Why Women Can’t Find Good Husbands | Timothy Goeglein
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
“We are definitively, with no debate, in a demographic winter in the history of the United States of America. We have never had a lower marriage rate, and we’ve never had a lower fertility rate,” says Timothy Goeglein, vice president of External and Government Relations at Focus on the Family.
Goeglein is the author of multiple books, including most recently “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family.”
In our interview, we explore how America ended up where it is today. Why are millions of prime-age men neither working nor seeking a job? Why do women find it so hard to find a good partner? What is the antidote to America’s high rates of suicide, drug overdose, pornography addiction, and family dysfunction?
“The biggest single challenge facing America in its 250th year … is a spiritual crisis of a pretty substantial order,” Goeglein said. He believes we are witnessing in America “the practical ramifications of destroying an objective moral code … of saying you can’t really define good and evil.”
Luckily, this is not the whole story. In this interview, Goeglein explains the signs of hope he sees and what he calls “a quiet Renaissance.”
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| 0:00.0 | We are definitively with no debate in a demographic winter. |
| 0:05.5 | In the history of the United States of America, we have never had a lower marriage rate |
| 0:11.2 | and we've never had a lower fertility rate. |
| 0:14.1 | Timothy Gaglien is vice president at Focus on the Family and author of multiple books, |
| 0:19.4 | including most recently What Really Matters, |
| 0:22.1 | Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family. |
| 0:25.4 | Destroying an objective moral code has real ramifications. |
| 0:30.3 | We like to think our society's moving forward, but are we really? |
| 0:34.6 | What is the antidote to America's high rates of suicides, |
| 0:38.1 | drug overdose, pornography addiction, and family dysfunction? |
| 0:42.2 | As George Orwell said, that the first duty of an intelligent man |
| 0:45.8 | is to restate the obvious. |
| 0:47.3 | And I think we have arrived at the generation |
| 0:49.9 | where, in defense of the permanent things, |
| 0:52.3 | we have to restate the obvious. |
| 0:53.9 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
| 0:59.5 | Timothy Gagling, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:03.2 | It's great to be with you. A real pleasure. |
| 1:05.8 | Let me start with a quote from the foreword to your excellent book. |
| 1:12.6 | It's not about creating a Christian nation. It's about returning to the things that made this nation stable, secure, and free |
| 1:18.6 | in the first place. These are things that benefit everyone in a pluralistic society, |
| 1:22.6 | whether they be people of faith or people of no faith at all. |
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