The trends facing our country today regarding the family are not something that the typical person would identify as shocking or alarming. Higher divorce rates, marrying later in life, fewer people actually getting married, per-marital sex has gone up, and so has the rate of couples cohabiting. These are trends that are very obvious to our day and age, but learning more about them kind of makes me a little worried for countries future. It is proven that married couples have higher rates of happiness than do single people, yet many people want to wait until way later in life to marry or never marry at all? I don't understand why.
So many people now-a-days don't want to have kids. The average child had per couple is approximately 1.5 children. Do people not realize that if we want to be able to continue to repopulate the earth that we have to have an absolute minimum of two children? Good thing there are us Mormon's that have like 12 children per couple that keep us going ;). But seriously! It is so sad to me that these trends are occurring and that no one realizes the detrimental effects it could have on our children and our future.
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