{"id":10942,"date":"2024-05-31T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:02:06","slug":"intentional-strong-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10942","title":{"rendered":"Intentional, Strong Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/intentional-strong-families\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/intentional-strong-families\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Nebraska researchers conducted research that found strong families shared six characteristics: Family members have a strong commitment to each other and make their relationships a high priority. They make it known that they appreciate each other, they talk to each other about small things and big issues, they spend time together, they believe in a greater power and have shared belief, and they cope with difficulties and crises effectively.<\/p>\n<p>None of these characteristics should surprise us. What this tells us is strong families don\u2019t just happen; they require intention and persistence. We also know that strong families make for strong churches, strong communities, strong states, and a strong nation. This means we need more dads and moms to be intentional about making strong families.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/intentional-strong-families\/ University of Nebraska researchers conducted research that found strong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10943,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions\/10943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}