Championing the Traditional Family

Here are some notes from an October Ensign article about the 2012  World Congress of Families held in Madrid, Spain.  You can read the article at:  

https://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/10/traditional-family-championed-at-world-congress?lang=eng&query=traditional+family+championed

Speaking about the rapid decline of the traditional family—father, mother, and children - Elder Kopischke said, ..."the solution includes promoting religious faith. “Not only do we need to rebuild trust in the value of marriage and family but also faith in God,” he said. “Religion plays a vital role when it comes to values, responsibility, and appropriate use of agency, which is our ability to make choices. Therefore, today I want to make a case for marriage and family, based and centered on a belief in God.”

Identifying marriage as part of the Judeo-Christian tradition, he cited Genesis 2:24, the commandment that a husband and wife “shall be one flesh.” He also quoted from “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” first presented by the Church in September 1995.

“A civilization and society can and will be only as strong as its families,” he said. “A family can and will only be as strong as the marriage on which it is based.”