The Retreat from Marriage - A Recipe for Disaster

Written By: Al Mohler  |  Posted: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

If you were determined to consign a population to poverty and any number of social pathologies, how might you do it? If your design is to extend the effects of these pathologies and pains to successive generations, what might be your plan? The answer to both of these questions is clear. Just marginalize marriage.

Economists report that the wealth deficit of the unmarried as compared to the consistently married is as much as 75 percent. The unmarried are less healthy, less wealthy, and less stable in relationships as compared to married couples. And, to no one's surprise, the ill effects of this condition are extended immediately to the children of unmarried unions and to generations to come.

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