The purpose of this blog is to share with the world everything that I have been learning about the family in my Family Relations class. Recently we've been going over the different things happening to the family.
Basically, here is what I have learned:

Family trends are looking bleak. I am fearful about the way the world is looking, I don't want to raise a child in a world that is digressing so rapidly. For the most part, the really good and extensive research that people come up with on how to create successful families corresponds quite nicely with the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints and the council of the living prophets and apostles. I think that we, as church members, are a little ahead of the game.  Although, my point is that we are not only extremely lucky to be able to know so much about raising effective and healthy families but we are also responsible for actually doing our best to follow the council we are given and to share it with others. Thus, I am sharing it.

Some of the family trends that we are seeing are an increase in cohabitation, an increase of people being motivated by self-interest, an increase of premarital sexual relations, an increase of mothers working outside the home, an increase of the age at which people decide to marry, and a decrease of the number of children being born.
There are a few European countries that don't even have a replacement birthrate. What happens when everyone dies? I'm not only saying that we should all have more babies, I am saying that we need to combat these family trends and start encouraging people to marry younger so they will be able to have children, decide not to live together or have sex before marriage so that their marriages will have a better chance of succeeding, raise children the way that God has intended, and care deeply about the family, not only yours but every family around you.

I am calling for a family revolution! I want to see the world change, although I have little hope that it will.

When we are more focused on the things that really matter to us in our lives, we will be able to deal with the rest. Never forget that the family is the essential unit in society. Everything starts with family and everything will end there. Our lives are our families, so live them well.