Trent Law's Family Relations Blog

  It’s that time for another blog post, but sadly, this will be my last blog post for this semester. I am truly grateful for this amazing experience of sharing not only what I have learned from the class but also in sharing my personal experience with these various topics. In this week’s discussion, we talked about the reasons why divorce happens and the process of remarriage, and the experience of blended families. The concept of divorce from a church perspective is viewed in a negative light. As stated in the Family Proclamation, marriage is ordained of God between a man and a woman. Though we all will face hardships within marriage, we should do all we can to grow together as a couple rather than allow the relationship to weaken with time. The only reason divorce should be considered is when no other options seem to work. The least effective style of divorce is the no-fault divorce which states that no one needs to provide evidence of wrongdoing of the spouse. If couples simpl...

It’s that time again for another blog post. For this week, we learned about different areas that relate to parenting. Compared to any other job out there, parenting should be considered the most important job there is. The purposes of parenting are to help train the next generation to live effectively. Another way of putting it is to protect and prepare children to survive and thrive in the world in which they live. The videos that we watched relating to parenting focused on how we can effectively parent a teenager. When children are young they are usually good about following the rules that parents outline for them, but it is a different story for teenagers. Once children reach their teenage years their minds become active in engaging in risky behavior. One example of this was a video that showed a boy sneak out the window of his bedroom early in the morning and came home an hour later. Though he was able to sneak back into his room through the window, his parents came in upset with h...