Doctrinal Highlight

Believing in Marriage

family among flowers

“No one has ever come up with a more efficient way to raise the next generation than a household of married parents with children. …

“We need to remind ourselves once in a while, as I was reminded in Rome, of the wonderfully reassuring and comforting fact that marriage and family are still the aspiration and ideal of most people and that we are not alone in those beliefs. It has never been more of a challenge to find a practical balance between employment, families, and personal needs than it is in our day. As a church, we want to assist in all that we can to create and support strong marriages and families.”

Elder L. Tom Perry (1922–2015) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Why Marriage and Family Matter—Everywhere in the World,” Ensign, May 2015, 41, 42.

For more doctrinal articles on marriage from the April 2015 conference, see Boyd K. Packer, “The Plan of Happiness,” 26; Linda K. Burton, “We’ll Ascend Together,” 29; and D. Todd Christofferson, “Why Marriage, Why Family,” 50.