When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God.

And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff.

Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy,

thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about

kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,

that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly, and we love kids. Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's.

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I think there's a generation of younger people who have watched families break down. They've seen divorce and they're

thinking, why would I even aspire to marriage? I mean, is it going to work for me? Well, I want to

encourage you that marriage is a great thing and it's worth your pursuit. I'm John Fuller, joined by

Aaron and Greg Smalley, who run the Focus Marriage Department. And

Aaron, you've got a counseling practice. Do you do much premarital counseling where,

whoops, I'm not sure. I'm a little anxious about this. We have to talk this through because

I know or I've seen. Absolutely. It's interesting. I was working on some research for my doctoral program, specifically

around what is it that this next generation of couples needs in their premarital counseling

that's different from past premarital programs. And one of the things that I found in the

research is the fear of commitment. The fear of commitment in marriage specifically that they want to talk more about that because it's very common, especially you think about the culture that this next generation is growing up in.

Marriage is not being painted in a positive light.

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