It's Tuesday, November 28, 2003.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Let this data point sink in with you.

It comes down to this. The more wealthy a man is, the more likely he is to be married. The more wealthy a woman is, the less likely

she is to be married. Accordingly, the more wealthy a man is, the more likely

he is to be a father. The more wealthy a woman is, the less likely

she is to be a mother.

Now for Christians, there could hardly be a more significant set of statistics than these because we understand that the family is

the center of human civilization, marriage and the family are the foundations of the entire

culture and what we are looking at here is a development that is entirely new in human history.

Nothing like this has happened in the past. Nothing like this could have happened in the past.

Now on the one hand you see the great divide in our country made very clear by how this data is interpreted. People

looking at this women from the domestic expectation, the expectation that they will be wives and

mothers, they are now liberated.

But Christians have to look at this and say, well, but this could well doom human civilization itself.

This is a very alarming pattern.

The more wealthy a man is, the more likely he is to be a father,

the more wealthy a woman is, the less likely she is to be a mother. Now how has this come about and why are we

talking about it? Well we're talking about it because for Christians this has to be a

matter of tremendous nearly incalculable importance. We're talking about something as basic as marriage, as basic as the family, as basic has the picture of human life.

But we also are talking about it because the data is now coming in and it is pretty overwhelming.

You look at it and the numbers tell us that we have a fall-off in marriage and a fall-off in the

birth rate in this country, both of which are very significant.

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