Transgender ideology is a kind of anthropology. That is, it's a way to look at what the definition of a human being is.

Dr. Scott Stigemeyer, author of our book of the month for February, responding to transgenderism in light of God's word.

So it's very inward looking to try to know what you are rather than identifying your maleness or femalness based on your biology,

which is objective.

Learn more about responding to transgenderism in light of God's word at Issuesetc.org.

Everyone is noticing this, that young people, people in their early and even in their late 20s, they're not having as much sex in a hookup culture, and they're not dating.

And apparently they don't know how to date.

How much of this is due to the isolation that's created by social media and how much of

it is just due to the fact that maybe they lack the confidence to approach the opposite

sex.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to discuss the dating recession, Tim Gagline, Vice President of Government and External Relations at Focus on the Family in Washington, D.C.

He formerly served as the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison for President George W. Bush.

He's author of several books, including Stumbling Toward Utopia

and How We Can Revive the American Dream in a Recent Column, titled Why Young Adults

Need Dating 101. Tim, welcome. It's great to be with you, Todd. What is the dating recession?

Well, the dating recession is a measurable chasm in this generation, young people who do not seem to have any experience dating members of the opposite sex.

It's hard to believe because many baby boomers and older came up, as they say, in a culture where dating was kind of part of

the late teenage scene and certainly via often the very early college scene. But we have actually

moved away from that paradigm and it's become a very serious concern in this part of the early

21st century what is the real cause many people would say well it's an

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