Adaptation

What's at issue

Faithful navigation of hardship while preserving the doctrinal ideal of marriage and family — disability, death, divorce, single parenthood, infertility, blended families, and other circumstances that require adaptation. The role of extended family and kinship networks in supplying support when the nuclear family faces difficulty.

Where it appears in the Proclamation

• Paragraph 7 — Marriage, Children & the Roles of Mothers and Fathers

Reading

• A Full Life Before Marriage
• Breaking a Pattern You Were Raised In
• Can I Build a Happy Family If My Own Parent Was Abusive?
• Grace and Truth: Holding a Teaching and a Person at the Same Time
• If I Can't Have Children, Will I Still Be a Parent in Eternity?
• If I Never Marry in This Life, Can I Still Have an Eternal Family?
• Infertility and the Promise of Parenthood
• Questions, Distortion, and Discernment
• Surrogacy and the Mother a Child Loses
• The Social Arithmetic of Family Breakdown
• What Does God Want Me Doing While I'm Single?
• A Latter-day Saint Woman's Story: I Wanted the Lord More Than That Life