Living Life - Marriage and Family

 So I want to help you young adults desire to get married and have families, right? Well, this all starts with dating and preparing for marriage. I have felt in the past that marriage seems like more work. My view of marriage consists of two people that thought they were in love long ago, and are stuck together. It has been a big fear of mine to choose the wrong person to spend the rest of my life with. I am sure this is what many peoples fear as well. I have served a mission for my church. This is where I spen t 18 months in a different part of the world teaching others about what I believe in. As I spent this time with different kinds of people, I was able to observe different situations of marriage and family. Many things struck me as aspects of marriage and family that I want to implement IF I get married, and aspects that I will not have in my life. Some of my previous misconceptions of marriage are, marriage is a one-sided love, marriage is a big mess of miscommunication, be...

 This might be a controversial topic, but in this entry I will be discussing divine roles of men and women and how that builds families. I was reading a talk about how God loves us enough to have a perfect plan for us. I know this is true. Dallin H. Oaks says this about men and women, "Fundamental to us is God’s revelation that exaltation can be attained only through faithfulness to the covenants of an eternal marriage between a man and a woman. That divine doctrine is why we teach that “gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.” It is important for young adults to know that marriage and family is pure happiness. It is not only the way that God designed it, but I believe that marriage between a man and a women will bring the most happiness. When I didn't want anything to do with marriage or building a family of my own, I didn't truly understand the weight and importance marriage and family have. But, after lea...

 This week I want to talk about creating our own culture when we make our own families and lasting marriages. “The values of the family set the basic tone for the family foundation. They inspire the choice of mission as well as the foundation’s policies and practices. Typically, the values of the individuals who have created the family’s wealth predominate. Entrepreneurs with the single-mindedness and drive to amass fortunes often have powerful and compelling personalities to match. Not surprisingly, then, they shape foundations in their image and according to their values, philosophy, and preferred style of management—just as they did their business.”  My objective is to help young adults to get excited about building their own family culture. I have a friend who grew up in a difficult family situation. She is really excited about starting her own family to get away from the bad parts, the culture, and the rules that have been created. Why is it important to create our own fa...

 This entry will be about interaction theory and how that influences young adults and their perspectives on marriage.  In class this week we were invited to read a part of an article discussing family theories. One of the theories talked about was the interaction theory. Google defines interaction theory as, “Interactional theory, a key concept in sociology, emphasizes that individuals' behavior and social reality are shaped by their interactions with others. It suggests that society is not a predetermined structure but a product of the ongoing social interactions of individuals, who actively interpret and create meaning in their interactions.”  This is fascinating. Think about all the people you have come across. All of them have specific connections that make them who they are. I think of one of my sisters and how she differs from me even though we are very close in age. She and I grew up really close. We had mostly the same friends, experiences, and views on things. Fo...

This may be news to some. Families are being changed as time goes on! In my Family Relations class this week we talked a lot about research and how that affects our perception of what is right and wrong. We mainly talked about how things are changing from structured two-parent families to single-parent families, divorced families, same-sex couples as parents and all sorts of different combinations. I found this website with some statistics from the last 50 years. (https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/12/17/1-the-american-family-today/) "The share of children living in a two-parent household is at the lowest point in more than half a century: 69% are in this type of family arrangement today, compared with 73% in 2000 and 87% in 1960. And even children living with two parents are more likely to be experiencing a variety of family arrangements due to increases in divorce, remarriage, and cohabitation. Today, fully 62% of children live with two married parents – an all-time ...