Amen.
I would add that it’s not “divorce” that has destroyed families, but feminism.
Women have been sold a lie for the last 30 or 40 years that they don’t need men or a family in order to be fulfilled. It’s rubbish.
If a young man wants to marry and have a long-lasting relationship, he needs to find a woman who has rejected Oprah and Lifetime Network and has embraced God as her role model.
You are partly right. In my opinion, I think there are several causes of marriage and family breakups.
One has to do with, as I said before, the pressure to marry. We often jump into marriages that should never have been. We also have a cavalier attitude toward marriage — if it doesn’t work out, we’ll get divorced, find someone else, etc. People often don’t want to do whatever it takes to make the marriage work and to raise healthy, well adjusted children.
My father in his early days was a drunk. Mom finally one day told him basically to shape up or ship out. This was a gutsy move on her part. Mom was a very devout Catholic and as such, would not divorce him. She also had a ninth grade education, so if Dad called her bluff, she would have had a difficult time supporting herself and my brother (I wasn’t born yet). Fortunately, Dad wised up. He stopped drinking and from then on, he became a good and responsible husband and father. And Mom and Dad were a team. Whatever had to be done, they usually worked together. They were good parents — tough when they had to be, but most of the time, loving and supportive. They made a lot of sacrifices for each other and for us children.
I would have liked to have had a marriage like theirs, but I’m not sure that’s possible in this day and age of no commitment, anything goes, no responsibility, etc. etc.
Yeah, she'll run off with the Deacon like my ex did.