Big Picture
"Think about this.
• Husbands - how many of you are working long hours, burning the midnight oil, trying to meet the expectations of providing a certain lifestyle your family expects?
• Wives - are you at the end of your rope without a knot, trying to meet the expectations the rest of the family places on you to be the cook, housekeeper, soccer mom, etc.?
• Parents - are you ever criticized and critiqued by your kids on why you are not better parents? Do they ever tell you that you expect too much out of them and they just can't be perfect?
• Kids - do you feel like your parents expect too much? Do you talk back to them, mouth-off and disobey them out of a sheer lack of respect?
"All we have to do is take a look at what has happened to the family over the last fifty years and know that the expectations of having one have been dashed and disappointed as we have seen a shocking breakdown of the family itself.
"To be honest a lot of the research and statistical data looks pretty grim. Since 1960 the divorce rate in our country has doubled. Single parent households have tripled. Couples living out of wedlock have quadrupled and couples living out of wedlock are now in the majority. Domestic violence has quadrupled. We have the highest teenage pregnancy rate of any developed nation in the world.
"Some of us today are in those statistics. Many of us today know the hurt, the headache and the heartache that comes when that perfect picture is broken. Some of us are sitting here saying, "We don't want it to ever happen again." The rest of us, who have not experienced a family breakup, want to make sure that it never happens to us. Hopefully, that is what this series is designed to do - to show you what a picture perfect family is in the eyes of God."
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Keywords: parents, children, family, wives, husbands, home
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