Campaigns for Awareness
Starting an advocacy campaign is one of the best strategies in order to be able to create support for policies and proposals. The establishment of advocacy campaigns will be able to positively affect everyone, taking into consideration the benefits and advantages that marriage can bring to individuals and to the whole society.
According to Eric Swanson (2012), most people think that there are only 5 to 40 percent of happily married couples, but researchers at the University of Chicago have proved them wrong. Since 1973, the researchers at the University of Chicago have been conducting a study called “Trends in Well-Being”, which includes trends in General Happiness, Financial Satisfaction, Satisfaction with Work and
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The main goal of the marriage advocacy campaign is to inform the people of the importance of marriage, such as its effect to one’s lifestyle. As stated in the previous paragraph, almost 97 percent of the married couples said that they were very happy about their marriage. According to Mercola (2015), being happy can lead one to a healthy lifestyle. Not only does happiness positively affect one’s habits, such as eating healthier and exercising more, happiness also brings distinct changes to one’s body like strengthening one’s immune system, boosting positive emotions and decreasing pain and chronic …show more content…
It can affect not only the married couple positively, but also the people around them such as children. This is why advocacy campaigns regarding marriage should be established.
Married individuals receive a lot of benefits from society because they are favored by society and the church. This is because of the married individuals’ role that is to take care of the community’s basic unit, which is the family. Additionally, the church and the government favor marriage for it aligns with what they both want, to procreate and to prolong society. Because of the different benefits that they receive, it is easier for them to attain advancement in their personal and professional lives - they tend to go farther into society compared to the unmarried. It was also said in certain reports that they are more satisfied with their lives than the unmarried. Majority of the married are also stable with regards to their financial state.
Advocacy campaigns regarding the benefits of marriage should be established to shed light on the benefits that married individuals receive physically, mentally, and financially, let people give importance to married individuals and marriage itself, and recognize the contribution and help of married couples to