With a woman a look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with

The Point. For a lot of people, writes Angela Chin in the Atlantic, sibling bonds are the longest

relationship of our lives. We know siblings before we meet our partners and before we have

our own kids, and we know them after our parents die. Some research even suggests that siblings

have a higher impact than parents on whether a teen does alcohol or drugs.

Another study found that subjects who had conflict or distance in their relationships

with siblings before age 20 were more likely to be depressed at age 50.

What G. K. Chesterton once wrote about neighbors also describes siblings.

Quote, we make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.

Hence he comes to us clad in all the careless terrors of nature.

He's as strange as the stars, as reckless and indifferent as the rain, and of course the fewer children that Western couples have, the fewer siblings will be in the world.

And that will be a poorer world indeed.

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