The need to stabilize the family and strengthen the home is voiced at virtually every level in our society. Voices of concern cry out from poverty areas. As families collapse, gangs provide a place to belong and a group to care. The number of people who want an enduring marriage is increasing, but the divorce rate remains steady. The cohabitation rate is soaring.
Many adults are afraid of marriage.
As a direct result, new religious movements devote themselves to our national family crisis. Each of us express genuine concern for our own specific religious context. Within our own congregations, troubled marriages and broken homes document the crisis and the need. We could decide to address this crisis by being mutually supportive and collectively active. We could decide collectively to attack the problem.