“Modern societies have a complicated relationship to Down syndrome. On the one hand, poll after poll shows that 90% of women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome for their unborn child abort him or her. On the other, those Down syndrome children who do survive are well cared for and are feted as champions if they have conventionally successful careers.”
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There’s still work to be done. Marriage at both the institutional and individual levels is not perfect. The marriage doomers see the imperfections and have decided to give up. They tell their followers to give up, too. And I get it, it’s easy to become discouraged when things aren’t just right. But when I look at how far we’ve come, I don’t see a failed utopia. I see a story of progress. I see generations of people working, little by little but with great success, to make the world a better place. Which is to say, the story of marriage is not one of doom. It’s a story of hope.
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Simply put, many people lack knowledge and skills of how to date in this frustrating, modern marriage market. The result is a mismatch between young adult aspirations for a healthy, lifelong union and a dating system that can reliably get them to the altar. Those already on the marriage highway are mostly doing well and receiving its benefits, but broken-down marital on-ramps mean fewer and fewer young adults will ever get access to those benefits.
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In 2021, nearly 90% of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome in England and the Crown Dependencies had their lives ended by abortion, according to statistics released by NHS England.
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A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) affirms this. The survey found that 26% of Americans now identify as “religiously unaffiliated,” the largest single group in the U.S.; those calling themselves explicitly atheist has doubled from 2% to 4%; those identifying as agnostic have gone from 2% to 5%. Post-Christian America is not post-spiritual America; most still claim to hold vague spiritual beliefs of one sort or another but reject “organized religion.” The Catholic Church, for example, is losing more members than it is gaining, while black Protestants and religious Jews are least likely to leave.
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