Fractured Families
The family is where the vast majority of us learn the fundamental skills for life; physically, emotionally and socially it is the context from which the rest of life flows. However family life in Britain is changing such that adults and children today are increasingly faced with the challenges of dysfunctional, fractured, or fatherless families. This is especially the case in the least advantaged sections of society but these trends also profoundly affect people across the socioeconomic spectrum. In this report we have sought to explore the current state of the family, and the extent, consequences and causes of family breakdown.
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/.../BB_family_breakdown.pdf
Yes, family breakdown IS behind broken Britain: Top judge says it ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Yes-family-breakdown-IS-broken-Britain-Top-judge-says-national-tragedy-attacks-BBC-suppressing-debate.html
HERE ARE A FEW WORDS FROM REV. MOON ON THIS ISSUE:
Stable families are key to a Peaceful World
A Peaceful world is a natural world where all people live for the sake of one another. Consequently, antagonism and jealousy cannot be found anywhere in that world. It is a world that is not governed by money, position or power. There, the success of every person represents the success of the whole, the likes of every person represent the likes of the whole, and the joy of every person represents the joy of the whole.
It is a world filled with the air of true love, where everyone breathes true love. Its life throbs with love, everywhere and all the time. The citizens of that kingdom are all linked together through their common membership . There, the whole world and all its people are connected in an inseparable relationship, like the cells in our bodies. True love is the only governing power.
You should now devote yourselves to practicing a life of true love. By thoroughly actualizing true love, you should bring your mind and body into perfect harmony. You should establish relationships of true love with everyone around you. To put it another way, you should perfect a true family, consisting of three generations of grandparents, parents and children living together in true love. If you do this, you will be creating a peaceful world and creating global citizens.
The Family is where we experience Universal Love
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family of peace. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
Such families contain the living root of history and the roots of a peaceful world. The grandparents, parents, and children represent the roots of the past, present and future, respectively. The root of the past represents the spirit world, the root of the present is the palace representing the world today, and the root of the future establishes sons and daughters as princes and princesses. By establishing such families, we are erecting the palace of peace representing the harmony of the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical world.
In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and children should live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such families.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. He should feel comfortable to visit your home like any parent coming to visit his or her children. This is what it means to live in service to God.
Family members who have established that vertical axis can perfect the four realms of love and: parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love. This is God’s everlasting model ideal family, which expands to ideal model nations and His peace kingdom. If only the entire world were filled with such loving global citizens and families! It would be an orderly world where people governed themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.
The Advent of a Peaceful World by establishing loving families
You are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history. The era of the new Peaceful World , long-awaited and yearned for by people who have come and gone throughout history. This is the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
This means we need a movement to realize a society of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values. We must make humankind into one great family by breaking down the walls in our hearts and eliminating even the boundaries between nations. This movement begins from each family. Therefore, we should all bear in mind that it is our providential calling to establish a true family. This is the way we can advance the establishment of the universal peace kingdom on earth.
George Bush Praises Sun Myung Moon as 'Man of Vision'
WHAT SCHOLARS SAY ABOUT Rev. Moon
Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Late Sociologist of Religion, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, US:
It is a commonplace observation that the family is the moral basis of society, and that religion constitutes the moral bond of family solidarity. Slogans abound in praise of family life. The family that prays together stays together. The moral level of a community reflects the moral level of its families. The Unification ideology of Rev. Moon emphasizes the centrality of the family in maintaining a religious culture and in transmitting a spiritual tradition. We may well conclude here with the remark by Harvey Cox: “Here is a movement which manages to combine religious universality, Pentecostal immediacy, a warmly supportive family and a program for allegedly building the kingdom of God on earth. Such a potent admixture cannot be dismissed lightly.”
http://www.reverendsunmyungmoon.org/
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
The life work of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, spans a time of dramatic global transformation from the two World Wars, the Cold War and the dawn of a new millennium. It is the life of a true visionary, to create a world of peace by establishing stable families. There is profound appreciation for his work and vision by a global network of friends, allies and supporters of every religion, race, culture and profession.
Growing up in impoverished, war-ravaged Korea at the beginning of the 20th century, Reverend Moon began his young life desperately questioning why there was so much human suffering. Through a profound relationship with God, he determined to dedicate his life to ending human suffering and creating the ideal world that God originally planned. His life course includes imprisonment in four countries--North Korea, South Korea, Japan and the United States--enduring torture on three occasions and the worldwide persecution and misunderstanding often accorded a new religious movement. Today he is the leader of a worldwide movement with activities in 190 nations, the founder of organizations and institutions in nearly every area of human endeavor and the leader of a major interreligious peace movement. He is proposing the establishment of an inter-religious council at the United Nations
The family is where the vast majority of us learn the fundamental skills for life; physically, emotionally and socially it is the context from which the rest of life flows. However family life in Britain is changing such that adults and children today are increasingly faced with the challenges of dysfunctional, fractured, or fatherless families. This is especially the case in the least advantaged sections of society but these trends also profoundly affect people across the socioeconomic spectrum. In this report we have sought to explore the current state of the family, and the extent, consequences and causes of family breakdown.
