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To avoid marrying a jerk, singles educators say you should stay out of bed on the first date and cross-examine your partner. Critics say their advice is hokum.
  • Unfortuately, programs such as these needed more now than previously.

    In the past, social situations were more easily deciphered than they are today. Now there's a lot of weirdness, and a lot of weird people, floating around on top of an unstable reality. Anything that provides people with basic information, particularly in the areas of human relationships and of money management, might save listeners a ton of grief and wasted time. For example, in relationships, make sure you're friends first and foremost. In matters of money, pay what you owe on time, and put away $5 every day in a savings account. There should in fact be some required courses in high schools on human relationship and money management tried and true dos and donts.