When one talks about "young" marriages how "young" are we talking? I'm old enough (58) to recall from my late youth when it was still fairly normal for young people who weren't going to college or the military would marry maybe a two or three years after high school. But with just one possible exception (people I lost touch with) every marriage in which one or both of the partners was younger than 25 ended in divorce.
Even the Middle Ages had the proverb "Marry in haste, repent at leisure".
The global nature of the fertility decline adds to the theory of memetic parenting desire being a key factor.
That theory is basically that the desire for children among women is less a product of an inborn drive or grand life plan and more a product of seeing happy moms and cute kids around you and deciding you'd like to live that life too. It's a more important version of a woman choosing a new dress based on what she sees other women wearing.
That's not 100% of the explanation, policies and media and culture and stuff are there too. But there's no other factor/theory I know of that can easily cover the way this phenomenon is so cross cultural.
Population control is the most devastating idea in human history. Counting abortion, it must have claimed more human lives than all warfare in recorded history combined.
There's a lot of things causing the decline: wealth, over-education, environmental, health, economic, secularism, etc. And in this perfect storm of causes, there exists global propaganda so thorough that to even point out the problem invites self-righteous sneers and anger.
I have to admit I just don’t understand anti-natalism, whether passive or active. I always imagined myself being a parent, wish I had more kids than I do, and sat through our primary school’s annual musical recently even though none of my children were in the thing just because it’s amazing to watch this young community grow.
Really good reporting from the New Yorker on SK fertility. The topic seems to be done to death, but this piece went deeper. It also really highlighted how much anti-natalism is an absolute bummer.
We can make all the logical arguments in the world for pro-natalism, but at the end of the day, it's wonderful to see babies being born, and I want my children to participate in a society where that happens and is normalized rather than an anti-natal hedonist death zone dystopia. Most of the left doesn't seem to share this sentiment.
The Griesing iarticle is just so bad, man. I mean titanically. Men and boys are failing to launch so the plan is to glamorize being a guidance counselor so boys and men don’t like Trump. I’m not making that up. I think the guys heart is in the right place, but he’s what happens when you read the Atlantic over too long a period of time.
For all Christians who practice their faith, the answer should basically be YES. Marrying young is a good guard against fornication, contraception, cohabitation, IVF and abortion.
Quite a shame that very few Christian communities in the USA provide social and practical help to ensure those between 16-25 can marry and commence adulthood in durable marriages that lead to straightforward family formation.
Fairly hard to have clear marriage norms in a culture/country steeped in ideas of negative liberty. May we turn the corner very soon!
When one talks about "young" marriages how "young" are we talking? I'm old enough (58) to recall from my late youth when it was still fairly normal for young people who weren't going to college or the military would marry maybe a two or three years after high school. But with just one possible exception (people I lost touch with) every marriage in which one or both of the partners was younger than 25 ended in divorce.
Even the Middle Ages had the proverb "Marry in haste, repent at leisure".
The global nature of the fertility decline adds to the theory of memetic parenting desire being a key factor.
That theory is basically that the desire for children among women is less a product of an inborn drive or grand life plan and more a product of seeing happy moms and cute kids around you and deciding you'd like to live that life too. It's a more important version of a woman choosing a new dress based on what she sees other women wearing.
That's not 100% of the explanation, policies and media and culture and stuff are there too. But there's no other factor/theory I know of that can easily cover the way this phenomenon is so cross cultural.
Population control is the most devastating idea in human history. Counting abortion, it must have claimed more human lives than all warfare in recorded history combined.
There's a lot of things causing the decline: wealth, over-education, environmental, health, economic, secularism, etc. And in this perfect storm of causes, there exists global propaganda so thorough that to even point out the problem invites self-righteous sneers and anger.
Truly a diabolical scheme of great success...
I have to admit I just don’t understand anti-natalism, whether passive or active. I always imagined myself being a parent, wish I had more kids than I do, and sat through our primary school’s annual musical recently even though none of my children were in the thing just because it’s amazing to watch this young community grow.
Really good reporting from the New Yorker on SK fertility. The topic seems to be done to death, but this piece went deeper. It also really highlighted how much anti-natalism is an absolute bummer.
We can make all the logical arguments in the world for pro-natalism, but at the end of the day, it's wonderful to see babies being born, and I want my children to participate in a society where that happens and is normalized rather than an anti-natal hedonist death zone dystopia. Most of the left doesn't seem to share this sentiment.
It’s basically the pacifist variant of wanting humanity to end. That’s why it strikes me as basically demonic, even if not intentionally so.
The Griesing iarticle is just so bad, man. I mean titanically. Men and boys are failing to launch so the plan is to glamorize being a guidance counselor so boys and men don’t like Trump. I’m not making that up. I think the guys heart is in the right place, but he’s what happens when you read the Atlantic over too long a period of time.
“Would You Have Rather Married Young?”
For all Christians who practice their faith, the answer should basically be YES. Marrying young is a good guard against fornication, contraception, cohabitation, IVF and abortion.
Quite a shame that very few Christian communities in the USA provide social and practical help to ensure those between 16-25 can marry and commence adulthood in durable marriages that lead to straightforward family formation.
Fairly hard to have clear marriage norms in a culture/country steeped in ideas of negative liberty. May we turn the corner very soon!