The founders of such marriage counseling organizations as Mentor Couples and Community Marriage Policies argue that cohabitation without marriage is not an appropriate test of a relationship, explaining how such living environments result in ill-preparedness for long-term commitment and higher divorce rates. 50,000 first printing.
Mike McManus is a Duke graduate who was
Time's youngest
correspondent in 1963. He has been a nationally syndicated columnist since 1977,
whose award-winning "Ethics & Religion" column is published weekly. Mike's book
Marriage Savers inspired clergy to create Community Marriage Policies
that have reduced divorce and cohabitation rates in more than one hundred
cities. He and his wife, Harriet, cofounded Marriage Savers, Inc., to help
clergy better prepare, enrich, and restore marriages. They have personally
mentored fifty-seven couples preparing for marriage.
Harriet McManus married Mike in 1965. She was the first editor of
Marriage Savers and Mike's other books and is editor of Mike's columns.
Together they have initiated a premarital marriage ministry in their church,
Fourth Presbyterian in Bethesda, Maryland, and they pioneered the training of
Mentor Couples to administer a premarital inventory. She works full-time for
Marriage Savers as a writer, editor, and trainer. She and Mike have three sons
and six grandchildren.