The Success Sequence
April 24, 2024 | LiveFree Team
At Live Free we teach our students much more than the importance of waiting for sex. Our program focuses on the student as a whole person teaching them the importance of a future orientation – that decisions they make now will affect their future. We teach them how to spot unhealthy vs healthy relationships, the importance of setting goals and making decisions that align with those goals, and the importance of delaying self-gratification in order to achieve a goal.
This holistic approach sets students up for success in many areas from academics to healthy relationships to future career planning. Our program teaches the skills of the widely-known Success Sequence which states that if an individual does the following:
Graduates high school
Works full-time
Marries before having children
There is only a 3% chance of that person living in poverty versus a 53% chance if they choose to do none of these.
Following the Success Sequence is shown to be successful regardless of race or socio-economic background. “Only 9% of young men and women from lower-income families who follow the sequence are poor in their late twenties and early thirties compared to 31% who do not follow this sequence.”
At Live Free we discuss the benefits of marriage and teach that it is an attainable relationship. According to Success Sequence research, couples who marry before having children are twice as likely to avoid poverty as those who have children first. Also, studies show that couples that cohabitate are three times more likely to break up than married couples. Another astounding statistic: children that live with never-married parents are 143% more likely to live in poverty than those with married parents.
The benefits of Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) programs such as Live Free’s empower students to realize that their choices and decisions that they make now can have an overwhelming impact on their chances of a successful future.
Resource: https://weascend.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Poverty-Prevention-and-Success-Sequence.pdf