According to a new Gallup poll, despite changing attitudes toward marriage, most Americans still want to get married someday.
According to a new Gallup poll, despite changing attitudes toward marriage, most Americans still want to get married someday.
The book The Future of Christian Marriage features interviews with numerous Christian young people from seven countries. By being both forward-looking and firmly planted in history, Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus traces how marriage went from a natural institution bound up with childbearing and blessed by the Church to one that is now, like so many other things in our culture, determined by adult desires and largely defined (or should I say redefined?) by the state.
Predictions of a COVID-induced divorce surge never materialized. And according to Dr. Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, divorce filings are down between 10 and 20 percent since last year.
In 2019, the U.S. divorce rate hit a 50-year low according to new Census data. The data has been called “great news” for American families and children by a prominent researcher.
According to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, America has gotten older faster over the last ten years than at any other time in history. Since 2010, Americans over 65 have become the fastest-growing segment of the population. Meanwhile, the number of those under 18 actually shrank between 2010 and 2019.
The rise of cohabitation has followed not only a shift of attitudes about out-of-wedlock sex, but about the institution of marriage itself. Several years ago, another Pew study found that more than half of young people in America thought marriage was “obsolete.”
God gave man the role of leader of his family, but what does that look like? The world often tells us that leadership and authority are the same thing, but this is not so.
Emerson Eggerichs' book says that what women need is love and what men desire is respect. A Christian blogger has taken issue with the book's message after hearing stories of abuse from women who took the book's advice. So why is this happening? Is the book leading to abusive relationships?