THE FAMILY-An Emergencyt Case!

What Is the Threat?

In many centuries some of the grounds for divorce are adultery, mental or physical cruelty, dessertion, alcoholism, impotence, insanity, bigamy and drug addiction.   However, a more general cause is that the fundamental attitude toward marriage and traditional family life has changed radically, especially during recent decades.  Respect for an institution long held sacred has eroded.  Greedy producers of music, motion pictures, TV soap operas and popular  literature have glorified so-called sexual freedom,immorality, loose conduct, and a self-centered life-style.  They have promoted a culture that has polluted the minds and hearts of young and old alike.

A 1996 poll showed that 22 percent  of Americans  say that an extramarital affair can sometimes be good for marriage.  A special issue of one of Sweden's biggest newspapers , Aftonbladet, urged women to get a divorce because "it can only be better"  some pop psychologists and anthropologists have even speculated that man is "programmed" by evolution to switch mates every few years.  In other words, they are suggesting that extramarital affairs and divorces are natural (NOT TRUE!!)  Some even argue that a parental divorce may be good for the children, preparing them to cope with their own divorce some day! (These are some sick, sick, stupid puppies)

Many youths no longer desire to live a traditional family life, with father, mother and children.  "I cannot imagine living my life with the same partner,"  is a popular view .  "Marriage is like Christmas, just a fairy tale.  I just don't believe in it," said an 18-year old Danish lad.;  "The feeling is, why bother to live with [men] and wash their socks," Noreen Byrne of the National Women's Council in Ireland declared.  (These thoughts are all instigated by Satan, to get people away from religion and what is actually natural, for men and women to be together as God intended)  "Just go out and play with them . . . A lot of women are deciding they don't need men in order to survive." 

Next time: One-Parent Households on the Increase

Watchtower, 1998