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	August 31, 2010 SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   Our Heritage: Quaddy and Lucy Jones For over a decade, educators of Heritage Keepers® Life Skills have taught SC middle and high school students about the importance of developing healthy relationships and healthy marriages.  One of the most poignant lessons was written by Quaddy Jones about his own marriage (almost 65 years!) to Lucy and the importance of relationships and family.     After a long decline, Quaddy passed away last week with Lucy and family by his side. Their beautiful story has been used to set high standards for thousands of HK® students as they consider their friendships, serious relationships and future life-long marriages.     The Gottmans' Secret To A Happy Marriage “Love Mapping? Avoiding the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? They sound like scenarios out of a science fiction movie, but they are keystones to Drs. John and Julie Gottman's extensive research on marital relationships. In this exclusive interview the Gottmans share their insight into what fosters a healthy marriage.”     Who shall find a happy wife?   By W. Brad Wilcox “The happiness or otherwise of women is one of the great sociological themes of the last five decades and it is not clear how the balance sheet currently stands. But, for anyone interested in the happiness of married women, a study of American wives by University of Virginia sociologists W Bradford Wilcox and the late Steven L Nock is highly instructive.” Read about the top predictors of women’s marital happiness...     Marry, For the Health of Your Baby This abstract shows the protective effect of marriage for the health of newborn babies. “The study concerned African American women and showed that the lowest risk for a low birth weight baby was found when marriage preceded childbirth for two generations.” More…     Turns Out, Marriage Really Does Pay Off By Melissa Thoma on August 19, 2010 “It turns out, according to the Census Bureau, that lasting marriages create more wealth for their partners than single life. A  15-year study of 9,000 people found that those who married and stayed married during that time built up nearly twice the net worth of people who stayed single. In fact, married couples realized the equivalent of an extra 4 percent of income growth annually.”   Read more…   Follow the SC-HFF Coalition on Twitter! 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 South Carolina. Please, forward this E-News to interested friends, family and colleagues and ask them to consider joining the Coalition. Join/Subscribe Unsubscribe PRIVACY POLICY: Information you share will never be sold, rented, or given to any third party. Contact Mary McLellan , Statewide Chairman (843)654-7740 ext.122