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 be...

  Hey folks!      Today, I wanted to cover a question that I've been thinking a lot about lately. That question is: "What are the attributes of the best marriage?" I’ve been thinking a lot about this because I am trying to prepare for marriage myself and I want to be prepared to make it the best it can be. I'm sure many of you have been in the same situation and have wondered the same thing. I'd like to share some insights today that hopefully will help some of you who are feeling the same way.     When I originally thought about the perfect marriage, I would think about things like good communication, serving each other, being trustworthy, being honest, etc. These are all good things but looking at the thousands of marriages that end even with all of these aspects in place made me think a little more into it. I've come to a theory that a healthy marriage requires more than just the basics that everyone thinks about. It requires more than the natural course...

 I've been learning a lot about the current route family trends are heading in this day and age and its kind of blown my mind. The data that we have on population growth, fertility rates, and birth rates are pretty shocking! I feel like most people have no idea what is happening with these trends and why they matter so that's why I wanted to share a little bit about them with you know. I was definitely in the dark about this stuff for a long time, but knowing what I know now helps me see my role in the world concerning families. First things first, lets talk about population growth. Its been a big belief of mine that the population of the world is growing exponentially and there has always been a fear of overpopulation in my mind. In reality, the population is getting ready to start decreasing rapidly. The reason that many of us don't know about this is because the media usually portray the side of overpopulation when that really isn't the reality of the situation. The ...

 This blog is dedicated to discussing the family relationships that exist in the world and any benefits or problems those my create. The family is the most important social unit in the world and as such we should do everything we can to make it the best it can be. I hope to be able to inspire every reader to either start a family of their own in a healthy way or to strengthen the family relationships you already have. I am excited to hear your thoughts and learn along side you!