Twenty-first Century Challenge

Did you happen to read this blog on March 14, 2014, "One Teenager, Two Years?"  It described my grandparents on my father's side of the family.  Before my grandfather, age 49,  married my grandmother, age 18, he was married and had two daughters.  Also, grandpa was married after grandma left him, for a total of three wives.

Probably for several millions of years, men expected that they would have several wives with children by each of them because so many women died in childbirth.  Now, praise God, the number of women dying in childbirth is extremely low.  And, of course, due to antibiotics and other medical advances, we are living longer than ever before.

Yet we seem to have the pattern of previous generations of men having several wives and children by each.  What is different?  Now the women are living longer and having several husbands!  Here is our challenge:  marry wisely, marry once!  What would it take?  Can we do it?  What would be the rewards?  WILL we do it?

There are signs this wisdom may be in humanity's future: young people see the tragic effects of their parents' divorces and are marrying at older ages, most of them.  They want to be married only once.  They want their children to be raised by both parents.

What else can we do to encourage this?  We can clean up our media!  Earlier today, I heard on the news that fully 60% of Americans are heavily invested in internet pornography!  Surely, we can have greater aspirations than to give away our souls to depravity!!  For one thing, we can encourage parents to take greater supervision of their children's use of the internet on computer and on their phones.  Children will not monitor themselves!  You know what to do about 'dirty' TV shows and movies: do not buy the advertised products.  And let's support all the 'clean' entertainment!

The institution of marriage must be nurtured and encouraged, for a civilized society! Viva Marriage!

Dear God, we pray for your help again, this time, to help us each do what we can for decency in our society.  We were once so full of promise for a great nation, let our promises not be empty!