I have decided to take my position that husband and wife should not both give talks on the same Sunday and express it more verbally. I guess in theory at times this might be OK. However as it is done is some wards, it just becomes a way to avoid doing more work and sticks people in a rut. It also makes it harder to fit single people into the speaking schedule.
In theory if one rare occasions a husband and wife are both asked to speak on the same Sunday it is not too bad. Unfortunately too often when this is done it is done by default all the time. In the case of families with little children this is actually probably counter productive. Even in other families, the best talks are built with advice from your spouse. I guess I can see cooperative building, but I think too often what happens is one person is wanted to talk, and the other is just tagged on because that is what is felt like.
It also creates a near universal pattern of 1 male and 1 female speaker. Some subjects will call for 2 male or 2 female. Sometimes only the husband or wife needs to learn the subject. And sometimes you might want the wife to go last, but the husband might take offence to that.
I have seen wards do both ways, and have to say I just like the way of unrelated people speaking a lot better.
Don't get me started on inapropriate missionary farwell Sundays.
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