I think close knit families are important. A major contributing factor to so many juvenile crimes is broken homes. Families where either their mother, father or both has left them. God meant for children to be unconditionally loved and for them to have a feeling of security. Instead, today's children feel betrayed and to make matters worse society condones what their parents are doing or have done to them. Declaring it normal for parents to divorce regardless of the negative impact on the children. Consider for a moment joint custody. How woul ....