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/.../BB_family_breakdown.pdf
Yes, family breakdown IS behind broken Britain: Top judge says it ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Yes-family-breakdown-IS-broken-Britain-Top-judge-says-national-tragedy-attacks-BBC-suppressing-debate.html
HERE ARE A FEW WORDS FROM REV. MOON ON THIS ISSUE:
Stable families are key to a Peaceful World
A Peaceful world is a natural world where all people live for the sake of one another. Consequently, antagonism and jealousy cannot be found anywhere in that world. It is a world that is not governed by money, position or power. There, the success of every person represents the success of the whole, the likes of every person represent the likes of the whole, and the joy of every person represents the joy of the whole.
It is a world filled with the air of true love, where everyone breathes true love. Its life throbs with love, everywhere and all the time. The citizens of that kingdom are all linked together through their common membership . There, the whole world and all its people are connected in an inseparable relationship, like the cells in our bodies. True love is the only governing power.
You should now devote yourselves to practicing a life of true love. By thoroughly actualizing true love, you should bring your mind and body into perfect harmony. You should establish relationships of true love with everyone around you. To put it another way, you should perfect a true family, consisting of three generations of grandparents, parents and children living together in true love. If you do this, you will be creating a peaceful world and creating global citizens.
The Family is where we experience Universal Love
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family of peace. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
Such families contain the living root of history and the roots of a peaceful world. The grandparents, parents, and children represent the roots of the past, present and future, respectively. The root of the past represents the spirit world, the root of the present is the palace representing the world today, and the root of the future establishes sons and daughters as princes and princesses. By establishing such families, we are erecting the palace of peace representing the harmony of the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical world.
In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and children should live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such families.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. He should feel comfortable to visit your home like any parent coming to visit his or her children. This is what it means to live in service to God.
Family members who have established that vertical axis can perfect the four realms of love and: parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love. This is God’s everlasting model ideal family, which expands to ideal model nations and His peace kingdom. If only the entire world were filled with such loving global citizens and families! It would be an orderly world where people governed themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.
The Advent of a Peaceful World by establishing loving families
You are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history. The era of the new Peaceful World , long-awaited and yearned for by people who have come and gone throughout history. This is the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
This means we need a movement to realize a society of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values. We must make humankind into one great family by breaking down the walls in our hearts and eliminating even the boundaries between nations. This movement begins from each family. Therefore, we should all bear in mind that it is our providential calling to establish a true family. This is the way we can advance the establishment of the universal peace kingdom on earth.
George Bush Praises Sun Myung Moon as 'Man of Vision'
WHAT SCHOLARS SAY ABOUT Rev. Moon
Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Late Sociologist of Religion, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, US:
It is a commonplace observation that the family is the moral basis of society, and that religion constitutes the moral bond of family solidarity. Slogans abound in praise of family life. The family that prays together stays together. The moral level of a community reflects the moral level of its families. The Unification ideology of Rev. Moon emphasizes the centrality of the family in maintaining a religious culture and in transmitting a spiritual tradition. We may well conclude here with the remark by Harvey Cox: “Here is a movement which manages to combine religious universality, Pentecostal immediacy, a warmly supportive family and a program for allegedly building the kingdom of God on earth. Such a potent admixture cannot be dismissed lightly.”
http://www.reverendsunmyungmoon.org/
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
The life work of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, spans a time of dramatic global transformation from the two World Wars, the Cold War and the dawn of a new millennium. It is the life of a true visionary, to create a world of peace by establishing stable families. There is profound appreciation for his work and vision by a global network of friends, allies and supporters of every religion, race, culture and profession.
Growing up in impoverished, war-ravaged Korea at the beginning of the 20th century, Reverend Moon began his young life desperately questioning why there was so much human suffering. Through a profound relationship with God, he determined to dedicate his life to ending human suffering and creating the ideal world that God originally planned. His life course includes imprisonment in four countries--North Korea, South Korea, Japan and the United States--enduring torture on three occasions and the worldwide persecution and misunderstanding often accorded a new religious movement. Today he is the leader of a worldwide movement with activities in 190 nations, the founder of organizations and institutions in nearly every area of human endeavor and the leader of a major interreligious peace movement. He is proposing the establishment of an inter-religious council at the United Nations
