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How Marriage Is Helping Us Through COVID

Aug 12, 2020John StonestreetCOVID-19, MarriageCOVID-19, Family, Marriage

*John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.*

National Review recently pointed to new research that suggests married couples are best positioned to weather the emotional and financial storms of the COVID-19 pandemic. It sounds like common sense: Married people are much less likely to report feeling lonely or isolated (despite the social distancing) and are also more financially stable than those living on their own. They also tend to have wider family networks to rely on in times of trouble.

Of course, none of this suggests that married people are morally superior to single people, or that marriage is a guarantee for success. What it does reinforce, yet again, is the truth that marriage is a good thing, not a tool of patriarchal oppression or a loss of freedom, as we so often hear. And it suggests that the decline of marriage is not a healthy trend.

And, this study should remind us married folks to look out for friends, neighbors and family who live alone.

Massachusetts City Opts to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships

Jul 17, 2020Jerry CoxMarriageMarriage, Polyamory, Polygamy

Last month the Somerville, Massachusetts City Council voted unanimously to amend its Domestic Partnership ordinance to recognize polyamorous relationships — relationships consisting of more than just two people.

The city council member who proposed the changes to the ordinances told the rest of the council, “government shouldn’t be defining what a family is, and in fact has done a poor job of it in the past,” according to minutes from June 25 the meeting.

You may recall that the push to legalize same-sex marriage began similarly in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the early 2000s, with same-sex couples receiving varying degrees of recognition through domestic partnership measures.

We have written repeatedly about how same-sex marriage blazes a trail for polygamy and how polygamists are using the same playbook that homosexual activists used 20 years ago.

There are plenty of problems with polygamy, but one of the chief problems is that it hurts children.

Time and time again we’ve seen that the best place for a child is in a stable home with a married mother and father, and that children raised in any other type of home fare worse than those raised by a mom and a dad.

Unfortunately, the needs of children don’t appear to be driving public policy in Somerville, Massachusets.