Why is marriage and family important and desirable? - Stuttgart, Germany

Why is marriage and family important and desirable? Stuttgart, Germany, 16. October 2016 personality development. This understanding throws a lot of doubt on the current policy of entrusting the care of children under the age of three to strangers in nurseries. New scientific research, introduced by Sue Johnson in her book „Love Sense“, ques- tions many assumptions about the nature of humans and the course of love rela- tionships. She comes to the conclusion that human beings are happiest in monoga- mous, lasting partner relationships. This is what Johnson has to say:

 Our first and foremost instinct is neither sex nor aggression, but the search for contact and the reassurance of bonding.  Romantic love between adults is one as a manual where we can find a life of based on a bond of affection, just as happiness in marriage and the family and be-tween mother and child. perhaps the impulse to initiate a cultural  Passionate sex does not lead to a stable counter revolution? love relationship, but rather stable at- Mrs. Piepenburg addressed these questions tachment leads to passionate sex and under three headings: also to lasting love.  Emotional dependence is neither 1. Sexual liberation‘and the question immature nor pathological. It is our about human nature greatest strength.  We can only bring out our best when As well as positive developments, such as we feel deeply connected to someone. By Christiann Hausmann overcoming unnatural inhibitions, shame

U ‘Splendid isolation’ is something for PF Stuttgart dedicated its October and feelings of guilt, there are also planets, not for people. meeting to the topic of marriage negative effects such as the marketing of  Our nature is not egoistic, but and the family because it is a sex as a commodity, as is found in the empathetic. Feelings for others are topic of current interest. media, pornography and prostitution. inborn. More precisely we considered the And beyond this, the natural man-woman question: Why is marriage and family relationship is being threatened by the 3. The spiritual dimension and the important and desirable? Or should we introduction of the scientifically unproven meaning of love rather say: is this still the case? Is it gender ideology, supported by public In the last part of her presentation, Mrs. outdated to support and protect a model of funding and propagated in universities and Piepenburg spoke about life after death the family that is based on one man and school curricula. The absurd preliminary and the meaning of love when, for one woman, as an-chored in article 6 of climax of this development is the example our partner is no longer German Constitutional Law? Or has our propagation of ‚polyamory‘as a type of physically alive, and illustrated this with society long since de-veloped in a love rela-tionship between three or more reports from those who have had near- direction that no longer considers this people, given a standing equal to that of death experiences. reasonable but rather as anti-quated and traditional marriage and family. restricting? Mrs. Piepenburg ended her presentation 2. Research on attachment and its with the statement that the purpose of life Even as supporters of the family, we is to come close to God by learning cannot deny that it is not easy to establish a contribution to the interpretation of marriage and family unconditional love. Hence the family has a partnership and to educate children in this fixed place and goal, also in modern time of secularization and changing val- An understanding of the new, and society, as the highest school of love. ues. Besides influences from changes in unfortunately too little regarded research culture, economy and technology, on at-tachment based on the theory of the One of the main concerns of the Universal individu-alistic ideas of self-fulfillment English psychiatrist John Bowlby, was Peace Federation and the World Peace have proliferated and there have been present-ed according to a summary and Blessings that it organizes, is to rediscover shifts in sexual morality that question and interpretation of psychologist and couple this meaning; to establish it as the new modify the institution of marriage and the therapist, Sue Johnson. Attachment theory mainstream in society, and to make a family and its traditional, Christian based states that the better the child’s emotional contribution by realizing these ideals. values. needs are satisfied by its primary Where can we find help and orientation in attachment figure, the more secure is its these difficult times? Is there such a thing attachment and the later autonomy and