According to the Census Bureau, for the first time in history, less than half of all Americans now live in married-couple households – vs. almost 80% in 1950. This does not bode well for the future, especially for the younger generation.
Considering our narcissistic lifestyles over the last several decades, Linda Chavez at Townhall.com should have titled her article “Putting Children Last” instead of “Putting Children First”.
 

 
As long as our contemporary culture views selfishness as a higher good than selflessness, this trend will continue. Despite the futility, and despite the facts:

Myriad studies have documented that children who grow up without two parents are more likely to do worse in school, drop out, commit crimes, and earn less during their lifetimes than those who are raised with both parents, even adjusting for economic status and race. They are also far less likely to have stable relationships and marriages as adults, thus fueling the cycle of marriage breakdown.

And even:

According to researchers Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, the children of divorce had an average lifespan five years shorter than those whose parents stayed married.

How have Americans become so self-centered and irresponsible that we refuse to value our children – their emotional, spiritual and physical well-being – over our own temporary gratification?

Not anymore. Now – if it’s June, it must be ‘LGBT Pride Month’.
Thank-you President Obama. Our first post-Christian president has decreed the month of June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” This would be the same guy who brushes aside the rule of law by instructing the Dept. of Justice to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act. Just not a law he could get behind. (Never mind that one of the executive branches’ primary duties is law enforcement – not law interpretation.)
 
Well you’ll have to pardon me Mr. Obama if I don’t join in your Rainbow celebration.
 
For me, June is still the traditional month of weddings. And as a Christian, I only acknowledge the original version of marriage as ordained by God. From “now until the end.”
 

For a man shall leave his mother;
And a woman leave her home.
And they shall travel on to where,
The two shall be as one.
As it was in the beginning,
Is now, until the end.
Woman draws her life from man,
And gives it back again.
And there is love.

 
Related:
Objections fly with rainbow flag
What same-sex “marriage” has done to Massachusetts

 
Delaware Park vandals do ‘thousands’ in damage.

…a group of more than 100 teenagers and young adults who went on a destructive spree Saturday night, according to officials from Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy…

 
When I saw this story in the Buffalo News last week I couldn’t help but notice the contrast with the Carthage H.S. kids who donated their graduation celebration fund to the Joplin tornado victims. I’m sure the liberal psychologists can reason away the destructive behavior of a bunch of young thugs; not enough self-esteem, not enough tax dollars spent on education, too many trans-fats, whatever is the latest excuse du jour.
Forget that blather. The simple truth is that one group was taught that character counts, was raised with traditional values – and the other was nurtured on nihilism.
 
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sow, that will he also reap. ~ Galatians 6:7