Lessons from the divorce generation
By By Penna Dexter
May 6, 2008
A recent Newsweek cover story, entitled The Divorce Generation Grows Up, chronicles the history of divorce by spotlighting a middle class suburban community. A generation ago, learning that someone was divorced was still a bit shocking. No longer. Back then, divorcing parents reasoned that a split was better for children than conflict in the home. Today, that’s a tough case to make.
Newsweek’s David Jefferson used a captivating device to write his story. He interviewed several of his classmates at Ulysses S. Grant High School in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley to see how the class of ’82 had been affected by divorce.
The divorce rate in 1982 was more than double that of the 1950s. It had grown in the fertile ground tilled by the feminists’ message that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Then, in …
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Covenant Marriage
By Lee Yancey
Last year, Americans witnessed a national movement to legalize gay marriage, civil unions, and the overall homosexual agenda. Recently, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, a Republican, signed into law a bill that recognized same-sex civil unions. Civil unions are basically marriage without the name. According to a Baptist Press article, Connecticut joins Vermont as the only states to legalize civil unions. Massachusetts is still the only state with same-sex marriage, but the laws in Massachusetts and Vermont were court-ordered while the Connecticut bill was passed voluntarily. In response to the push for homosexual marriage, last November, 86% of Mississippi voters approved the Mississippi Marriage Amendment. Mississippi was one of eleven states from coast to coast who banned gay marriage.
Studies have shown that the divorce rate among Christians is the same as that of non-Christians. With traditional marriage failing, we must take steps to strengthen it. Marriage has …
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Family Matters!
The minister said to a young couple on their wedding day, “Man fell but marriage did not. Whatever God intended marriage to be then he intends for marriage to be now.” Does it not appear that the home and marriage have drifted far from God’s original intent? The Bible says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24 NIV). “The family is an institution that God crafted. Scripture says very plainly that it starts with a husband and a wife and includes their children. The family is the essential center of culture and society; it’s where culture and society have their origins. The core of a solid family is marriage founded in the rock that is Jesus Christ.” (Richard Land, Faith & Family)
Dr Fred Lowery, in Covenant Marriage, gives us …
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