“God ordained that men and women should marry and give birth to children, thereby creating, in partnership with God, the physical bodies that are key to the test of mortality and essential to eternal glory with Him. He also ordained that parents should establish families and rear their children in light and truth, leading them to a hope in Christ.”

Todd Christopherson, “Why Marriage, Why Family?”, General Conference, April 2015

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2015/04/why-marriage-why-family?lang=eng

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