Strengthen The Family

I’ve recently come across some new information about marriage. The things that I noted were what causes divorce, generally, and what makes up a strong marriage that lasts. Obviously we all want a marriage that lasts and so I hope to be able to shed some light on how that's possible. First I’d like to talk about the reasons for divorce. You can attribute divorce to a decrease in marital satisfaction throughout the course of a marriage, but what causes this drop in marital satisfaction in divorced couples? Well, research shows that having children is a major factor in decreasing marital satisfaction. This fact threw me off when I first saw the data because I personally can’t wait to start a family and have kids and I always thought that would be the happiest time in my life and that it would cause me to love my wife even more. After looking into the reasons for dissatisfaction, I realized it makes a lot of sense. In many marriages, when the first kid comes around, the parents tend to

Today I would like to share a little about love and what it is. Love can be a very confusing, misunderstood, hard to recognize, and often misinterpreted thing. I’m going to cover the different kinds of love we feel as human beings. My source for the information that I’m about to share comes from a book called “Marriage and Family: The Quest for Intimacy” by Robert Lauer. In this book he explains the different types of love that we can feel. The first type is called “Storge” which is the kind of love that exists between a parent and their children. This kind of love is the least discriminatory because it can exist despite any physical, mental, or emotional maladies an individual may have. This love is not fueled by attraction like other kinds of love are. The next kind of love is “Philia” which is the love that exists between friends. This love is something that, as Lauer states, the Greeks held to be the most high form of love. I think this is something that is definitely lacking in th

I've done some studying on same-sex attraction recently trying to understand more about why it happens and what the effects are. I have close family that are gay and I have never fully understood much about it until I did this research. My mind has been opened significantly and I hope that I can share some of his enlightenment with you. I would first like to address the causes of same-sex attraction and then talk about the fluidity of sexual orientation. There are many different explanations that I had heard throughout my life as to why some people are gay, but the most common explanation is that they were just born that way. It's just some kind of difference in genetics. This is the view that, I believe, has been adopted my the majority of the world today. The reasons this explanation may have surfaced could be because there are so many differences between gay individuals and their stories that it's difficult to say that the attraction was learned in life. This is understa

 Today, I wanted to write a little bit about the different family structures that exist in our day and age and the effect that they have on the members of those families, specifically the children. There is a really well produced study about these differences that are displayed on http://www.familystructurestudies.com/. This study covers the intact biological family or IBF(father and mother in the home), lesbian parents, gay parents, single parents, adopted children, divorced parents, and step-parent families. There is a long list of different variables that were analyzed and I would like to discuss a few of them and how they differ between the different family structures. My goal is to use this data to express the most effective type of family structure concerning the effects they have on the children. The results in this study were gathered from young adults concerning the families they grew up in. The first variable I would like to discuss is the different levels of education betwee