Reports were out yesterday that births to unmarried mothers are at an all-time high. Something like 40%, if I heard correctly. Associated stories suggested kids are having sex at younger ages than ever, and there is an unprecedented number of unmarried couples cohabitating.
It is such a sad indictment of American society, where morality is a dirty word, right is wrong and wrong is right, bad is good and good is bad. In a country with cultural icons like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised.
For the gay rights people to point to their opponents as hypocrites for tolerating the anything goes status among heteros, they aren't off the mark. I'm certainly one that openly expresses the opinion that homosexual behavior is disordered and morally wrong. The important thing is that I am consistent, as I believe and express the parallel opinion that multiple marriage and promiscuity are just as wrong.
No wonder we have such an epidemic of spoiled, undisciplined, and narcissistic people. Beginning with the post-war 60's generation, our culture has declined steadily through each generation until it now seems to have crumbled into Sodom and Gomorrah, or the last decades of the Roman Empire.
For a young, unmarried man or woman out there, what might happen if you decided to stay chaste until you found your permanent mate? I'm thinking the best outcome would be that you would quickly move through the shallow and narcissistic to eventually find a like-minded match. Without the pressure of sex and the particular way it blinds you to the real person you're dating, there's tremendous freedom to explore true compatibility questions.
The fundamental truth is that spouses who did not have multiple partners before marriage are must less likely to be unfaithful. Solid and committed marital relationships lead to children who are more likely to share the same values, be happy and successful, and raise solid children themselves.
Sadly, such truth is generally scorned or laughed at by most people. Knowing where we've been, I'm sorry for where we have arrived.
4 comments:
there is no surer proof of aging than an increasing disapproval of others.
So are you suggesting these trends are not troubling?
they are troubling, but they're not brand-new. from the beginning of time, people have been sinning. look at the amount of adultery in the bible - it's not modern america that's causing infidelity or unwed boinking or what have you, it's human nature. and it's all very nice and easy to sit and condemn the unwed mothers and the immoral left, but that's not changing anything.
It may be human nature, but it's not inevitable. That 40% unwed birth rate was only 5% 30-40 years ago. There's no question that moral standards have declined dramatically. I think people have the ability and the responsiblity to rise above animal behavior for our own good. And especially the good of children - they're the big victims in all this.
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