Modern family trends
Times are changing and traditions are being thrown out the
window, including the traditional family. Lots of people are participating in
this trend of the “modern family”. When I say modern family, I’m not talking
about the tv show on ABC, I’m talking about families that don’t have the traditional
mother and father figures. Families that choose to only have one or two kids,
or even the family that never happens because marriage is not “necessary”. In today’s post I’m going to be talking about the
importance of the traditional family.
Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, I believe in the importance of family. Our purpose on
this earth is to multiply and replenish the earth. “We declare that God’s
commandment for His children to multiply and replenish the earth remains in
force” (The Family: A Proclamation to the World). We are on this earth to have
children and to teach them about the gospel. Children are gifts from God and
people are choosing to not have them because it isn’t cool, and it isn’t popular.
Studies show that people are having less and less children every year. Women
are deciding to put their career above family and have children in their
thirties if they have children at all. If this trend continues there will not
be enough workers in the world to support the population and the economy.
More trends that are influencing the
traditional family are that people think it is normal for children to be raised
in a non-mother/ father relationship. Most people think children are not
affected from growing up in a home where there isn’t a mom and a dad. Research
has shown that children who are raised in a home with a mother and a father are
more successful in life. Research has also shown that children raised in a home
with gay/lesbian parents are more likely to go into drugs, alcohol, and are
less likely to get an education. This trend of a non-traditional family is
growing and starting to take effect and causing kids to have anxiety,
depression, acting out in anger and many other things. Children need the support
of a loving mother and father figure in their lives. There are things that a
father can do, and a mother can’t and there are things that a mother can do
that a father can’t. In The Family: A Proclamation to the World, it says “The
family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His
eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and
to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity.
Happiness in the family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon
the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ”. A traditional family is a part of his
plan. I know that some families don’t choose the situation that they are in,
including death of a spouse and or they cannot have kids due to medical reasons.
After all, it is between you, your spouse and God to tell you how many kids you
should have. It is not up to the trends of the world. Times will change and
traditions will change but the tradition of family should never change.
I hope you enjoyed what I had to say on this
topic. Feel free to comment and follow my blog so you can read about more
topics like this. Also go check out my classmates’ blogs. They will be putting
their opinion on the same topics. They are all linked on my blog under the
picture of me! Thanks for reading and I will see you in the next one, bye!
