[reaganaut]

.I’d look into that “due to the father’s constant absence from the home”...

That can’t be good...buddy. Maybe your priorities are whacked!? eh?

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I find it interesting that a church that claims families are forever and the most important thing, also requires its members to have ‘callings’ that require 30-50 hours per week in addition to having a ‘day job’ and usually being a one income family.

If families are that important then why not have the husbands home more?

The LDS complain about paid clergy, but I find that I like that my pastor’s ‘job’ is just to look after our spiritual welfare and counsel and guide us. A workman is worthy of his hire. He doesn’t have another day job (although there were early years that he had a second part time job but never a full time one) to stress about and we are not seen as a time burden.

[Tennessee Nana]

At our church some Sunday nights are “family nights”

Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter Sunday etc...

[Tennessee Nana]

I meant we dont have church those nights...

[SZonian]

If both wife and husband have callings, it's near impossible to have any family time. The callings sound benign on the surface, but once one gets into doing them and doing them correctly, one quickly finds out how little time one has to take care of family responsibilities and to find quality time.

If you're in the Young Men's program and actively performing your duties as the quorom advisor and Scouting leader for that quorom, you find that you have very little personal or family time. One weekend will be priesthood activity of some kind, another will be Scouting, another may be Elder's quorom, etc.

That's not taking into account the time spent during the week preparing for those activities or the time spent as a Scout leader ensuring your actively engaged in trying to ensure the Scouting program is run correctly.

The amount of stress placed on the family is immeasurable, but don't worry, you'll be "blessed" for your sacrifices for the "church". /s