
Ret.Capt. Charleston City Police
Dr. Randy Goings
Chiropractic Physician
Faye Hill
Lowcountry Pregnancy Center & SC Association Pregnancy Care
Centers
WC Hoecke
Fatherhood Practioner
Leroy Lewis
Upward Bound at Cof C
Norman L. Moore, Jr.
Colonel, USAFR(Ret)
Cyndi Mosteller
Comm. for Higher Education
Alexia Newman
Carolina Pregnancy Center
Fred Payne
Marriage Savers of Upstate
Jerry & Barbara Seymour
R& R Marriage Min.
Ronald Shoupe
Colleton County
Dr. A. V. Strong
A Better Way, Inc. (Gang Out)
Dr. Robert Thomas
Pulmonary Medicine
Pastor Phil
Thrailkill
St. Luke UMC Hartsville
Kelly Walker
Upstate Fatherhood Coalition
February 12, 2010
SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!
It’s not easy being
Cupid
Should Cupid inspire romance
that lasts a life time or hook-ups for fun and games?
Valentine’s Day, a fun day
for children to express love and friendship, is more often pitched to
adults and teens as a time to indulge in sex, regardless of the
relationship.
Not only are we bombarded
with the predictable Valentine’s Day promotions, we bounce from the
positive National Marriage
Week, What else could that ring
buy?, What Drives Sacrificing for
a Partner?, to the negative Sex Week at
Yale, V-Day on College
Campuses, Planned Parenthood Greeting
Cards, Condom Bowls in
NYC, to so much more…
There is growing angst in
our society over the ‘old school’ low expectations for romance, marriage
and family life. Most of us
are looking for more…
“Ultimately, what most of us
are looking for isn’t the guy who keeps us so intoxicatingly distracted
that we’re tingling in anticipation of his every phone call. It’s the guy we feel completely
comfortable with, the guy who ‘gets us’, hugs us at our parents’ funerals,
laughs with us, reminds us to go to the doctor, fixes the toilet, has our
backs and eventually set his dentures on the counter next to
ours.”
Lori Gottlieb in The
Washington Post 2/5/2010
Author of
Marry
Him
Love, yes, but be
committed to marriage
By the Honorable Leah Ward
Sears, Ret. Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme
Court
Here’s a word of advice this
Valentine’s Day: Don’t marry for love.
Before you hopeless
romantics hurl a chocolate heart at my head, let me qualify that. What I really mean is this: Don’t
marry only (or even mostly) for love. Find
out why…
They're Golden:
Together for 50+ Years and Still in
Love
Six couples share their most
unforgettable moments and secrets of staying happily married… Read
about it
Key to Success in
Marriage
One couple organizes the
churches in an effort to combat the divorce rate. (Community
Marriage Initiatives and Marriage
Savers)
Married Life
Important to Business Life
“… marriage and relationship wellness is corporate America’s
business. Divorce and failing relationships impact how an employee
performs at work and costs employers money.”
“… a healthy marriage uses the same skills that make a more
effective employee. Those skills include: Emotional Relational
Intelligence (our relationships with others); valuing differences;
communication; listening skills; and conflict management. Read
more…
For more information on how
to start a Healthy Family Formation Initiative in your place of business,
church, agency or community - contact the SC HFF
Coalition.
Join the Heritage Keepers® Facebook Cause
The South Carolina Healthy Family Formation Coalition (SC HFF Coalition) is organized and staffed by Heritage Community Services. The SC HFF Coalition promotes child and family well-being by providing opportunities for statewide communication about such issues as: adolescent pregnancy, unwed childbearing, fatherlessness, sexual exploitation of our youth, dating violence and domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, gang activity and youth violence.
Coalition members support healthy family formation initiatives that integrate character-based life skills, teen pregnancy prevention with an emphasis on abstinence-centered education, and the importance of fidelity-within-marriage.
Together
we can impact our culture so that forming healthy families becomes a norm,
rather than the exception, for
Please, forward this E-News to interested friends, family and colleagues and ask them to consider joining the Coalition.
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Contact
Mary
McLellan
,
Statewide Chairman
(843)654-7740
ext.122
