Category: Marriage/Family

Instead of celebrating the fact that more young women are alone and childless, explore ways to make it easier for young men and women to get and stay married.

The Idaho House passed a resolution condemning Obergefell v. Hodges as ‘an illegitimate overreach’ that ‘arbitrarily and unjustly’ rejected the true definition of marriage.

Marital status is significantly related to the level of loneliness reported by an individual, with married people reporting the lowest levels of loneliness.

If you’ve been on social media in the past 10 years, you’ve surely seen it: The lamentation that it’s impossible for young adults in America today to buy a home. This is a complaint as likely to be offered by populist conservatives as by Taylor Lorenz-style progressives. The new right’s emphasis on family formation and declining fertility rates, in combination with the populist skew of young conservatives, has boosted the issue of housing costs in center-right circles. However, there’s just one problem with blaming unaffordable homeownership for declining family formation: it gets the causality backwards.

Fertility increased during the tax holiday year, suggesting that even though Icelanders had a strong incentive to make more money that year, they instead chose to have more babies.

This Christmas Eve, as I’ve done every year since I was a child, I joined my father’s side of the family at my aunt’s house, a few blocks away from where I grew up in Bethlehem, PA. I’m the second youngest of 16 cousins, many of whom are much older than me and have children anywhere from between 2 and 22. And there’s a whole brood of second cousins between 4 and 8.

America, and every other nation in the world, must robustly regain the long and devastating declines in marriage, fertility and married parenting for its own national growth and vitality.Growth cannot happen without each of these.
And none of this happens unless boy meets girl. There is no alternative hack. So, we must ask,“What is the state of dating today?”

The influential professor and educator John Senior proposed a bottom-up approach to cultural transformation. “Restorations never start in the collapsing tops but always in the dull low places of simple hearts,” he argued in “The Restoration of Christian Culture.” In his biography of Senior, Fr. Francis Bethel added, “Rebuilding culture calls for quiet and hidden work in more human and personal areas; foundations must be rebuilt.”