The mission of the Association of Marriage Builders is to help marriages thrive through professional support and research. This not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation will use its resources to support those who work in the trenches--professionals and non-professionals--who are trying to help couples who are struggling in their marriage. It will also help identify and develop effective ways to save marriages, and to demonstrate that effectiveness scientifically.
The Association of Marriage Builders will provide guidance and support to those who want to help married couples thrive. (1) It will achieve that objective at first by providing free access to existing information and research on the subject of marriage education and therapeutic methods. This information will be gathered from a variety of sources and organized in a way that provides convenient access. (2) It will also provide an opportunity for professionals and non-professionals alike to communicate with each other, providing a forum where questions and answers can be freely exchanged. (3) Finally, it will provide tools to be used by marriage professionals to organize, document, and evaluate the therapy they provide.
The Association of Marriage Builders will conduct research to evaluate the effectiveness of existing marriage education programs and therapeutic methods, building on the results of that research to provide an analysis of what causes existing programs to succeed and what causes them to fail.
Objective evidence-based evaluation and comparisons will eventually enable it to provide the profession with a better understanding of what makes marriages thrive. Categories of marital problems will be studied separately to pair the best education and therapy to the types of problems couples face.