Why are marriages and families being attacked so heavily?

[Guest]

I plan to read over ALL these posts this week and really let it all sink in.

My family and marriage are both under heavy attack and it just breaks my heart to be going through such extreme trials and seeing what can happen to a family- .

Not All Your Family Is Under One Roof Dear Sister

[tsth]

I've been around more then I like to admit sometimes, but the family has been deteriorating for some time now. In the 50's, teens became more rebellious. In the 60's sex became more out in the open, drugs hit the streets, tv became the babysitter and women started to become "free". In the 70's, the father had to either have two jobs or a very good paying one, or both parents had to work in order to live a "decent" life and sex, drugs and rock n roll was the theme of the younger generation. The 80's brought in a different type of rebellion in how the electronics became more important, wages were higher as so did the price of everything go up, bringing on harder times. Factories started moving out of the north to the south for cheaper overhead costs, causing more stress on the families with new homes and more credit. Parents both worked and less time spent with the family. I think this is the decade where the word latch-key kids came from??? The 90's were a full blown with video games, third wave feminism, both parents working more demanding jobs, computers in every house and every other distraction. Both parents had jobs that may take them away from the home for extended periods of time. Kids took care of themselves as both parents worked later and later. Family closeness was all but gone. The 2000's are not over yet, but it truly has not gotten any better.

This is a secular view of what I personally have witnessed. There were more events during these times that can be added as a cause to the division of the family, but I listed what was on the top of my head. If you take each year, starting in the 50's, and add onto it the next decades issues, it stockpiles and the weight crushes the family more and more as time went on.

The attack is greed, vanity, pride, covetousness, and lust, all in the name of progress.

That's my quick take.

Dear OneLight,

I think that's a pretty good quick summation of it!

In His Love,

Suzanne