Marriage, Divorce, Children: American Life Proves Skeptics Wrong

We have built our last 10yrs around other people’s marriages. Really taking an interest in couples fighting for their marriages and really helping parents understand that marriage has to be compartmentalized. There needs to be time for family, time for yourself, time for each other and time for children. And all of these compartments should grow and mature together in healthy ways that contribute to what we call the “core” (husband, wife, children). When we get to a place where we really believe that you cannot have one without the other, then the divorce rates will fall even lower. This article does a good job at rendering a synopsis of what the core can be and how this generation has started to look at the “family unit” differently, but it is truly up to the couple to really make some strong declarations that are committed to the “ for better or worse,”  “until death do us apart,” or “ not allowing my children to grow up with only one parent”. This of course does not nor has it ever included abuse. Yes, many of us grew up with or had a friend whose parents were either abusive to each other and or their children and stayed because of how it “looked” to the Joneses. You never have to stay in an abusive relationship so that your children can have two parents, remember the “core” is always HEALTHY and growing in HEALTHY ways.

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