Volumes of research demonstrate beyond doubt the positive contribution that intact, stable marriages make to the wellbeing of children and society. Marriage is the key. Australia needs to invest in it now if it is to deliver the best opportunities for its children in the future.

The inaugural National Marriage Day celebration will highlight the unique benefits of marriage and seek to lay the foundations for a renewed culture of marriage within our nation.

The National Marriage Day Breakfast has been made possible through the generosity and support of many organisations and individuals too numerous to mention, who with a common vision, seek to cultivate within society an appreciation that the integrity and well-being of the family, based on marriage, is essential to the stability, morale, security and prosperity of the Australian nation.

So come to the National Marriage Day Breakfast and join dignitaries, academics, public figures and the marriage movement in calling for on 13 August 2009 to be dedicated as National Marriage Day.

Help put the spotlight on marriage. Let’s celebrate:

The keynote speaker will be Dr. James Bogle from the United Kingdom (TD, M.A., AClarb. Barrister, author broadcaster, historian, lieutenant-colonel, and pro-marriage advocate).

FOR FURTHER ENQUIRIES:

The Secretary, National Marriage Day Committee
PO Box 1093, Young, NSW, 2594
P: 03 9326 5757  F: 03 9328 2877
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OTHER FORMS FOR DOWNLOAD:

• Petition for 13 August 2009 to be National Marriage Day

• Sponsorship & Supporters' Pledge Form 
  

Fundamental to the position of the National Marriage Day Committee is the definition of marriage as defined in the Marriage Act 1961 (amendment 2004) which defines marriage as “the union of a man and a woman, to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY:

The family is the fundamental unit of society being composed essentially of a father, mother and children; in the wider but still necessary relationship of grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles; a kinship group of human beings linked by ties of blood, marriage and adoption, structured to bear and rear children, to care for the young, the sick and the aged and other human needs.