Good marriages and strong families are joys, but they don't just happen on their own. Dr.R.C.Adams, who studied thousands of marriages over a ten-year period, foun that only 17 percent of the unions he studied could be considered truly happy. And Jarle Brors, former director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Relations in Washington, D.C., said "We are finally realizing that we have to go back to the basics in order to restablish the type of families that give us the type of security that children can grow up in." If we want to have solid families and healthy marriages, we have to work hard to create them.
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