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Tulsa Marriage Resource Network is a project of Marriage and Family Initiative. All donations to Tulsa Marriage Resource Network will be designated as such but will be processed through Marriage and Family Initiative.
A donation to Tulsa Marriage Resource Network will be used to flood the market with Christian marriage resources, increase the demand for those resources and bring the two together through our website.
At Tulsa Marriage Resource Network we desire to help couples before their issues become insurmountable. We want to get upstream from the problem rather than only picking up the pieces of a failed marriage.
Married people are happier, healthier, and better off financially. “When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the first result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.” – Mary Gallagher in her book The Case for Marriage. The estimated public cost of each divorce is approximately $40,000.*
We are using a tested and proven model to improve marriages in the Tulsa area which was developed by Community Marriage Initiative https://www.marriageinitiative.org/ and shown to reduce divorce rates and strengthen families.
Communities which have implemented this strategy have lowered divorce rates in their communities by 24-34% and show average community cost savings equal to 32x their investments.
Your donation dollars will have a significant impact on our local community in Tulsa and surrounding areas. Help us change family legacies for the better in our community.
*Source: Individual and Social Costs of Divorce in Utah, by David G. Schramm – published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Vol. 27 (1), Spring 2006. The $30,000 estimate was calculated using 2001 cost figures. $30,000 in 2001 dollars is equivalent to $50,000 in 2022 dollars. $40,000 in 2022 dollars is a conservative estimate, per Dr. Schramm.
