Daily HealthBeat Tip

Learning marriage

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.

Between you and your computer, you can get a lot of embarrassing questions answered. Let's say there's trouble in your marriage. You can look up advice on the Web. Nobody needs to know.

But can you tell which advice is good? HHS' Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Wade Horn, advises choosing authorities, such as HHS' Healthy Marriage Initiative.

"It's really important to look behind every Web site to make sure that what information they have up there is in fact reflective of what experts in the field say.'' (nine seconds)

Horn says some people shouldn't stop there:

"When you're basically talking about situations where a little bit of knowledge can help people, that's going to be fine. But if you feel your marriage is in trouble, a Web site's not going to substitute for counseling or marriage education.'' (12 seconds)

Learn more at www.hhs.gov.

HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm Ira Dreyfuss.

Last revised: July 3, 2006

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