Whether you are a parent, grandparent, or guardian, this part of the website has been designed with you in mind. Each area will help you as a parent to talk with your teen and to come up with ways to handle a multitude of situations. We invite you to explore the entire Relationship Matters website!

Links

Parents 

Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.
 
Kids In Mind
www.kids-in-mind.com
Kids in mind provides parents and other adults with objectives and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids. 
 
 
4 Parents
www.4parents.gov
4Parents.gov is part of a national public education campaign to provide parents with the information, tools and skills they need to help their teens make healthy choices, including waiting until marriage to have sex. 
 
The Parent's Television Council
www.parentstv.org
The Parents Television Council was founded in 1995 to ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media. The organization works with television producers, broadcasters, networks and sponsors in an effort to stem the flow of harmful and negative messages targeted to children.
 

Families

The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
www.healthymarriageinfo.org
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) is a national resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages, and have the latest marriage and family trends, statistics, marriage education and programming, scholarly research and news and events. 
 
 
The National Fatherhood Initiative
The National Fatherhood Initiative mission is to improve the well being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers.
 
Smart Marriages
Smart Marriages, under the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education is dedicated to making marriage education more widely available to the public. The organization helps people "get smarter" about marriage, so that when they know better, they will do better. 
 

 
The National Marriage Project
The National Marriage Project provides research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing.