Pastor Mark here saying thanks for joining me for my podcast. I've been doing this for a very, very,

very long time. I got my cancel card out of the way about a decade ago, which is great. It's like

puberty. You just want to get through it and move on into adulthood. So now I have the great joy

of preaching the Bible and triggering progressive Christians

who need someone to agitate them.

Thank you for joining me and supporting our ministry, and I'd love to get a free gift to you.

So if you do this, I'll get a free book to you.

Number one, leave a five-star review.

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friends, send it to your enemies, send it to your woke family. And if you text me to 9933, that's

99383 with the word podcast. I'll send you a free book. Mark and Grace Triscoll here at Real Marriage

Podcast. I want to have a conversation about a new book.

And if you're a nerd and you want to study marriage and family or you're a pastor, it's super awful.

It's called The Two Parent Privile.

It's by Melissa Kearney, subtitle How Americans Stop Getting Married and Started Falling Behind.

And so this is more of an economic, data-driven approach to marriage and family.

And it looked over the course of a few decades.

So this is a comprehensive, longitudinal study.

And the summary I wanted to share and have a discussion about, it says, here's this summary

from an interview done with the author, the breakdown of marriage and family is the subject.

And it says, children in particular are more likely to experience mental health problems

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