I just read an article by Denis Prager in which he says the following:  “Getting married and making a good family . . .  . is the single best thing the vast majority of people can do to make a better world.”  And he is absolutely correct.  Making a good family involves a number of things that are missing in today’s world. 

  1. The first is commitment.  One of the young girls in our church was about to be married a few years ago.  Her grandmother had been talking with her about the upcoming marriage and how a couple needed to work at making their marriage succeed.  To her absolute horror, her granddaughter blithely answered, “Oh, I don’t worry about it. If it doesn’t work out we’ll just get divorced.” Unfortunately, this is the attitude of most young people today.  A marriage, if they choose to get married at all, is rarely entered into as a permanent arrangement, but rather one that lasts until something better comes along. Although it is well established that married couples area better off financially than cohabiting couples, in 2017, 35% of unmarried adults living with children were cohabiting with a partner rather than in a marriage.
  2. Second is the recognition that men are not monsters, but are needed for a healthy home environment. The MeToo movement at long last unveiled the sexual harassment and sexual abuse that many famous men had subjugated women to for years. Sadly, their friends and bosses often had been quite aware of the abuse, but because of the celebrity status of the men, had ignored it.  Following swiftly upon  those revelations, however, came an entirely wrong and totally opposite reaction.  Many women stopped dating for fear they would be date raped.  Men were afraid to so much as talk to an unknown woman for fear she would charge him with sexual harassment. Women, especially college women, were to be believed implicitly if they charged a man with rape, and the government send out recommendations that such accused young men should be summarily dismissed from their college.  The problem, of course, is that not all women are truthful.  In fact, a woman scorned can become spiteful enough to cry rape when in fact the sex, if there was sex, was entirely consensual. And thus men, especially white men, became labeled as monsters by the Left.  

This is incredibly harmful to the country.  The percentage of married households in the U.S. has shrunk to 44%, and  by 2018, a little less than half of the women in the country had no children, The largest driver of our increase in population today is not the children that young couples in their 20s and 30s are having but rather the illegal aliens who are waltzing across our now largely open southern border.  Thus, this antipathy towards men and the reluctance to have children is changing the demographics of our country.  In addition, without a man in a loving marriage with a woman, you do not have a stable home.  Psychologists have proven in studies that children do best in homes with a father (a biological male) and a mother (a biological female).  Other combinations or the absence of a father figure leads to psychological problems in the children, who then act out in school, often flunk out, start taking drugs, get pregnant, and get involved in crime.  Husbands teach their sons how to treat women, how to earn a living, and how to be men without resorting to violence. They teach their daughters to expect men to treat them with courtesy and respect, as the fathers treat their mothers. Without both parents in the home, families fail.

3. Just as fathers are necessary in the family, so are mothers and to teach their children to become responsible adults, mothers and fathers need to treat each other with respect and love, and to remain faithful to each other.  Young adults find divorce the easy way out of a too quick marriage or one that has encountered some difficulties because they have seen their parents do the same thing.  God intends for a man and a woman to commit to each other for life, and it is only that sort of commitment that provides the stable families that were the bedrock of our society in the past.  Of course there were bad marriages.  Of course there were spouses that were unfaithful.  But infidelity was not treated with the casualness that it is today – – – on television, in the movies – – –  and therefore in real life.  If a man leaves his wife for a younger woman, his buddies are more inclined to envy him than condemn him, and if a wife leaves her husband for another man, little stigma attaches to her.

The Left in America has no love for this country nor for our way of life.  They have torn down statues, not just of Confederate generals, but also of Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves and Brooker T. Washington who was himself a slave before escaping to the north where he became an outspoken abolitionist.  They have re-written the history of the United States with their 1619 Project and try to shame all whites including small, white children into believing that they were born evil racists.  They are currently paying people not to work even though the pandemic is basically over, despite the Delta variant, and businesses are desperate for workers. And the greatest threat to all of their plans for turning this country into a socialist hellhole with no freedom of speech and no freedom to practice our religious beliefs is the strong, stable family.  A family who takes their children to church or synagogue, teaches their children respect at home, teaches them the value of work, teaches them accurate history, teaches them to treat all people with equal consideration regardless of the color of their skin – – – this is the greatest hope for America!