"One hundred years ago, President Joseph F. Smith connected happiness directly to the family and admonished us to focus our efforts there. He said: “There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home. … There is no happiness without service, and there is no service greater than that which converts the home into a divine institution, and which promotes and preserves family life. … The home is what needs reforming”
(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith [1998], 382, 384).
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So the bad news is that family breakdown is causing a host of societal and economic ills. But the good news is that, like any cause and effect, those ills can be reversed if what is causing them is changed. Inequities are resolved by living correct principles and values.
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the most important cause of our lifetime is our families.
If we will devote ourselves to this cause, we will improve every other aspect of our lives
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1- prioritize. Put everything you do outside the home in subjection to and in support of what happens inside your home.
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2- do things in the right order! Marriage first and then family.
No career can bring you as much fulfillment as rearing a family.
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3- husbands and wives, you should be equal partners in your marriage.
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4- use the family resources of the Church
"...the Church is the scaffolding with which we build eternal families"
(see Teachings: Harold B. Lee, 148).
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