In today’s world we are constantly being bombarded with negative messages regarding family life. “It isn’t worth it”, “there’s no point”, “marriage isn’t important”, “you don’t have to be married to have kids”, “non-traditional families are better than traditional families”, “marriage is no longer sacred”, “marriage is no longer between a man and a woman.” These, along with many other messages that are constantly being advertised to people of today’s society are demeaning the sanctity of marriage.

So why are all these negative messages being sent out into society? Why is marriage not very important to today’s generation? Well it isn’t any wonder that the youth of today aren’t excited to get married considering what the media is advertising as “acceptable human behavior”.  It is no surprise when we see couples “hooking up” in one-night stands, moving in together when things get “serious”, having children on accident and either getting married or breaking up because of it, and getting a divorce as soon as things start to get difficult or are no longer “fun” anymore.  Some recent trends in our society that marks a great decline in marriage and relationships include the following: secular beliefs that having more children destroys families, drop in fertility rate, more women entering the workforce- delaying motherhood or reassigning responsibility to other institutes, increase in cohabitating couples and single mothers, decline in marriage rates, etc. To put it bluntly, less people are getting married, and if they are getting married they aren’t getting married until later, and not having many kids when they do. Children deserve more. The world deserves more. We deserve more.