Domestic Church

My parents have sent me to Catholic school since pre-school so they have always wanted me to have an influence from the Catholic Church in my education. My parents and I used to go to Church together every Sunday morning but that has been happening less frequently over the years and now we really only say grace before holiday dinners. My grandmom was always the strongest religious influence in my life. She taught me to pray before bed always reminds me that she'll pray for me whenever I need it, like when I go off to college. She always prays before trips and goes to church every sunday morning with my grandpop. She is also a person that would loose her head if it weren't attached to her body so she taught me to pray to St. Anthony too.
From the episode of parenthood there were definitely some pros and cons seen about marriage today. A pro is that there are many more adoptions taking place now than there ever have been before. This gives children an opportunity to have a stable and healthy life with a study and strong home life that they would not have been able to have if they were to stay with their birth parents in certain situations. Other things that are becoming more prevalent on the other hand are teen pregnancies. This I'd say is a con because most teenagers are not mature or equipped enough to handle raising a child of their own. In order to be able to support a baby, teen moms have to either put them in day care, with parents, or stay home and not receive education. No matter which scenario happens, the baby is loosing a vital part of normal childhood.  While there are some exceptions, I think the vast majority of teen pregnancies leave babies with moms whose dads have abandoned them with no money, no high-school degree, and no way to raise a child on their own. In these cases I think there leaves little room for faith development because there are more prevailing issues such as food, clothes, and place to stay.
I believe the fact that people with a college degree are less likely to get divorced or married multiple times. I think this is partly attributed to the fact that people who go to college usually want to wait until they're graduated before they even think about marriage and kids. This is probably a reason why they are less likely to get divorced because they have had time to mature and almost get the "hooking-up" scene out of their system. By this time they are ready to settle down and find someone to build a life with instead of constantly seeking something new and different. I am hoping that this is the experience that I have because I definitely do not want to have to go through a divorce if I can avoid it. I want to make sure I'm ready for a marriage before I get myself into one, which means I want to wait until after medical school so that I can spend time making sure that my marriage is strong and growing. I will eventually want to build a domestic church I think. I want my kids to get the same level of education that I was lucky enough to receive and I want to make sure that faith is something that is always with them because I truly believe everything that happens to a person happens because God intended it to, even the hard stuff. I want to teach them that God wouldn't throw difficult things at you if he didn't know you could handle them so its just His way of making sure you know your own strength and own capacity to grow as a person.