Relationship Intelligence is a riveting text that tells young adults and singles the real deal on what they need to know about having intimate relationships today. Panzer cuts right to the core of this controversial topic with honest discussions of male/female relationships. He includes interesting facts, personal confessions, real life stories, powerful quotes from celebrity role models, and captivating graphics throughtout the book to keep you engaged, that will make even nonreaders want to read this book. You’ll find out:
o Common mistakes that can ruin a man/woman relationship.
o What brain research reveals about Male/Female differences!
o Why are people who fall in love on drugs? Why do they need to be careful about becoming romance junkies?
o What are the four stages of intimacy and why do many people never get beyond stage two?
o Is living together a good way to find if someone is a good marriage partner?
o Which surprising group has the best sex, health, and longest life expectancy?
o Why do good girl/bad girl stereotypes persist throughout the world?
o Why do declining rates of marriage endanger the physical safety of women and children as well as men?
o How is youth violence linked to their parents’ sexuality?
o Which popular 20th century beliefs about sexuality are based on junk science and why do they hurt men, women and children?
o How can you avoid falling into the Fairy Tale, Love conquers all, Entitlement, Virtual Reality, Lone Ranger and other relationship traps?
o What group is the most endangered species in TV-land?
o Why were many men happy to become feminists?
o Why do most college courses on marriage and family flunk the Relationship Intelligence test?
o What are the trends that could make the 21st century an age of Relationship Intelligence?
o Find out why What’s your price tag? may be the most important question you will ever ask your self!
Richard Panzer is an author, videographer, public speaker and developer of family life education programs. He has spoken to health educators, social workers, parents’ and community groups all over the U.S., and in Antigua, Montreal, Toronto, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Seoul, Sydney, Okinawa, Osaka, and Tokyo. He is the founder of the Free Teens, a character-based teen sexuality program, which exists in ten languages. This multimedia program is used in 38 states in the U.S.A., Canada, and 70 nations in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania Some of the groups Mr. Panzer has spoken to include: the Office of Surgeon General - Army HIV/AIDS Education/ Prevention Workshop, Atlanta, GA, and the Fifth Biennial AMEDD HIV/AIDS Symposium. During 1995-2001 he completed several speaking tours on AIDS prevention throughout Japan and trained more than 1500 lecturers there. Mr. Panzer has also spoken in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Antigua, West Indies, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. He has been interviewed on dozens of radio stations nationwide, the Standard News and USA Radio Networks and written letters published in the New York Times, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. His activities have been reported on in the Star-Ledger, Herald News, The Record, Miami Herald and other newspapers. Appeared on the nationally syndicated Newstalk Television show on teen pregnancies in 1996. Mr. Panzer is also the author of the RQ: Building Relationship Intelligence curriculum and Relationship Intelligence: why your RQ is more important to your success and happiness than your IQ. In a national evaluation by the Institute for American Values, the RQ curriculum was selected as one of the top three marriage curricula in the country, stating: "RQ provides a clear marriage vision, portraying marriage as the key to personal growth in love, intimacy, and sexual satisfaction." Another publication, Preventing Violence: why families are important, what they can do, was released in August, 2000. Other publications include: Condom Nation: Blind Faith, Bad Science, endorsed by Boston University President Emeritus John Silber, After the Sexual Revolution: the role of marriage in society and Sex and Love: teaching our children in the Age of AIDS multimedia presentations, a children’s book called Mommy, Daddy, Where Do Babies Come From? read by Dr. Laura Schlessinger on her! national radio program, and the Angels’ Bar & Grill audio CD.
He has spoken on several college campuses including Hofstra University, Mount St. Mary’s College, the State University of New York at New Paltz, Yale University, the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Maryland, and San Fransisco State University. A graduate of Yale University, Mr. Panzer is married and the father of 4 children. He has a Masters in Educational Communication and Technology from New York University and is currently a doctoral student there in the same field.
