Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

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

While much of the South was under deadly conditions last week and frigid temps and snow,

the KFC YUM Center in Louisville, quite a hub for sports and concerts,

thought the most important thing was to warn against regretful pregnancies, posting this on X, quote,

nine months from now you could be at a concert or changing a diaper, make good decisions, this snowstorm, end quote.

And that's only more evidence that the Heritage Foundation's recent report, saving America by saving the family, a foundation

for the next 250 years, could not have come at a better time. As far back as Aristotle, the family

has been understood as the most natural of all human associations and an essential pillar of civilization.

Chuck Colson described it this way and how now shall we live. Quote,

nearly every civilization has protected the family, both legally and socially, for it is the

institution that propagates the human race and civilizes children. The contemporary systematic

deconstruction of the oldest, most basic social institution is a prime cause of the social chaos in America in recent decades."

And that description has certainly aged well. The deconstruction of the family was not accidental.

Many progressive voices have called for transgressing traditional family structures and gender norms.

Academic and author Gloria Watkins, for example, argued the family is not a safe space.

Ideas like hers have permeated schools and institutions and therefore the worldviews of many.

In a press release that announced this new report, authors Roger Severino, J. Richards, Emma Waters, Delano Squires, Rachel

Sheffield, and Robert Rector declared this, quote,

The State of the American Family is in crisis, with a low marriage rate, a low fertility

rate, and an epidemic of broken homes.

Without the formation and stability of families, America will not survive.

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