Marriage: Covenant or Simple Contract?

Some interesting things I learned in my Family Relations class:

Covenant: a superior party draws up the contract and you accept the contact or not. There would be benefits to keeping it and consequences for not. It requires each person to keep their individual contract to the superior party.

Contract: is simply a written or spoken agreement between husband and wife and there are no longer penalties.

This difference results in an "easier" divorce and causes people to treat marriage differently. Alos, marriage is more uncertain. Marriage is already an act of faith, but now there are more factors that can cause divorce. As a result, many men and women aren't fully preparing for marriage, they're preparing for the "just in case" of divorce.

President Spencer W. Kimball said:

"Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects, for it has to do not only with immediate happiness, but also with eternal joys. It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children’s children down through the many generations" ("Oneness in Marriage").

How grateful I am for the gospel and for the truths I have been raised with. For the knowledge I have that a marriage can last more than a few years, more than just a lifetime, but that marriage can last for eternity. You treat marriage and who you marry to much more seriously.