Category: Marriage/Family

Many people grow up believing they need to find “the one—a perfect soulmate who appears at exactly the right time and makes love effortless. Disney fairy tales and the curated glow of social media can make that ideal feel normal, as if healthy relationships are always smooth, conflict-free, and endlessly exciting. In reality, what we see online is only a highlight reel that rarely reveals the patient and sometimes messy work required to build lasting love.

“If you’re living with somebody that’s not your spouse, you’re sleeping with somebody that’s not your spouse, or you’ve actually already started a family and had kids with somebody that’s not your spouse, and you right now are coming under the loving conviction of the Holy Spirit that you need to honor God, bend your knee to Jesus,” he said from the pulpit in late February.

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.