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Breakpoint

More Men Than Women Want Kids

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

The unsustainable trend of absolute autonomy as the meaning of life.

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With a

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point look at culture from a Christian worldview.

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I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:04.6

According to a recent study by Pew research, young men are now more likely than

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young women to say they want children.

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Specifically, 57% of young men compared to only 45% a minority of young women.

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Now on one hand this could indicate that more young men are now pushing back against the cultural

0:19.6

stereotypes of being forever boys content to play video games forever and live at home and not make much of their lives.

0:25.0

On the other hand, a culture in which less than half of young women aspire to have families,

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well that's troubling indeed, not to mention unsustainable.

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And this is yet another example where the bad ideas about self,

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others in society that emerge from the very bad idea of absolute autonomy

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as the meaning of life leads to a world of victims.

0:43.2

A better future will require both women and men

0:46.1

to embrace God's design that it's good for both us

0:49.7

and his world.

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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

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