Broken Homes Need Church Fathers

Almost a quarter of children in the United States live with only one parent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s the world’s highest rate. It’s heart-wrenching; for single-parent homes are connected with higher rates of substance abuse, criminality, suicide, and poverty. If outcome is indicative of oppression, as many claim, then the most oppressive start is single parenthood. Despite this data being well known, almost half of all babies born in the U.S. were born to unmarried women in 2019. ...More than ever, the Church is needed to be a voice of reason, good, clarity, and constancy. Its clergy ought to be speaking on the errors of the day because there are people who have never heard the life-giving messages of the Church. They have never heard the arguments in favor of living celibately until marriage, refusing disordered desires, or the concept of self-denial. It’s too easy to assume that these things are known because we know them ourselves.