Marriage and Family Archive
(Note: The following section may contain links to external Web sites. Referrals to sites not produced by Focus on the Family are for informational purposes only, and do not constitute an endorsement of the sites' content.)Evangelicals who attend church regularly divorce at a rate 35 percent lower than secular couples.
A Focus on the Family analysis of family formation trends affecting American adults and children, including rates of divorce and cohabitation, and the cultural emphasis on adult wishes which neglect children's needs for a mother and a father.
Dr James Dobson present eleven key arguments against same-sex marriage.
Marriage is a sacred, legal, and social union ordained by God to be a life-long, sexually exclusive relationship between one man and one woman.
To be concerned with proper child development is to be concerned about making sure that children have daily access to the different and complementary ways mothers and fathers parent.
It's a statistic we hear regularly, but is it true?
An excellent article showing marriage is much more than emotional feelings between two people.
the Weekly Standard
Fathers parent differently from mothers and that difference matters greatly for children.
In Massachusetts, you won’t find the words “husband” and “wife” on marriage applications. Clerks of the court performing marriages are instructed to use “party A” and “party B” instead.
The following resources can be utilized in equipping individuals to intelligently answer the same-sex family proposal and defend natural marriage.
Is marriage an old-fashioned, outmoded institution? Is it merely a piece of paper, having no real impact on our lives?
Marriage, one of the most fundamental human institutions, is dying in many nations due to three developments.
Does your marriage really matter to your children? Research says it does!
Same-sex marriage deconstructs our understanding of humanity.
What did no-fault divorce contribute and what can it teach us about the same-sex marriage experiment?
Two respected researchers have published studies on divorce's effect on children. Only one looked deep enough to see the pain.
Fathers strengthen families, which in turn bolsters our culture and beyond. Dr. Ken Canfield started this organization in response to the dramatic generational trend toward fatherlessness.
National Center for Fathering
Part 3 of intentional fatherhood series: There's no supply depot for formulas and cookie cutters.
Part 1 in the intentional fatherhood series: Beyond the material provisions, too many parents are acting as nonparents.
Part 2 of intentional fatherhood series: Taking parental inventory regarding the shape of my child.
Focus on the Family believes one of the most important responsibilities one generation has to the next is to leave it a stable national economy.
For too long, Carlson and Mero say, traditionalists have been more divided by distractions than united in defending their common base: the natural family — married mom and dad, with children — as society's bedrock.
The same-sex marriage proponents would have us denounce most blacks as bigots.
Report by US Department of Health and Human Services indicates that married adults are healthier than other adults.
