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        This non-profit, non-denominational, educational site offers clear, practical options for avoiding five hazards and building long-term, high-nurturance family relationships together. The site's goals are (a) publici-zing and breaking the toxic [wounds + unawareness] cycle, (b) preventing and reducing psychological wounds, and (c) reducing epidemic divorce.

        Links here will open summary-popup windows and hundreds of ex-perience-based articles and resources. This site is designed for (a) family adults and  their supporters, (b) mature students, and (c) human-service and media professionals.

       These 150+ Web articles and worksheets are based on professional research since 1979, including over 17,000 hours of clinical consultations with more than 1,000 typical Midwestern-U.S. adults and kids. These ma-terials are designed to alert, inform, motivate, and guide you, and are richly inter-linked.

        The materials here are meant to be downloaded and printed for non-profit offline use. Much of this site's content is now available in six related guidebooks. They are unique in personal growth and healing, communica-tion, and stepfamily genres. Study these basics, then the other founda-tion articles first. Other articles build on them.

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