A journalist recently asked: “When they become adults, what will be the biggest problem facing today’s kids?”
I answered: “That many, if not most of them, even those growing up in two-parent homes, are not developing a functional sense of what is truly meant by ‘marriage’ and, therefore, ‘family.’”
How’s that? Today’s all-too-typical child is prevented from learning what marriage is all about by well-intentioned parents who rarely act from within the roles of husband and wife; rather, they act almost exclusively from within the roles of mother and father. This is, after all, the new American ideal, based in large part on the post-1960s notion that the more attention you pay to, the more involved you are with, and the more you do for your child, the better a parent you are.
