Recently, I was driving home with my two kids and changed the station from their pig-tailed pop to my favorite R&B station. I got the tail end of an announcement about the pregnancy of a favorite songstress of mine and my kids. Before I could finish mumbling my usual everybody-loves-a-new-baby-coo, my 9-year old daughter asked, "Who is she married to?" As usual, my 5-year-old son repeated his sister's words. I explained to my kids that as far as I knew, she wasn't married. Both remained silent with a furrowed brow, then my son asked, "Well, how is she going to have a baby, Mommy?"

My children's lack of understanding prompted me to delve deeper into why people have babies before marriage--is it a sign of the "anything goes" times or the perpetual snapshot of a somewhat fractured family? 

God’s Couture 

By Dr. G

Most of you have heard the term "couture" in regards to the fashion industry. You have seen these beautiful one of a kind dresses on medels and celebrities. According to www.vintagetextile.com/ a couture dress could cost up to $90,000--(what tha???...for a dress--Really?!) A couture gown is one of a kind, specially made and often hand sewn...ladies, you are God's couture.

How to Stay Happily Married With Children

By Bonnie Foshee 

Keeping your marriage alive is very important for having a happy and healthy family. You need to work on your marriage as well as having family time. Do you know the happy marriage recipe?Raising a family can be challenging and stressful at times. However, the common goals and emotional, financial, and physical investments made can be a common bond between husband and wife. One that compliments their marriage relationship.

Hide and Go Seek

By NuLife4Ric

I've been divorced now for over five years and my ex-wife continues to limit my access to our children. Ever since the day the divorce process started, my ex has played a perverse form of hide-and-go-seek-the-children; clearly it's not a game I wish to play. I'm sure many of you are wondering what did I do to my ex-wife to deserve this kind of treatment. Here's where I take issue with the common assumption that one ex did something to the other ex to prompt mistreatment.

The 1st Annual Bliss Expo

We invite you to come and be part of the 1st Annual Bliss Expo on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at the Covenant Glen United Methodist Church in Missouri City, Texas.

Bliss Expo is about finding contentment in your stage in life. It’s for the empowered single woman who is looking, the newly engaged and her fiancé, the couple married for one year or more than 20 years, and even the divorced person open to finding love again.

According to studies published in a recent article on divorce360.com:

• 70 percent of black women’s first marriages will end in divorce.

• 32 percent of African-American couples divorce.

• Marriage results in important benefits for black children.  

• Marriage is definitely beneficial for male children.

• Marriage improves the economic, social and psychological well-being of African-American men and women.

• Black children appear to benefit more from marriage of their parents than white children.

The event is designed to engage, educate, and empower the individual spirit in order to support and improve the state of African-American relationships, ultimately strengthening the black family.

Registration begins September 6, 2010.

Thank you for visiting the Bliss Expo page.