With a

one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

South Korea is considering offering families quote-unquote baby bonuses up to $70,000

a child to help break its fertility bust. The country's total fertility rate is the lowest

in the world. And in fact, almost every country in the developed world currently has birth

rates well below replacement rate. Many of them have tried and failed to offer things like tax incentives designed to stop population decline.

But it fails because, as family policy scholar Patrick Brown put it,

nations can't buy their way out of a cultural shift.

You see, this is not at root a policy problem or economic can't buy their way out of a cultural shift.

You see, this is not at root a policy problem or economic problem,

it's a worldview problem.

The cultural shift in views not only about children and parenting,

but more fundamentally, about marriage and sex.

Marriage is now viewed as a capstone rather than a foundation of life, and sex is viewed as recreational

instead of procreation.

In the words of Patrick Brown, anyone concerned about low fertility needs to be concerned first and

foremost about the decline of marriage. I'm John Stone Street.