Marriage has been compared to an “old-time rail journey.”   What can help improve the marriage and family journey?  A document introduced by President Gordon B. Hinckley in September 1995 can be a major factor in improving marriages and families.  This document is “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.”

President Hinckley stated, “Why do we have this proclamation on the family now?  Because the family is under attack.  All across the world families are falling apart.  The place to begin to improve society is in the home…We are trying to make the world better by making the family stronger.”   

How can this document help marriages and families?  The Proclamation explains our eternal roles as males and females. The Proclamation gives clear direction that “marriage is ordained of God.”  It tells us to base our marriages and families on the “teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.”  It explains the role of husband and wife and mother and father.  It clearly states principles that will help to establish and maintain successful marriages and families.  It also explains our responsibility to our communities and nations to “promote” laws that will support marriage and family so that others will benefit, too.  

Do you want to improve your marriage and family rail journey?  Get a copy of the “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.”  Read this divinely inspired document and apply the teachings in your marriage and family and surely the journey will improve.