As we look across the Fruited Plains these days it would appear that things aren’t going so well, amen? Lots of division, tension, head butting and plenty of hate to go around, plus crime, injustice, lying, cheating, name it and if it’s bad, Americans seemingly want to claim it.
So here’s something we might want to consider. It is said that, “as goes the family . . . so goes the nation.” If so, then are we not getting close to the root cause of our problem; especially if you take an honest look at today’s American family where we find, in too many cases, a dangerous lack of commitment?
In today’s modern family, for example, we find close to half of all marriages ending in divorce. Now we shouldn’t find this surprising given that each spouse is entitled to a “get out of jail free card,” aka “no fault divorce.” A situation where spouses already have one foot out the door even as the marriage begins.
That is if young Americans decide to get married in the first place, which brings up yet another recent and growing trend with more and more “couples” choosing to just “live” together – no “get out of jail card” needed here. Sadly many of thos ...
