sherireland's comments:

on TOL Hosts Special Event on Higher Education

This is for the 2nd half of your program: Perhaps we need a different definition of "higher education" to include practical life skills, such as financial health, marriage education, parenting, etc. because as a society in these areas we certainly seem to be unstable. There is a wealth of material even from university research which could combat the the rising divorce rate for example but I'm not sure that we are teaching in Oregon Universities much that people will actually use for a lifetime. - Sher Ireland, licensed couselor.

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on What's Slipping Through the Cracks?

I think marriage and family relationships are slipping through the cracks, in one of our counties alone we had 10,000 marriages in 2007 and around 6,000 divorces. People are quitting each other left and right and the devastation is on the kids of these marriages. Most people spend more time learning to drive a car than they spend learning skills for the most important relationships that we ever do. I'm trying to combat this trend with a school that teaches people how to do relationships better . How about a Valentine's Day story?

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on The Challenge of Change

I think the way to produce lasting change is to never give up. I am in the process of trying to change the culture of marriage in Oregon from a 60% divorce rate to one where people train for marriage and learn the skills necessary to keep families together. It starts with the way people think, and for some reason people think that marriage should just happen, yet we train for the other important things we do in life. My school is starting with 38 different workshops for parenting and living life as a couple.

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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