U.S. Leads World in Single-Parent Homes

“A new study showing the United States has the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households is being called a ‘national tragedy’ by one sociologist. The Pew Research Center study of 130 countries and territories shows that 23 percent of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults--more than three times the global average of 7 percent. Children in European countries are generally more likely to live in single-parent homes than those in Asia, but still less likely than children in the U.S. The percentages for the United Kingdom (21 percent), France (16 percent) and Germany (12 percent) are all lower than the U.S.”

“National Tragedy,” Christian Headlines, Dec. 17 2019

CONCLUDING NOTE: The breakup of the American home is a product of the pop/hip-hop culture with its me first philosophy, no-fault divorce, and the welfare state, among other things. The most fundamental cause is the apostasy of America’s churches. Even the most “fundamentalist” typically are not building strong Christian homes through producing fathers who are the spiritual heads, mothers who are keepers, and children who are properly disciplined and discipled. (For more on this see Keeping the Kids: How to Keep the Children from Falling Prey to the World and The Discipling Church: The Church That Will Stand until Jesus Comes, available from www.wayoflife.org.)

(Friday Church News Notes, January 24, 2020, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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