Researching the Family

We had an assignment this past week that had us research any topic about marriage or family for two hours.  This was a very interesting assignment because there are so many views now a days what the family exactly is and what makes a family. I had no exact subject that I wanted to research and so I just went into the google search bar and typed in "Marriage and trends".  It brought up many different sites that I was able to go through but the most interesting one that I found was one that brought me to the United Nations page with a study on the trends in the world.  I was surprised that all of the topics were the ones that we had talked in the previous class.  These trends ranged from birth rate, premarital sex age, divorce, cohabitation and many more.  I was amazed at seeing the research that had been done all over the world.  It was crazy to see that now a days more and more people are just living together and they are not getting married,  the ages that people are getting married are getting older and older.  What some people do not realize about this is that this affects all of the other trends.  For example, if you are getting married a lot later chances are that you don't want to have children already, so that means that the birth rate will go down because the longer a woman waits to get pregnant the more issues she could have.  I have my own opinions and beliefs of course and so does the rest of the world, but I believe that the Lord has created us so that we could come and have families of our own and bring children into the world. I am so thankful for that opportunity and the beliefs that I have been able to gain for myself by being here on earth.