Churches need more focus on Marriage

We need to be sensitive to singleness but we also need to be aware of a profound new study called When Marriage Disappears:

Here are the central theses:

1. Marriage is an emerging dividing line between America’s moderately educated middle and those with college degrees.

2.  Marital quality is declining for the moderately educated middle but not for their highly educated peers.

3. Divorce rates are up for moderately educated Americans, relative to those who are highly educated.

4.  The moderately educated middle is dramatically more likely than highly educated Americans to have children outside of marriage.

5.  The children of highly educated parents are now more likely than in the recent past to be living with their mother and father, while children with moderately educated parents are far less likely to be living with their mother and father.

What do you see here? What do you think should/could be done?

In my judgment, one of the fundamental issues to address, which I did address from a slightly different angle in my book One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow , is the meaning of love. More and more Christians think of love in romantic and ideal terms and fail to grasp its true meaning. We need a generation of teaching and living what true love means.