America’s Shocking Marriage and Childbirth Collapse Won’t Recover Without One Change

When Romance Disappears From Human Existence, Is Life Worth Living?

Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--February 23, 2026

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In perhaps the most tragic development of America’s last century, marriage is largely abandoned, while childbirth rates crater, and countless youth reject a Christian theory of life. The most trenchant change over the last century is the disappearance of the notion humans are made in God’s image and that our purpose on earth is to Be Fruitful and Multiply. Further, that humans cannot follow God’s mission to create and replicate. Therefore, humans dropping out of the divine mission are inevitably lost and depressed. Currently, more Americans are single than married! See USA FACTS.

God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and increase in number;fill the earth and subdue it.”Genesis 1:28

Side effects of abandoning marriage include the catastrophic single-mother poverty rates, as disrespect blindly drenches bachelors. For, incipient feminism results in a mindless unigender struggle for power as traditional families perish in an icy sea of societal contempt. This caustic brew has effectively deracinated traditional feminine theories of life. Yet, more than anything, human loneliness is the effect.

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