Claim. The four-position foundation is presented as a universal law in which spouses and children are necessary to human completeness.
Elaboration. SMM says the universe moves according to a principle of family structure and that people grieve death because a universal force in the four-position-foundation is broken (CSG 4.11 §6, 24-223, 1969.8.17). A person without spouse or children lacks essential relational partners for joy. The claim is not only social convention; it is ontological, rooted in the principle by which God intended love to appear. The family pattern becomes the law through which individual life joins the universe.
See also. four-position-foundation, principle-of-creation