The American family is failing. It isn’t difficult to understand why, though it may not be popular to discuss. The family, as the basic unit of society, is fundamentally rooted in or founded upon the institution of marriage. But this institution has become diluted and degraded over the years, yielding disastrous results.

Birth rates are crucial to a nation’s survival, of course, but they alone will not suffice if the family itself ... collapses.
Social media influencer Ashley St. Clair recently announced that she and tech billionaire Elon Musk have a five-month-old child together, although the two are not married. Musk has over a dozen children with at least four different women. While it is commendable that Musk promotes raising birth rates and is frequently photographed carrying his children at Mar-a-Lago or the White House, the tech scion has not built a family. A family requires a mother and a father, a husband and a wife.
In 2024, only 47 percent of households in the U.S. were led by a married couple. While this is marginally higher than the all-time-low of 2022, when 46.8 percent of households were led by a married couple, it’s a far cry from the high of 1949, when nearly 79 percent of U.S. households were led by a married couple. Divorce rates, of course, are a factor, but divorce rates have reached a record 50-year-low.
The issue is that the marriage rate has also hit a 50-year-low. In 1970, just over 75 women per 1,000 unmarried women got married. That figure has been declining ever since, bottoming out at 28 marriages per 1,000 married women in 2021 and rising to just over 30 as of the end of 2022. In other words, fewer and fewer couples are getting married. This happens to coincide with a trend of sexlessness among young Americans.
Over the past decade, a growing number of American adults aged 22 to 34 are simply not having monogamous sex. According to the Institute for Family Studies, the case is “not that a small number of men are having sex with more a...