Family Trouble
The North American Mission Board gives the following statistics:
Today, half of all first marriages end in divorce.
Families are changing in size and relationships. The family structure is shifting so that intergenerational families will become the norm.
Abortion is now the sixth most common cause of maternal death.
More than 80 percent of all violent juvenile offenders are the products of broken homes.
Forty-two percent of American children are being raised in single parent homes.
More than four out of five kids (82%) have had sexual relations with a member of the opposite sex by the age of 19.
The church, and the church alone, is the only institution that still waves the banner of traditional family morality; however, as wonderful as our message is, we are not doing a good enough job of getting that message out. We must pray for God’s wisdom in this area of ministry.
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