{"id":1255,"date":"2010-01-12T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"603370269"},"modified":"2010-01-12T07:25:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:25:17","slug":"so-goes-marriage-so-goes-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/so-goes-marriage-so-goes-america\/","title":{"rendered":"So Goes Marriage, So Goes America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/BrokenMarriage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"154\" \/>I read a statistic the other day that shocked me.\u00a0 That is, in 1930 over 84% of all Americans were married.\u00a0 But today, the number of married people has dropped to below 50%.<\/p>\n<p>This is shocking.\u00a0 I am amazed that no one is taking up the banner and waving the flag, because t<strong>he crisis of marriage in America is the greatest predictor of our future<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here is the truth: as marriage goes, so goes any society \u2013 including our own.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage is important.\u00a0 It\u2019s key and core.\u00a0 The Scriptures open with a marriage and close with a marriage.\u00a0 And everything in between is teaching us to live in families.\u00a0 And the family is created first of all, when a man and a woman come together in the covenant of marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We must raise the value of our marriages.<\/strong> Men must understand that <em>there is no success without succeeding first at home<\/em>.\u00a0 Men in America must understand that their highest goal as a husband is to help their wives and children reach their greatest potential.\u00a0 My greatest success is not in the marketplace, but in my home.\u00a0 And out of that success extends everything else I have to offer the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re thinking about ending your marriage, don\u2019t. <\/strong> It can be fixed.\u00a0 There is always hope.\u00a0 But you give up that hope the day you decide to opt for divorce rather than fight for the most precious thing you\u2019ll ever have, and that is your marriage relationship.\u00a0 Do everything you can to keep it together because divorce is not only the quickest way to destroy your life, it\u2019s also the number one creator of poverty in our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a statistic the other day that shocked me.\u00a0 That is, in 1930 over 84% of all Americans were married.\u00a0 But today, the number of married people has dropped to below 50%. This is shocking.\u00a0 I am amazed that no one is taking up the banner and waving the flag, because the crisis of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/so-goes-marriage-so-goes-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Goes Marriage, So Goes America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}