America, Europe, and beyond have a massive marriage shortage, as young people are not dating as before.

An international business news outlet has been quietly publishing AI-generated articles.

The NFL decides to remove end-racism end zones ahead of the Super Bowl, and a New Zealand

mountain is granted personhood.

These are the stories we'll discuss and we will address some of your questions. I'm your

host, Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblically Weekly

Cultural Update, brought to you by Talbot School Theology, Biola University. Now, Scott, we have

some unique stories this

week. Some people might think, what on earth are you talking about? But here's the key from big

to small, a biblical worldview should shape the way we think about everything, hence the diversity

in topics. Now, this week, this story, we both came across and wanted independently to

cover. I think it's so important and timely. It was in the Atlantic and it's called America's

marriage material shortage. Now let me lay out a little bit of the story that's involved here

to give people a backdrop. But it starts and the author says young people aren't dating anymore.

We see this business-wise dating apps getting less engagement.

And fascinatingly, the share of 12th graders who say they've dated has fallen from about

85% in the 1980s to less than 50% in the early 2020s.

Now, before we go any further, part of this could be that people think about relationships.

They go through a phase of talking as opposed to dating, so I'm somewhat suspect about

those numbers, but let's keep going.

Here's what the author says.

Although I consider the story of declining youth romance important, I don't find it mysterious.

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