She suggests more flexible work schedules, social security and tax benefits for parents who stays home with children and classes for adolescents on how to make relationships work given by schools and churches. My next advice is to delay marriage or commitment until you have learned more about yourself. You should consider individual or group therapy to learn to resolve conflict without becoming terrified.'' I would add that when the person is considering marriage, do not test the relationship by living with a partner. St. Paul writes, ''Test everything. Hold onto the good.
Cohabitation embraces evil.
It also doesn't work. Marriages built on cohabitation fail at a 50 percent higher rate. Rather, test the relationship by going to a church that offers a premarital inventory which can predict with 80 percent accuracy who will divorce. Sadly, only 15 percent of churches give premarital inventories. Even fewer offer young couples an opportunity to talk through their issues with an older couple in a vital marriage.