Unfortunately, many are breaking their marriage vow to be faithful to each other until death; this is not only against their true love, but hurting children especially.

Children depend on us for everything – health, education, values, care, guidance, and above all, our love, but sadly, many couples do not find time for their children, because they are either working or sleeping.

The number of such parents is going up because more and more couples have to pay their house mortgage, their furniture, their cars and so many other expenses. But some parents do find quality time with their children, even though they would have been working all day, and that is something to admire.

Mother Teresa once said: “Jesus on the cross had to give until it hurt, because that is what it took for him to love us and save us”, and “If a father and mother are not willing to give until it hurts to be faithful to each other, and to their children, they are not showing their children what it means to love

This is the most important point, because many marriages are failing just because one party always wants to have his/her way and would not bring him/herself to admit they may be wrong when the other party might have been right.

Others do not know how to forgive and forget, but Christ forgave all those who insulted, hurt or crucified him, so why should not we too?

Many families are experiencing much suffering because of violence, alcoholism, adultery and abuse which often leads to a breakdown of their marriage or their normal relationship. As the saying goes, ‘the family that prays together stays together’. This is true; just ask any family that had stayed together whatever their difficulties – surely there are plenty of such families.

Then we must remember that the fruits of prayer are joy, love, peace and family unity. We all know that divorce destroys relationships, and keeps on causing terrible hardship to the children, who no longer see their parents together at table.

So divorce is not a solution to family problems, but one of the biggest killers of family love and unity. So we should do our best to preserve family love and unity, especially through prayer.