According to The Telegraph newspaper, Iain Duncan Smith said the government wants to instil 'basic concepts such as love, compassion and trust' in order to promote 'stable family'.
He also said health visitors would be trained how to 'recognise and respond to the signs of relationship difficulties', so children could have 'the best start in life'.
Bridie Collins, the Director of Relationship Support at the Christian charity Marriage Care, told Premier's News Hour: "They are the people in the front-line, so to speak. They're the people who meet the new mothers.
"The birth of a baby has quite an impact on the couples' relationship and the midwife is in the best place to pick that up.
"This has a huge impact, becoming parents, and it's normal to feel isolated or to feel you're drifting apart. But if you can get over that, things get better.
"It's difficult to talk about things not being okay in your relationship and it's difficult to hear it not knowing what to do.
"The whole idea would be to offer the training to health visitors so that they could recognise and respond to any signs or signals [of relational breakdown]."
The government says 48,000 couples have received relationships counselling, with another 160,000 couples receiving lessons on what difficulties they may face together in the future, since they took office in 2010.
Antenatal (pre-birth) professionals will also be given relationship guidance as well as health visitors.
