America, and every other nation in the world, must robustly regain the long and devastating declines in marriage, fertility and married parenting for its own national growth and vitality. Growth cannot happen without each of these.
And none of this happens unless boy meets girl. There is no alternative hack. So, we must ask, “What is the state of dating today?”
Dillon Burroughs, The Christian Post
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