Higher percentages of Americans view marriage as being “old-fashioned” as just over half believe that marriage is needed to create strong families.

By: John Stonestreet – breakpoint.org – December 12, 2019 Between 2014 and 2017, the divorce rate in Jacksonville, Florida, and surrounding Duval County fell 24 percent. Of course, divorce rates are falling nationally already, possibly because fewer people are bothering to get married. Still, 24 percent is a huge number, especially compared to a 6 percent decline nationally and a 10 percent...

By: Denis Prager – townhall.com – February 4, 2020 If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask? Most religious people would probably ask, “Do you believe in God?” The most important question most secular people, especially progressives, could imagine asking is probably a policy question. Today...

By: Peggy Drexler – wsj.com – August 29, 2019 Chicago native Lola Vanderstrand was in her early 40s when she started looking for a husband online. She’d been married before, and she had her doubts about online dating. The site that she chose, Match.com, didn’t appeal to her at first, but Ms. Vanderstrand quickly realized that dating online was forcing her...

By: Joe Pinsker – theatlantic.com – September 25, 2018 In the past 10 years, the percentage of American marriages that end in divorce has fallen, and in a new paper, the University of Maryland sociologist Philip Cohen quantified the drop-off: Between 2008 and 2016, the divorce rate declined by 18 percent overall. After accounting for the rising average age of...

By: Paige Skinner – dallasobserver.com – June 27, 2018 Not to be harsh, but it’s either you or your spouse. We assume this because Dallas was ranked the third-highest city in America for Ashley Madison users. You know, Ashley Madison — the website where men and women in unsatisfying marriages go to cheat. According to a new report that Ashley...

By: Jonathan Saenz – txvalues.org – June 4, 2018 This morning the U.S. Supreme Court released its Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, holding 7-2 that the Colorado government violated the constitutional rights (Free Exercise Clause) of private business owner and cake baker Jack Phillips. Last year, Texas Values joined 32 state family policy organizationsfrom across the country supporting Colorado cake shop owner Jack...

By: Roni Caryn Rabin – nytimes.com – May 29, 2018 The millennial generation’s breezy approach to sexual intimacy helped give rise to apps like Tinder and made phrases like “hooking up” and “friends with benefits” part of the lexicon. But when it comes to serious lifelong relationships, new research suggests, millennials proceed with caution. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist who studies...

By Lee & Leslie Strobel – JesusCalling.com – Episode 36 Narrator: Hello! We’re so grateful that you’ve chosen to listen to the Jesus Calling podcast featuring Lee and Leslie Strobel today. If you are enjoying these personal stories of faith each week, will you take a moment to give us a review on iTunes? It takes just a second—and it...

By: Lyn Mettler –  today.com – February 6, 2018 Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular days to get married in Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau. And of course in Sin City, you’ve got your choice of wedding chapels: from the drive-up variety to the Las Vegas Wedding Wagon, which comes to you....