Category: Marriage/Family

“The magnitude of the effects—a 35 to 55% increase in mortality and up to a 63% increase in teen births—underscores how divorce can dramatically reshape children’s outcomes, potentially through changes in resources, supervision, and family dynamics.”

Their primary source of pain is that the boatloads of money that have been pumped into the continent to kill their unborn children (by promoting abortion) and attack the integrity of the human person and undermine marriage and family (by promoting LGBT ideology) have come from … the West. Not only that, but the way in which this money is coming in is coercive. African government leaders are having their arms twisted by Western diplomats and NGOs and told that if they don’t agree to allow abortion and LGBT ideology, they aren’t going to get the financial aid they often so desperately need.

“Don’t get married until your ‘brain is fully developed’ – after 25.”

“Don’t get married until you ‘travel the world.’”

“Don’t get married until you get a master’s degree, then a PhD, then study abroad.”

“Why can’t you care about how I feel?” My wife, Erin, was in tears as she stormed out of the bedroom. Not a great start to our evening together. She’d already been crying in the bathroom when I got home from work. I asked Erin what was wrong, and she told me that she’d fought with a friend. Erin had accidentally done something that hurt her friend’s feelings. The ensuing conversation between them hadn’t been pretty, and it left Erin hurt and confused. “It sounds like one big misunderstanding,” I said. “Why don’t you call her and explain again what you were trying to say?”

If there is a more important day among those the United Nations has designated for worldwide observance than the International Day of Families, we don’t know about it. A core component of the legacy of the late Pope Francis was his teaching about the family. Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. The future of humanity passes through the family. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always.

The death of a child can set you on the most difficult trek of your life, one that challenges your connection in marriage. As dark as this time is, there’s hope for the future — and your marriage.

Given the continued relationship between earning capacity and marriage for individual Japanese men, it is likely that much of the overall declining rates of marriage and family formation in Japan is due to the increase of employment instability among young men.