There can be no doubt that the decline of a society or a nation is unextricably intertwined with the decline of the institution of the family in that society or nation.  The Christian community has been saying this for years, touting the much-maligned “family values.” Sadly, though, we are not leading by example. The divorce rate is currently higher among those who attend church than among those who do not.

CNN commentator Roland Martin has written a thoughtful piece on the importance of saving families to our culture, and his feeling is that couples must work at making their marriages work.  In other words, they have to see the importance of preserving their union for their sake, their children’s sake, and in a very real sense for the sake of our culture and our way of life. 

Americans are always good at touting an issue as a state of emergency in order to establish a sense of urgency. And there are any number that we could highlight — HIV/AIDS, gun violence, drug addiction — but one that should be added to the list is that of the divorce rate in this nation.

Various studies show that at least half of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce, and if you remarry, those figures grow exponentially. For some reason, Americans are either getting married for the wrong reasons or are not making the effort to spend more time working on their marriages to save them, and instead, run to divorce court at the first sign of trouble.

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