more men are choosing to be single dads we've heard a single mother by choice but now we have

single father by choice american gen ziers and millennials are dying at two point six times the

rate of other rich nations what's going on and what should we make of Costco wholesale's decision not to sell

the abortion pill in any of its pharmacies? These are the stories we'll discuss today, and we will

also address some of your questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell, and filling in for Scott Ray,

back is Rick Langer. This is a Think Biblical Weekly Cultural Update,

brought to by Talba School Theology, Biola University. Rick, we're going to dive right in,

but first off, thanks for coming back. Hey, so glad to be back with you, Sean. It's wonderful

to check in again here. Yeah, I'm super intrigued with your take on these stories. So this first one is from the

Atlantic and the title is the growing cohort of single dads by choice. Now, this article walks

through about a man who started in his 40s who chose to be a single dad and at 49 became a parent.

Now he's living in North Carolina with a seven-year-old son and a daughter who's almost two.

The population, it seems, is growing of dads who are intentionally choosing to be fathers

and they're not married.

They cite a University of Cambridge psychologist in this article that says before the millennium,

the turn of the millennium, single dads by choice were virtually unheard of.

This is a new phenomena, arguably so. Now, some family planning professionals in this

article make the claim that the coronavirus kind of tip this off in particular. So we've seen

this trend growing since the turn of the millennium. But the coronavirus made people say,

all right, what's most invaluable in life?

And there's growing men saying, I want to be a dad.

This article says, the more single dads you see around you, the more likely you might be

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