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What we've lost (8): Marriage

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The past 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost.

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“You go on an online app, and the person you’re talking to could be dating three other people at the same time but you can’t say anything because that would be moralizing, you can’t base it on God, because that would be ridiculous, and you can’t base it on tradition, because that would be weird, and so it is just chaos out there.” – Freya India, author of Girls

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Chaos, indeed. Freya India is precisely the kind of person the sexual revolution was supposed to have liberated: young, raised secular and formed by today’s liberal culture. Instead, she’s written a book documenting her generation’s quiet misery. Her experience embodies the sexual revolution’s promise and price: casual sex framed as liberation, commitment cast as confinement, and a generation raised amid divorce and pornography – with little moral guidance beyond the fleeting pursuit of “authentic” self-expression.

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She speaks for many. Across the western world, marriage rates are plummeting, fertility is perilously low, and loneliness and depression rampant. But it need not be this way. Never has there been such robust data on the benefits of marriage and family for mothers, fathers, and children........

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