Empowering couples in the divorce process to make their own choices will with luck lead to more couples' choosing to resolve their divorces with the help of mediators and the support of counsel, as opposed to litigating in the court system.
Couple-targeted and stress-targeted interventions both hold promise for empowering couples to sustain their relationship and the well-being of their children, and additional empirical work will help clarify the conditions under which different strategies prove most effective.
I do this by empowering couples to take on the role I have as the observer to their own relationship.
Within the intervention group the proportion of fully empowered couples increased significantly by 14% from baseline to after the multifaceted intervention (P=0.001) as did the level of experienced knowledge (P<0.001).
I thought them more an empowered couple — facing down discrimination, refusing to be stopped by barriers, racial and otherwise, every step of the way.
The ruling also empowers lesbian couples fighting similar statutes in other states that draw a line between husbands and same-sex spouses, such as in Indiana, Alabama, and North Carolina.
Sex empowers lovers, grants couples pleasure and progeny, and is the most-often-cited cause of divorce.
