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June 03, 2009
Uncle Obama Wants YOU to Have a Happy Marriage
The oddest commuter-train poster I've seen lately shows a man and woman in bed. The man is asleep, mouth wide open, presumably in mid-snort. His arms are around a woman who looks back at him with that sitcom-familiar look of exasperation and affection. Oh, those men! The ad text refers to "engagement ring, wedding ring, snoring?" which was pretty clever.
The ad could have been for a TV show, but in fact it came from a program supported by the federal government. It directed readers to the website www.twoofus.org. Who exactly runs the site is a little vague:
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) is a national resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages. We strive to be a "first stop shop" for marriage and family trends and statistics, marriage education and programming, scholarly research, and the latest news and events. In particular, the NHMRC also provides training and technical assistance presentations and documents for federally funded Healthy Marriage Initiative grantees.The NHMRC supports the Administration for Children and Families, furthering its commitment to promote and support healthy marriages and child well-being by providing research and program information and generating new knowledge about promising and effective strategies.
The Administration for Children and Families is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Is this a good use of "stimulus" money?
The content is forthright -- dating violence, why men won't marry, the steps from dating to engagement to marriage to parenthood (as if the cycle ends there). The site even has a "community" section of blog posts, the most recent ones being spam. Photos of users veer from dating-site lingerie shots to homey family vacation pictures. The site shows views on blog postings and photos, usually under 100, so the site doesn't get much traffic.
I've never seen this poster before, so I wonder if somebody in the new administration decided now's the right time to help Americans, battered by the evil Bush regime's eight years of war against dating, engagement, marriage and parenthood, figure out which end is up. Now that we have a beloved First Couple, maybe we'll see them as poster family and we can decide once and for all whether the President snores.
We're from the government, and we'll TELL you how to have a happy marriage.
Van | 06/03/09 at 06:21 AM | Categories: Linkfest
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