The head of the Beverly LaHaye Institute says a recent report on the number of unwed mothers highlights a problem over 40 years in the making.
According to a recent report on U.S. births, the number of babies born to unwed mothers is sharply rising. Currently the rate stands at about 40 percent. An Associated Press report quotes one of the researchers as saying the rise is due to the amount of women who believe they do not have to live under the same rules as their parents.
Janice Crouse of the Beverly LaHaye Institute and Concerned Women for America contends the problem goes back to a mindset that took root in the 1960s.
“I think we really have a challenge on our hands because so many young people today do think that being married is old-fashioned. They think that the idea that a women needs a man is old-fashioned,” she notes. “I think what we have to do is face some reality.”
That reality, she believes, is the discovery that when women “sleep around” with multiple partners, they find it harder to bond in a committed relationship. Crouse says that the value of abstinence until marriage needs to be taught at a young age, and she encourages the church to step up to the plate in this regard.
