Category: Marriage/Family

Marriage and family statistically promise greater wealth and happiness, but the number of people marrying and rearing children has plummeted to historic lows nationwide, according to Center for Christian Virtue’s Family Structure Index.

No popular writer of this century has probably influenced the marriage and relationship culture more than Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the 2006 runaway bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love. No one has probably done more damage, either. Her latest memoir, All the Way to the River (“River”), a long-winded, empty hodgepodge of debauchery, adds to her shameless stream of anti-family and anti-marriage propaganda. It, too, is an instant bestseller, also endorsed by Oprah.

The bad news is that marriage has been declining remarkably over the last seven decades. You can track that decline here, here and here. This means that the share of adults never marrying has reached an all-time high in the United States, documented here.

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump recently signed an Executive Order focused on strengthening the U.S. child welfare system and expanding opportunities for children, families and youth transitioning out of foster care.

Corporate America is often guilty of being culturally tone deaf, ignoring the wholesome heartbeat of the nuclear family – but not this time.

Young women are losing faith in marriage. This is the takeaway from a dramatic new Pew poll showing that in the past 30 years, the share of 12th grade girls who say they are most likely to “choose to get married” one day has dropped more than 20 percentage points, from 83% in 1993 to 61% in 2023. Meanwhile the share of young men who hope to get married has remained steady, at around 75%.