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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...

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives proposed the wrongly named “Respect for Marriage Act.” If it passes the Senate, this bill will result in a further stage of the legal evolution of marriage.

Marriage today looks a lot different from what it used to be, and the changes come with real consequences. Technological shifts like birth control have made marriage less urgent, leaving many young adults delaying or avoiding it altogether, which...

How is it that so many, including so many in the Church, now embrace a view of marriage that was unthinkable just a few decades ago? 

As Chuck Colson always said, the only way to truly understand a worldview is follow it to its logical conclusion. The worldview of the sexual revolution is built on three ideas. First, sex, marriage, and babies are separable. Second, men and women...

For the first time in our history, married couples no longer form the majority of American households.

One of the best ways couples can protect their children is also the most simple — by getting married.

Americans today are lonelier than ever.

Is marriage going extinct? We’ll talk some data, and some conservation strategies, next on BreakPoint.

Though unusual as a long-term vocation, singleness is a biblical, God-ordained calling within which individuals show God’s image and serve Him and His Church with single-minded, self-sacrificial devotion. Scripture presents single people as whole...

Statistics back up God’s good plan for humanity and for His creation.

While gay rights activists insist on the need for same-sex “marriage,” the 2010 census tells a shockingly different story.

The Supreme Court is now pondering the legal fate of marriage in this country. But that’s all it can do.

New data is poking holes in what’s become a prominent cultural myth. “When it comes to divorce,” write Brad Wilcox and Lyman Stone in The Wall Street Journal, “the research has generally backed up the belief that it’s best to wait until around 30...

What does Scripture say about living together before marriage? What myths about cohabitation does God's heart break down?

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims. Seven years ago, Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story told of a woman in her late 30s, single and successful in her career, who spent $19,000 to have her eggs frozen. She planned to focus on a...

Christians are rightly concerned about the family crisis in the society, and we must work to protect and defend the family against its enemies. But, long before the society at large will care about our perspective on the family crisis, the church...