Claim. In May 1994 the Unification Church replaced the individual-focused “My Pledge” with the Family Pledge because the providence had moved from individuals to families as its central unit.
Elaboration. SMM is explicit about the substitution: “Until now, in the Unification Church, we recited My Pledge focused on the individual… the Family Pledge was established because a man and a woman lost their family. Unless we reestablish the original standard of the model family acceptable to God before the Fall, God cannot rejoice or establish the heavenly kingdom” (1.1. This is the age centering on families, not on individuals, 260-181 1994.5.8; 274-114 1995.10.29). He adds that “Until now, we recited My Pledge, but now we are reciting the Family Pledge for the first time. There had not been any Family Pledge before in history” (ibid, 263-110 1994.8.21). The switch is dated and historical: the Family Pledge “was created forty years after the founding of the Unification Church” (266-143 1994.12.22), formalizing the family — not the individual — as the providential unit going forward.
See also. csg-family-pledge-was-born-after-forty-years-of-indemnity, csg-family-becomes-the-providential-unit-after-1994