The decline in marriage and birth rates has reached a crisis level.
That is why the leader of the Commonwealth Policy Center says the organization decided to recently hold a Family and Cultural Renewal conference on the campus of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
“Serious decline in marriage formation and natality below replacement levels indicate a society in decline,” said CPC Executive Director Richard Nelson. “The Family and Cultural Renewal conference cast a vision for pastors and policymakers to elevate marriage and family to the central and restorative role it can play in our society.”
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The event, co-sponsored by the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, featured prominent speakers who outlined how the marriage and birth rate crisis began and the steps necessary to reverse it.
“Ideology that distorts biological realities of man and woman as anthropological categories and the imposition of a new understanding of marriage has certainly done harm to our society,” Nelson said.
“Younger generations are told that to be happy one must embrace the self, forgo marriage, and that children are a burden. Yet instead of delivering happiness, younger generation face isolation and unhappiness at unprecedented levels.”
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Lawrence Smith and originally published by Kentucky Today.
