The Main Foundation Of A Strong Family - Yasmin Mogahed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cfZ6bKMrM

"And I want to make another very important point because I believe a lot of our families have fallen apart because of losing this one concept and that is that I believe that a lot of our families once children come into the equation, the...the foundation of the family no longer becomes the marriage and it becomes the children and that's actually a mistake. The foundation of a family IS THE MARRIAGE and when the marriage is strong, the family is strong but when we start to shift that focus and instead we give precedence and we and we in fact do injustice to the marriage for the sake of the children - when we do that, we are actually harming the children and the marriage and the family and so what we have to do from the very beginning is understand that THE FOUNDATION OF A STRONG FAMILY is a STRONG MARRIAGE and this idea that investing in your marriage is being selfish needs to be removed; that people need to go back to investing in their relationship and they need to stop making the entire focal point the children. That becomes unhealthy not only to the children but even to the marriage and the family itself."  Yasmin Mogahed