Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Can this institution be saved?
When people think of couples on the verge of breakup they ask, "Can this marriage be saved?" There's a bigger question, however: "Can marriage be saved?"
Marriage is in trouble in the western world, assaulted by a fearful divorce rate, soaring cohabitation, sex and childbearing increasingly detached from wedlock, and now, thanks to gay activists, a fundamental redefining.
Not everybody is taking this lying down, though. Earlier this year, more than 3,000 people from round the world (including New Zealand), attended the 3rd World Marriage and Family Conference in Mexico. And a recent conference in Dallas, Texas, brought together almost 2,000 people for the eighth annual gathering organised by the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education. Researchers came, as did psychologists and therapists, pastors and church workers, social service providers, military chaplains, government officials.
Some important strategies are being formed, as this article outlines.
When people think of couples on the verge of breakup they ask, "Can this marriage be saved?" There's a bigger question, however: "Can marriage be saved?"
Marriage is in trouble in the western world, assaulted by a fearful divorce rate, soaring cohabitation, sex and childbearing increasingly detached from wedlock, and now, thanks to gay activists, a fundamental redefining.
Not everybody is taking this lying down, though. Earlier this year, more than 3,000 people from round the world (including New Zealand), attended the 3rd World Marriage and Family Conference in Mexico. And a recent conference in Dallas, Texas, brought together almost 2,000 people for the eighth annual gathering organised by the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education. Researchers came, as did psychologists and therapists, pastors and church workers, social service providers, military chaplains, government officials.
Some important strategies are being formed, as this article outlines.
