Sam Roberts, writing for the NY Times, breaks down a study of men and women ages 15 to 44 performed by the National Center for Health Statistics using 2002 data from the National Survey of Family Growth. The study found that cohabitation (living together with a sexual partner of the opposite gender) is now an experience of over 60% of women in their thirties. This percentage doubled from 1987 to 2002 (so it might be even higher now). Roberts reports that "half of couples who cohabit marry within three years, the study found. If both partners are college graduates, the chances improve that … [Read more...] about Co-Habitation Before Marriage Increases Divorce Rate
Archives for March 2010
Gene Veith on Immorality Often Preceding “Intellectual” Apostasy
It is often the case that moral decline paves the way for the intellectual abandonment of the Christian faith. In Loving God With All Your Mind, Gene Veith unpacks a common observation:A young man is raised in a Christian home and has some measure of belief in Christ. He then becomes involved in some sort of overt sin. This can be any sin—pride, covetousness, addiction, dishonoring of parents, worldliness. It is often a sexual sin. He has the honesty and presence of mind to realize that this favorite sin is incompatible with the Christian faith. He has the moral sensitivity to experience … [Read more...] about Gene Veith on Immorality Often Preceding “Intellectual” Apostasy
Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions
Reading through Sowell's Intellectuals and Society is reminding me of an interview that Dr. Sowell did about a previous book he authored entitled A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. Among other fascinating points, Sowell explains the difference between interests and visions. Here is the interview: … [Read more...] about Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions
What Will Replace Behemoth State University?
A provocative article in Public Discourse by Dr. Robert C. Koons on the large state university model, from which many students receive their college education (and from which I received my graduate education in engineering). Koons makes the point that "New technological developments and pressing national needs suggest that the future of higher education may be one friendlier to the classical tradition of liberal education." An excerpt: As Babbitt observed, the superficial tensions between the “two cultures” of scientific pragmatism and romantic individualism merely disguise their more … [Read more...] about What Will Replace Behemoth State University?