Family is Future

It is never a couple’s intention to end in a divorce when they are staring into each other’s eyes exchanging marital vows on their wedding day. Nevertheless, divorce does happen. If you are married and this is your first marriage, you have about a 35% chance that you will divorce the person you are married to. In 1970, divorce rates spiked as the No-Fault Divorce laws were put into place. These laws allow a divorce without anyone being at blame in the marriage. Prior to these laws, one of four things had to be happening in a marriage for a divorce to granted by a judge. They included: abuse, adultery, abandonment, and alcoholism. If one of these four things were not taking place prior to No-Fault laws, a divorce would not be granted. But now, thanks to those laws, the marriage bond is weaker and looked at as a more temporary set up. Today, couple could get a divorce granted simply on the grounds that they are tired of each other. People who divorce once are more likely to divorce aga...

One of my all-time favorite questions to ask on a date is "What form of punishment did you receive most as a child?" I've always just thought it was a funny question but now that I think about it there is a lot one could learn about someone from it. Such as, how wild of a child they were, or how their parents raised them. People often parent similar to the way they themselves were parented. Personally I was issued a time-out sentence more often than anything else. No parent goes home from the hospital with their first child and truly knows what they are doing. As a result every single person on Earth was raised differently than the rest. Throughout time various alternative parenting has been tried. Before WWI it was fairly common for well-off English households to employ a governess to help raise and educate the children. In Israel, a kibbutz was another form of raising and training children. Boarding schools, finishing schools, child care professionals for 70 years ...

In a world that continues to empower women and demean men, we are losing the importance of the male gender. Women are portrayed as more masculine and smart today than ever before. Men on the other hand are minimized and portrayed as more animalistic and unnecessary than ever before. The world highlights the optionality of fathers with things like sperm donors, government support programs for single mothers, at-work childcare, and the classic “everyone’s doing it” mentality. After all, if a woman wants to be a mother, why bother with the annoying accessory of a husband. However, this mentality is damaging for all touched by it. Good fathers are vital, not optional in the healthy development and supporting of a growing child and family.                 Good fathers are pivotal in a number of aspects. Daughters and sons understand better how a healthy romantic relationship should function with a father in the home...