(Source: The Heritage Foundation) June 2, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Family and Marriage By Scott E. Yenor, Ph.D. Two incompatible views about marriage are vying for supremacy today in America. The new, reformed view emphasizes companionship, autonomy, and individual self-fulfillment as the chief purposes of marriage. Since the middle of the 20th century, this new view has slowly displaced the view that marriage involves a love centered in no small part around procreation and child-rearing. But no matter how much our contemporary views may wish away the links among sex, procreation, enduring marriage, and raising children, those links persist and will persist. They reveal that...
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