By Robert Anthony
Aug 6th 2024
Anyone reading my stuff is aware how big into family I am. I see the original, God-created, family as the foundation of society, world wide. Therefore destroying, usurping or trying to recreate that foundation society will implode, crumbling upon itself.
Looking around, seeing such bad news, seemingly everywhere, I was surprised to learn that divorce rates have been trending down for a couple decades now, and the trend continues! Here is a graph from a study by Bowling Green showing the falling divorce trends:
Clearly it isn't much surprising to see divorce rates way up from 100 years ago, and even since the 60's but what is quite surprising to me is how divorce rates have been consistently falling since the 80's!!
The Institute for Family Studies published an article during Covid, "The US Divorce Rate has Hit a 50-year Low". Here is their graph from their findings:
As I continue to click around, the whole of academia is in agreement on this issue! Divorce rates are in fact falling and trending to fall every year more than the next. Amazing!
I stumbled upon another study showing that marriage in general has been trending downward for sometime:
What has my attention is that the world is heading for drastic population decline. Which means less people are marrying, less people are having children and those who are, have much less children than previous generations. But there is this saving grace in the story of what is plaguing our families in the 21st century: people are divorcing much less!
Well, in closing, let us remember how the whole of history began: God created one man, Adam and put him alone in a garden. Certainly God could have raised up thousands or millions of men but He did not, He made Adam, His son and put Him in a beautiful garden, to tend and to keep.
God and His son were alone for a season when God determined it was time to start that first family. And God put Adam to sleep and took out a part of Adam (his rib) and created the first woman, who would be Adam's wife, the mother of all living, Eve. That first family was alone in all that majesty with their God and Father for a time - and then they started a family. The whole of mankind came forth from that first family. What a story!!
God made the family. It was His creation. He could have done things differently but He did not. From the family, God birthed the nations, the whole of humanity, our entire history! it was all birthed out from the family. (Science now is in agreement. The whole of the human genome came from one man.)
Maybe there is a lesson in this for us in the 21st Century? Maybe some of our foundations, what many downplay as mere traditions, are nonexchangeable and irreplaceable? Perhaps the things in our society that need correcting are in fact not at all it's fundamental functions but something much more elusive and harder to quantify? Perhaps we, as a freedom-loving people, need to reconsider this freedom we have been given, this freedom to choose, and reconsider what we will do with it.
Will we continue to war against our own foundations? Or instead seek out who or what is actually our enemy and refocus our attack against the thing truly warring against our hearts and minds, what is in truth warring against our families...
There is a reason so many are content to believe in a lie. But the answer to that question is is harder to come by. Having said that, what generation wars against their own selves and survives? The family that God created remains the foremost foundation under assault but there seems to be good news, a new generation is coming to the scene... Hopefully we, older folks, can help them to find their way.
Or at a minimum, don't hinder them as they try...
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